Dumbell Bench is killing my shoulder

[SofaGeorge]

Grod, this may sound stupid... but maybe the bench you are using is too high. I bench heavy with DB's... at least compared to most people. I recently had the experience of switching to a new gym. Their benches are only a couple inches higher than what I'm used to, but that couple inches makes a ton of difference when you are rocking back to get two heavy db's in place. I found that the rock backwards was throwing weight into my rotator cuffs just prior to pressing... not a good thing.

I switched to a lower bench... not even much lower. It helped.

 

[Grod]

My gym just opened up a new facility (40,000 Square feet, wow!) and added a bunch of new equipment including this flat bench. I am going to check that out tonight while hitting legs. Thank you everyone for all of the suggestions.

 

[lemur]

do you train the rotator cuffs? they may just be proportionally weak.

 

[Grod]

Nope, I have never had any shoulder problems therefore I never felt the need. Obviously I was mistaken. I hit the gym today and warmed it up a little, it didn't feel too bad. I am going to rest again tomorrow so I can HOPEFULLY give it a go Friday.

 

[madmatt]

PM's not working!

Grod! FYI... Your PMS are not working. I am the one that droped you a PM about the test/deca cycle.... and was wanting to talk to you more. Why don't you find out what is up and hit me up on my PM. Thanks!