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working on a new routine

I would suggest this:
1 week off from upper body. Pretty much every lift for upperbody requires some sort of movement in the shoulder. Even stuff that doesn't immediately hurt it you should miss for a week.

Squats may feel uncomfortable too if you grip the bar narrow so either space your grip right out for now or just front squat for the next couple of weeks

during this week off use ice and heat. Get an ice pack and put it on your shoulder over the area that hurts. Run a hot bath. After 15mins of ice submerge the shoulder is the bath for 15mins. Get out and do 15 more mins of ice followed by another 15mins in the bath. The idea here is the ice reduces any swelling or inflamation and the heat increases blood flow. Do this as often as you can before bed for the first week.

After 1 week off start doing LIGHT lifts for the shoulder area. Sets of 30 with the smallest weights you can use. The goal here is to get blood to the area and work through the full ROM of the shoulder without it being heavy enough to cause damage. Other than this you could start some pulling movements that don't aggregate the area but don't go too heavy or use a ballistic style of movement.

By the end of the second week it should start feeling better and from there you can start to implement chest/shoulder lifts back in (take it easy at first though)

problem was probably caused due to dangerous bench form. Diesel crew have a good Instructional bench video on YouTube, check it out.

It's imperative that you let this heal. If you make it worse it will force you to stop training upper body for months or even worse it might never get better. Look at burnthiscorpse he has shoulder problems and has had to have surgery and take 6+ months off training.

This advice I've given is based on what worked to help me come back from injuries in the past. My shoulder flared up a few weeks ago but I caught it just in time with ice+heat, stretching and a little time off and now it's much better.

That's all I can recomend for a shoulder that hurts maybe a joint or maybe a muscle in a place you can't describe caused by something you army aware of lol.
 
thanks EM- i'll definitely give that a shot. Would you recommend getting rid of all my back work too? For the next week, would you recommend i only train legs, abs, arms?
 
Yeah for a week drop all upperbody. It's not worth the risk IMO and like I said almost all upperbody work moves the shoulder joint in some way. Besides you said bad machines hurt your shoulder.

Legs (including deadlifts) and abs for the next week. No arms.

start the ice/heat asap

progression should be:
ice/heat, rest
add light mobility stuff
add light stretching and some light rehab work
start light pressing work
add weight to presses

I found with most injuries they only started to really improve when I gave everything a break. My back injuries and shoulder injury started getting better once I stopped the active recovery I was doing and let them totally rest.
 
Yeah for a week drop all upperbody. It's not worth the risk IMO and like I said almost all upperbody work moves the shoulder joint in some way. Besides you said bad machines hurt your shoulder.

Legs (including deadlifts) and abs for the next week. No arms.

start the ice/heat asap

progression should be:
ice/heat, rest
add light mobility stuff
add light stretching and some light rehab work
start light pressing work
add weight to presses

I found with most injuries they only started to really improve when I gave everything a break. My back injuries and shoulder injury started getting better once I stopped the active recovery I was doing and let them totally rest.

alright thanks.... so i'll alternate between working quads/calves/abs and hammies/calves/abs for the next week or so.
 
i woke up early this morning and decided to do fasted cardio. Fuck am i outa running shape! can't wait to get back to running this summer. also didn't have shin splints like i normally have which was good, but my shoulder did hurt after i ran. it does hurt like that sometimes though even when my shoulder doesn't hurt so i don't think it's anything to worry about.
 
did squats today and did a LOT of dynamic stretching.... however, my quads still felt very uncomfortable at the bottom of the squat so i stopped after 3 sets. Any ideas why? Maybe because i haven't squatted in a while? I'm going to make another thread for this too. My quads also felt uncomfortable during leg press so i did some calves and cut my workout short.
 
it's definitely my deltoid that is hurt.... and it's very minor. I did chest/tris today and i did very very light work on my chest- Flat DB Pressed 40s for probably 5-7 sets and supersetted with different exercises. I narrowed down the only exercises i can do for chest to cables and flat DB bench. I tried decline DB, flat BB, (skipped incline because i knew it'd be bad), closed flat BB, dips, and a couple machines. Triceps went well, and at the end of my workout i did light DB presses, lat raises, and front raises. My deltoid only hurt about 10-20 seconds after each set of chest, and the pain was minor. My guess was that it was a muscle imbalance after i examined it more carefully, and i took my brother to his neurologist yesterday who also agreed with me. I'm going to keep going light until my deltoid can catch up. This makes sense since i've stupidly been neglecting working out my shoulders for a while. Finished up with calves and abs, and also did fasted cardio again this morning. Time to get my out of shape ass back in shape these next 3 months home!!!! motivated as shit. Lets do this
 
i did fasted cardio again today.... been trying to pace myself, ran a 7:53 mile yesterday and 7:19 (give or take a few seconds) today. hoping to keep improving.... then ate and did back/bis. stupid idea to do fasted cardio before back/bis, whatever though it went pretty well. My body is more than strong enough to DL 275x4, but my grip was slipping on the last 2 reps. Going to work my grip hard on leg days so it will hopefully begin to get stronger. gonna do farmers walks with a trap bar and DBs, then relatively light static holds.

Deadlift
245x4
255x4
265x4
275x4

DB Row
50x10
60x10
70x8
80x6
75x6
65x8
55x10

then did hypers and tested what i could do for my back without shoulder pain-- basically anything besides pullups, but i'm going to just stick to some light sets of cable rows because i think DB Rows will suffice for now and i don't want to fuck anything up.

Also did biceps, but kinda hurt my shoulder too during some sets so i'm going to keep biceps really light and not go up too much to the point where it irritates my shoulder. gonna take 2 days off from everything, then resume on Friday. I'm also anticipating on getting fucked up tonight, so hopefully that will work out.
 
I take it you decided to fuck giving the shoulder a break to recover lol... hows it feeling? have you been ice+heating it?
 
well sorry about the shoulder jdid i hate injuries :( I'm sure it will feel better soon it may just be a mild irritation thing since it's been a while since you've lifted
 
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