Questions tagged [shoulders]
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What exercises can temporarily replace the barbell/dumbbell bench press?
I injured my shoulder rock climbing and I cannot bench press anymore as I get pain in that range of motion. Dumbbells are painful too. I can still overheard press fine, and I can do straight bar dips, ...
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giving the left shoulder a rest. can I train squats and\or the right arm?
Despite being cautious with the bench press I noticed I feel my left shoulder a bit more when I do reverse grip lat pull down as per the picture below.
I was considering training the right arms and\...
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Preventing shoulder pain after weight lifting?
What are the best strategies to reduce the risk of shoulder/back pain after weight lifting?
It doesn't feel the same as soreness, I feel like maybe it's from either poor exercise performance/form or ...
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Muscle imbalance at latissimus dorsi
I am right handed so when I learned a scapular retraction cue, I was able to execute better and more with my right shoulder, and because of that, I exaggerated and overused it with my right shoulder.
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Exercises for an overweight person to decrease weight who is also suffering from back ache due to long sitting hours
So I mostly have to sit at a desk for 13 hours a day, even on weekends (I'm an 18 year old student who is a bit over weight too) because of which I have severe back problems. I want to change this and ...
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Helping ease my back pain when I'm studying 13 hours everyday, even weekends
I am a student and I usually have to sit at my study desk each day including weekdays and weekends for about 13 hours or more. I have a pretty hectic schedule and I sometimes suffer from back pain (...
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Posture and appearance [duplicate]
5’11, 140lbs male.
Rounded and lowered shoulders, rounded upper back, slightly forward neck.
Light Scoliosis and moderate pectus carinatum.
Fall asleep on side, then sleep on stomach.
Many hours ...
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What can I do to work on uneven shoulders / back?
During a bench press, on the way down, my spotters tell me that my barbell is coming down a bit slanted, which I think means that I have uneven shoulders / back.
What can I do instead to correct this?...
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What is this exercise called and what is it's purpose
Referring to the image below, the arm involved in the exercise is bent to 90 degrees throughout the exercise, as if doing hammer curls, only that the arm stays in that position throughout this ...
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Switching rep ranges to improve overhead press?
So I've been plateauing at 135 on ohp recently. Previously I had been starting at a given weight for 3x3 and then slowly working up to 3x5 before upping the weight. However at 135 anytime I get above ...
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Triceps Pushdown - Why Pain in Shoulders [closed]
I was Doing Triceps Pushdown & I am getting more pain in shoulders instead of Triceps, If i put less weights, than i dont get shoulders pain, so is it better to reduce weights or may i continue ...
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High weights at shoulder barbell press
I was attentioned at the gym today by a "gym bro" that doing shoulder presses with the barbell at a total of 50kg barbell + weigths is dangerous and nobody should do it. I am doing 5x5 reps and i find ...
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Do I need to squeeze my back when I am doing overhead(military) shoulder press?
I love overhead(military) shoulder press that activates my shoulder.
But I've found a problem:
If I don't squeeze my back when doing overhead(military) shoulder press, my left shoulder kind of ...
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I started weightlifting more seriously and now my shoulders are popping
I've had small stints of weightlifting my entire life, but recently I've tried to get more serious about it. I started taking supplements, I added more routines, I started following recommended lift ...
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How can i solve my shoulder pain during exercises in gym? [closed]
My name is Aaron, and I'm 23 years old. I've been doing exercises for 1.5 years but I have one problem related to pain.
When I am doing exercise of biceps, my shoulder starts hurting prior to biceps ...
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Triceps/rear delt take over rows
Everytime I row my rear delts and also my long head of the tricep take over the row.
I have also tried dumbbell/cable pull overs and it's the same time thing... my delts and arms get all the action ...
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Can we do pressing movements two days in a row
Currently I am working on Chest & biceps [ Mon ] , Triceps [ Tue ] , Back [ Wed] , Shoulders [ Thu ], Legs [ Fri ] from Mon to friday....
Somewhere i read below :
Try not to do pressing ...
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How do I fix scapular winging? [closed]
I have a winged scapular on my left shoulder blade for many years. I start working out around two years ago. Sometime the winged scapular will disappear and someday it pops out again. I need a solid ...
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Rotator Cuff Training
Should I train my rotator cuff before or after a workout and how many days a week should I train it. Somebody also hit me up with a good routine for the rotator cuff.
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What time shall I eat Protein? (a regular cyclist who wanna gain shoulders)
I'm a little confused due to my situation. I bicycle a lot everyday as a mode of transport, however I do weight training 3 times a week specifically focusing on arms and shoulders.
Overall, I'm new ...
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I can't figure out which muscle is weakest/tight
So I'm a female, age 26, height about 5'5', weight about 116-119 pounds, no medical conditions, no medication, was active in sports and regular exercise from age 11-16.
I have a few problems which ...
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Deadlift/squat: should I spread or pinch together the shoulder blades? What can happen if I got it wrong?
I did squats and deadlifts with my shoulder blades spread (as a trainer told me - every exercise, he says, the shoulder blades should be pushed back spread). That correlates with some weird twitching ...
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Arnold Dumbbell Press mechanism
Why it is beneficial or harmful to rotate my arm at top, if i dont rotate will it impinge any muscle or nerve?
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Identification and effected muscles of excercise
What is this excercise and which muscles it works out?
