First off, there are ton of you guys that are more knowledgeable than me, so feel free to add to this thread with better info and don't hesitate to correct anything stupid I say. I'm literally just some guy that goes to the gym.
I had real bad pain in both shoulders for years. All completely avoidable. I did what alot of do: Lift heavy all the time and not do proper stretching/mobility shit, developed pain and inflammation, gradually got weaker. Sometimes it would be the left shoulder, sometimes the right shoulder, sometimes both.
We're talking probably ten years of this. Did physical therapy, but it was a waste of time because it wasn't a PT that deals with people who lift, it was a regular PT that helps people in their 80s stay mobile. Anyway, through trial and error, I've got my shoulders feeling pretty good (for 48 years old,) here's what I did:
1. Stretches
By far, the stretch that helped the most is just doing dead hangs from a bar. My understanding is that this opens up the subacromial space which relieves impingement. I have no idea if that's accurate, I just know it worked for me. I would do dead hangs at the end of every training session (even legs, cardio, whatever). Hang from the bar as long as possible, rest, do it again three times. I also did some weighted chest stretching with dumbells, because having a tight chest causes shoulder issues; but hanging from the bar really helped a lot.
2. Exercise selection
For awhile, I completely stopped doing any pressing. My gym has the Prime pec-deck that goes up to 350 pounds, so that became my main chest movement. Raises for shoulders. I don't know about IFBB pros, but I really believe that most of us don't need to do any pressing to get the physiques we want. You can build your chest with flye movements and each head of your delts with raises. That being said, I still love pressing, so I've started doing some pressing movements again. I ONLY do pressing with dumbells or cables. No barbell, no machines. It's not that I think machines are all bad, it's just that you're locked into a fixed plane of movement, and if that's not a good movement for your individual biomechanics, then you could be doing damage over time (IMO).
3. TB-500
I don't really know how much this has helped, I give most of the credit to the stretching and exercise selection, but I've been taking 10 mg of TB-500 a week for awhile now. One of our sponsors sells it for a good price, so I stocked up on it because I read about so many potential benefits. I assume it's helping though. A lot of times the pain in my shoulders was a "burning" sensation, and I don't ever seem to get that now. I'm guessing that was from inflammation and maybe the TB-500 has lowered my inflammation? I'm curious if anyone else is running TB-500 indefinitely like this?
Is there anything I need to worry about running high dose TB-500 long term like this?
Anyway, if your shoulders hurt, hang from a bar all the time. Thanks for attending my TED talk
I had real bad pain in both shoulders for years. All completely avoidable. I did what alot of do: Lift heavy all the time and not do proper stretching/mobility shit, developed pain and inflammation, gradually got weaker. Sometimes it would be the left shoulder, sometimes the right shoulder, sometimes both.
We're talking probably ten years of this. Did physical therapy, but it was a waste of time because it wasn't a PT that deals with people who lift, it was a regular PT that helps people in their 80s stay mobile. Anyway, through trial and error, I've got my shoulders feeling pretty good (for 48 years old,) here's what I did:
1. Stretches
By far, the stretch that helped the most is just doing dead hangs from a bar. My understanding is that this opens up the subacromial space which relieves impingement. I have no idea if that's accurate, I just know it worked for me. I would do dead hangs at the end of every training session (even legs, cardio, whatever). Hang from the bar as long as possible, rest, do it again three times. I also did some weighted chest stretching with dumbells, because having a tight chest causes shoulder issues; but hanging from the bar really helped a lot.
2. Exercise selection
For awhile, I completely stopped doing any pressing. My gym has the Prime pec-deck that goes up to 350 pounds, so that became my main chest movement. Raises for shoulders. I don't know about IFBB pros, but I really believe that most of us don't need to do any pressing to get the physiques we want. You can build your chest with flye movements and each head of your delts with raises. That being said, I still love pressing, so I've started doing some pressing movements again. I ONLY do pressing with dumbells or cables. No barbell, no machines. It's not that I think machines are all bad, it's just that you're locked into a fixed plane of movement, and if that's not a good movement for your individual biomechanics, then you could be doing damage over time (IMO).
3. TB-500
I don't really know how much this has helped, I give most of the credit to the stretching and exercise selection, but I've been taking 10 mg of TB-500 a week for awhile now. One of our sponsors sells it for a good price, so I stocked up on it because I read about so many potential benefits. I assume it's helping though. A lot of times the pain in my shoulders was a "burning" sensation, and I don't ever seem to get that now. I'm guessing that was from inflammation and maybe the TB-500 has lowered my inflammation? I'm curious if anyone else is running TB-500 indefinitely like this?
Is there anything I need to worry about running high dose TB-500 long term like this?
Anyway, if your shoulders hurt, hang from a bar all the time. Thanks for attending my TED talk
