Injury work arounds
Hey everyone I would like to start a thread on work arounds that you have used while injured. I have some good experience with this my self since I am 41 and treated my body like a wrecking ball for decades! I'll start with shoulders, mine take turns hurting and my right one floats around a lot unless I concentrate on every move. The work arounds that worked best at allowing me to train through the pain were for presses ie bench, shoulder etc = finding the right angle to keep my elbows tucked in at. Even going wide which seemed impossible sometimes could be manageable by bringing my elbows in. For raises and flys the best workaround I have found is breaking up the range of motion. In other words when I want to do raises but can't get the whole motion I will do a set of the lower range and then a set of the upper range, may sound wrong but it works very well when you have pain at a certain place in your movement. Look forward to all your experiences.
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i cant bring the barbell to my chest when i bench, it kills my shoulders, and i cant do shoulder presses to my chest, have to be behind my head or my shoulder hurts. i get the tendinitis in from bicep to forearm often, i just go easy on curls for a while, first thing i do is stop barbell curls when it hurts.
go see a chiropractor they can really help with joint pain he helped me out with my knee not to long ago, you also could have damaged your shoulder joint completely and training it will just make it worse, he can give you an ex-ray as well if need be to see if your shoulder cuff has been deformed by wear and tear.
Can't do barbell curls anymore. Severe pain in elbows. Have to use dumbells for all my curl movements and for some reason with those it doesn't hurt.
Ya, sometimes I get a pain in my tendon from bicep to upper forearm, I've found that if I release my hold on the bar slowly at the end of the set instead of just dropping the bar it doesn't hurt as bad
I can't even curl the bar up. Hurts on the inside part of the elbow kind of where your funnybone is .