Shoulder Injury From Bench Press
If you want to prevent a future injury and break past a bench press sticking point then follow this routine twice a week.
Shoulder injury from bench press. The bench press is arguably one of the most important lifts you can perform. Feeling shoulder pain during a dumbbell bench press is actually an all too common thing. And in many cases this is simply a result of various tweaks that need to be made in your bench press form. Avoiding a bench press blowout.
While bench pressing you may experience some rotator or shoulder pain. This hidden bench press injury is prevalent when you have full range of shoulder motion with no pain but when you bench press one arm lags behind when pressing off the chest and you get shoulder pain. In this article i ll go through exactly what those tweaks are so that you can minimize your risk of injury overtime and get back to pain free bench pressing as soon as possible. But if you ve gotten to the point where your shoulder hurts all the time or when you are trying to sleep you should probably hold off on the following recommendations and get in to see a doctor or physical.
This is a common injury with heavy benchers because all the body weight and bar weight is resting on the upper back. Causing the shoulder to rotate. Exercises like the bench press when done incorrectly can cause shoulder instability the most common mistakes when performing this move are using too much weight failing to use proper form flaring your elbows from too wide of a grip relying too much on your shoulders to push the weight and doing the exercise with existing upper body pain or injury. The reasons why benching hurts your shoulders is a topic for another article but suffice it to say that shoulder pain usually isn t so much the fault of benching itself but rather the misuse and overuse of the exercise.
You should be able to make the following adjustments and get back on track. Perhaps the most common issue especially for men is shoulder pain stemming from the flat barbell bench press. This is primarily due to shoulder pain during the bench press or after the movement. As a strength and powerlifting coach i prescribe the bench press in my programs for upper body strength training.