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Asymmetry in cross body shoulder stretch
I have recently noticed that I have a huge asymmetry in the cross body shoulder stretch. In particular, when stretching the left arm, I can push it to be almost parallel, to my body, while with my ...
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Injury cause in elbow position
I have experienced two injuries:
one doing bent over dumb bell row like this
I got injured when my elbow left contact with my torso and flared up outside and got sharp pain in my shoulder.
Other ...
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How to avoid little red dots when doing hand stand pushups?
I like doing hand stand pushups cause its a full shoulder workout, but I tend to get little red dots on my face -- a result of pressure and bursting tiny capillaries apparently.
Has anyone figured ...
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“Triceps” dips completely alleviate shoulder pain?
I'm no expert in glenohumeral anatomy, but I've noticed that if I do "triceps-style" bar dips, I have no pain nor impingement in the shoulder joint whatsoever. This is the version of dips where the ...
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Lower trapezius usefulness?
Almost every back anatomy diagram I see draws a giant trapezius muscle across the upper back. I work out frequently and I would say (for my body type/size) I have rather large "upper" traps, but have ...
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Side laying flexion: what muscles worked?
I had a case of shoulder impingement a while back and it got 85–90% better with physio, but then found this exercise online which appears to be helping to finish my recovery:
It really feels like it'...
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Do prone raises work the Supraspinatus?
I'm thinking of Prone Y/I Raises in particular.
I think I once read somewhere that having a 120 degree abduction is most effective for engaging the supraspinatus, though I'm not sure how true this is....
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Muscle helping Arm lowering
What muscle are worked if I lower my arm? It can't be the deltoid, as front and lateral raise use deltiod.
But lets say I am upside down and lower my arm, which muscle I will work out? Just like ...
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rounded shoulders in planks
Recently , I record my self doing planks and squats. After I was supposing I am doing them right, I detect that:
during planks: my sholders are directed down and they are making my upper back to ...
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Best way to fix rounding shoulders? [duplicate]
I recently started a programming job and have notice my shoulders have started to round. I try to sit with good posture but my posture breaks after a certain time and I don't notice it.
I workout 5 ...
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Dumb bell pullover muscles
I am doing dumb bell pullover as shown in excercise
Except that i lie down completly on bench, when I bring DB up i kinda feel twitch around my delts , is it normal , does shoulder also involve in ...
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Shoulder shrug with weight limitation
I am doing shoulder shrugs, I can do 66 pounds, but that is max weight available.
My question is can i use barbell like dumbbells and do side shrugs or does weight being far away from center will ...
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Backpack carrying problem resolution excercise
I usually go for hikes and I have one problem, that my shoulder hurts after a few meters with a heavy back pack, of about 25 pounds, on my back. Which muscles and exercises should I focus on to ...
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Shoulder mobility exercises cause pain
I've been rehabbing a case of shoulder impingement for several months now (with a few trips to the physio). The actual impingement feels like it is now gone, but I'm having a few mobility issues in ...
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Shoulder training technique
Why elbows have to be bent for shoulder exercises like front and lateral dumbbell raise?
Does it harm or benefit any other muscle?
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Getting started on shoulders
I started to gym around 4 months ago - I love the experience and the feeling. One problem I have is that I feel my shoulders are substantially weaker than my other groups - i.e. they limit how ...
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Squats preventing shoulder impingement healing? [closed]
I’ve been rehabbing a case of shoulder impingement for several months now… I've had a couple visits to the physio since being injured and it feels like it is almost better. Originally I couldn’t do ...
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Difference between 3x5 Over head press and 3x12 shoulder press?
I've been doing following the Push Pull Legs (PPL) plan, In my Push workout routine, there is shoulder press with 3 sets of 12 reps. However, the instructions say that I can alternate this with Over ...
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Shoulder muscle problem [closed]
I got my right shoulder tear while doing a Bicep Preacher exercise. I have been off from the gym since February. I have pain only during motion, but after two months, I think I have the same intensity ...
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left and right shoulders are asymmetrical
My left and right shoulders are asymmetrical. My left shoulder seems attached with my upper chest perfectly whereas my right shoulder and upper chest has a gap between them. How can i make them equal? ...
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How should the shoulder blades move when swimming breast stroke?
My physiotherapist has told me that slouching for 20 years was the main cause of my shoulder injury last year, and that I had to stand up straight from now on, and only lift a weight if my shoulders ...
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What is this part of my shoulder called?
I am wondering if the red dot in the picture I took is my rotator cuff or what that part of my shoulder is called. I have been having a little pain in that spot.
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External rotation exercises, when is it enough?
I usually train rear delts with the following exercises:
face pulls
pec deck (facing in)
one arm cable using the pulley
At the end I do some internal and external rotation exercises to prevent ...
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Do handstand push-ups hit all the three shoulder heads?
I started working out with calisthenics recently, and I want to workout my shoulders using only hand stand push-ups. Will that be enough to have good looking strong shoulders?
Thanks.
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Shoulder strength imbalance after injury [closed]
A few months ago I injured my right shoulder (collar bone area) playing contact sport.
I haven't played or done much training at all since then. I joined a gym recently and they did a body ...
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Shoulder press exercise - Useful to do more than one type?
Today, a man in the gym told me that it is useless to do more than one type of shoulder press exercises. I do two exercises, one with dumbbells and one with a lift. Is he right or not?
