Major shoulder pain while doing bench-please help!

[TN MuscleBear]

I went through the same thing and as other posters have said my response is not what you're going to want to hear. What you need to do is find a chest exercise that doesn't hurt. If you continue to irritate the area, it will never go away. I'm assuming you have a stress strain, since you saw a doc and he said nothing was wrong. Try inclines, declines, or dumbbells. DO NOT DO ANYMORE FLAT BENCHING. If those don't work use the pec deck or cables if is still hurts try some of the machines. It could take a very long while to heal, in my own situation it took almost a year. If you work the area without hurting it, you will heal. The sooner you accept the fact that you have to take a long break from flat benching, the sooner you'll get better.
Genarr3
BTW work the rotator cuffs

You're right...I don't want to hear that. But, if I do not get significant relief from trying some of the other suggestions then I will have no choice.....

Thanks, all for the responses.

 

[The Invisible Man]

I had the same thing happen! I now have to go light when benching and go real slow! Heavy weight mages my shoulder hurt bad. And this has been going on for ove a year!!!

 

[big4life]

Try using db's instead of the bb's.

I had the same problem, and that helped me out.
No more pain.
I'm guessing that using the bar, put my shoulder in an awkward
position.

I know my shoulder does not hurt nearly as bad, still get
a twinge every now and then, but that's it.

 

[BigGuns2]

Bro, anything that hurts like that can't be good! You should stop flat benching for a while and let your body heal. Do you max out everytime you do chest? It is good about every 6 weeks to do a "lighter" work out for your week. This is good for your joints. It sounds like you have muscle problems however. You may want to get a second opinion, you sound like you have a muscle tear of some kind. Good luck to you, hope you recover soon.