The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

You cool kids made it into the gif!

 

Hahaha this is great

 

Hahah. I feel like we should have been the big black guy walking around in the back. Not the fat chick On a scooter.

 

Chick? I thought that was Zach

 

Tren Clen, eat hard

 

Lifting weights is ghey. I don't even lift anyone. #unsubbed

 

https://youtu.be/yV-jQmVUEWk

Here's a link for those of us swole guys that can't low bar. Ive been doing this and it seems to be helping. Also been doing rehab on my rotator cuff muscles which I'm certain was the cause of my shoulder pain , but I was able to do some 3x5 on bench at 185 with some warm ups. I dunno it this helps but I'll keep doing these until I can get into low bar.

Just saw a guy doing 405 high bar. Pretty awesome. At least I have seen it and its good motivation for me.

 

I had rotator cuff surgery about a year ago and I was instructed to stay away from low bar squats as they stretch the rotator cuff leading to joint instability. You essentially want ROM forward with the shoulder more so than the rear.

Just throwing that out there. Insbility to do low bar can mean your shoulder is stable and less prone to injury.

 

I found this guys videos to be informative and helpful in areas:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=84wYwqJRkCo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u70p9Un4MXk

 

I was trying to low bar for a few weeks, then tweaked my shoulder. I'm fairly certain attempting to low bar had something to do with it.

 

Sounds like I'm not the only one recovering from a shoulder injury...
They are pretty inconvenient to say the least! Physical Therapy and doing the home exercises the DPT, PT, PTA tell you to do sure help

 

You have to really make sure your form is correct when lifting. Especially when you're doing overhead exercises.

 

Interesting. I can high bar squat but low bar is still far away from me at this point. I've been working my rotator cuff muscles and doing more back workouts since I feel I was weaker in that area . I believe I hurt my shoulder doing bench (the wrong way) but actually the pain has subsided quiet substantially . I'm not lifting as heavy on bench right now because I want to avoid inflaming my joint before its healed, but I feel like the stretches and the workouts have helped a lot. Also gotta make sure you take them omega3s.

 

Bet that dude passed out right after that thumbnail pic.. Holdin flexin and strainin like a mofo.

 

Possibly. He's pretty shredded though

 

No doubt

 

I had to have surgery because I dislocated my left shoulder twice. The last time was in a car accident in 2015. It left my shoulder stretched out and unstable so essentially had to have it surgically tightened. PT and Doc have drilled it into my head that keep ROM focus on forward movements not behind the head (the shoulder wasn't meant to function like that). The shoulder joint is naturally a horrible joint. It's unstable and unprotected for the most part. Too much ROM leaves it vulnerable to being even more unstable. The looser the joint is the more the rotator cuff has to try to keep everything together and stabilized throughout movements. Small muscles don't do that good of a job.

I take a lot of oils. Fish oil, flax, and extra DHA. Stuff does wonders.

 

Try adding Turmeric/Curcumin and "HA" hyaluronic acid to your stack..



I would argue that what the PT and DOC is saying isn't the case for everyone, maybe people who have already jacked their shoulder to a point where it's not wise to do certain ROM.

Thru many years of training, I've found some things that I believe really help with shoulders and some of the issues associated with them... Not only for myself but many others I've helped as well... For preventing injury and overcoming as well.

It's pretty simple.
I've noticed that when it comes to training/lifting etc..

Most
1. Never warm/stretch their shoulders at all, much less well.
2. Never do but only a couple ROM...

So when they haven't warmed up well, and strengthened only certain muscle groups by limited ROM, they a lot of times subject themselves to injury when they go outside the norm ROM that they've been training and strengthening...
In doing that have a less well rounded strengthened shoulder, so more loads and stresses get put onto the joint/ligaments/tendons etc.. Then snap crackle pop. trip to the doc.

There is a lot of different exercises I've experimented with that have helped, too many to list or explain here.. But by strengthening every ROM you can is part of it.. It doesn't take much weight either.

Like I said, there is obviously cases where someone has injured themselves already where, the PT or DOC understands the specifics of the patient.. Sounds like you may be one of them.. Good luck getting things straightened out.

 

This is true, everyone is different. But I think some people tend to focus too much on unnatural movements and ROM when it comes to the shoulder. For example I see people doing a barbell shoulder press behind their head. The shoulders were not intended to go through that range of motion or bear load in that position (no matter who you are). Being able to cross your arm in front of your body, however, is something you should be able to do. More ROM isn't necessarily better. Sometimes being limited in a movement has a protective factor. In my case that is especially true, but I'm pretty sure my PT would kill any patient trying to do behind the head shoulder presses

 

I'll agree that there is definitely some things or positions that one probably shouldn't do and you're asking for it sooner or later if you do it.

But I'll add to that buy saying, there's a lot more people can or could do.. If they did it properly, from the start to present... Shoulders specifically is something you have to be very careful with and work your way up to certain levels of strength with that full ROM that I'm speaking of without jacking something up..