Shoulder Pain

[alcatraz rat]

Hey Fellas

Ive had this problem before and it went away, now its back to mess up my routine. 
I get this pain in my right shoulder, front head/muscle/rotator cuff sorta area when ever I do any upper body excercise.
Friends father suggested using a ice pack every night for like 2 hours or such, he reckons its inflammation or sometin, it helps, but is this the right thing to do.
What am I to do, cause its preventing me from doing any heavy lifts.
Ive tried Arnold presses with light weights, all the rorator cuff routines I can find to strenghten it and what not. maybe its not strong enough, cause my shoulders r my weakspot.

Hope this is enough info..
Cheers
Rat

[Vega]

Try taking an ibuprofen or other NSAID to reduce the inflammation after a workout. That should reduce the swelling and pain. You might also want to give your shoulder a few days to rest and repair itself and work on your legs or other areas where you aren't putting any stress on your shoulder.

[johnj]

Does your workout include any behind the neck should presses, behind the neck pull downs? When doing flys do you tend to always go back as far as you can with the weights? Any of those can cause the problems you described. If you are doing them leave them out of routine. Change routine so military presses are done in front of neck, and the same for pulldowns keep them in front of face and keep good form. When doing flys try not to for for that extra stretch when bringing weights back. I changed all of above and have not had a shoulder problem since. Shoulder problem was bad enough that it pretty much effected all my routines. let me know the answers and if chanegup helps.

[Bad Bob]

Good point J.
Late last year I "re-discovered" behind the neck presses. Felt good!
Old school!

2 months in I started having front delt issues, so much that I had to back way off
with the incline BB presses. Traced it to the behind the neck movement and am now almost back to 100%.

I remember doing these with no fear at all in my early 20's... But at 50, that just ain't gonna happen. My flexibility is NEAR what it was back then!

[Jack Tragic]

Been there bro...many times. And what works for me has been HAMMER STRENGTH seated shoulder press. At one point in time I went from pressing a quarter each side, to pressing 3-45'ers each side! This is the ONLY machine that imo keeps the range of motion where it needs to be as per shoulder pressing! (keep elbows forward to reduce pain and "strain"...)  J.

    Haha! ...*a "quarter"...?   NO! That should have read A PLATE/ side...up to 3 plates/ side! (don't EVER do HEAVY behind the neck presses! Only front presses! It will feel GREAT at the time, but you WILL pay in flesh!). You know what I mean here...INJURIES...!

[nick]

Nothing really to add besides DAMN I hate shoulder pain.  I've dislocated my one shoulder around 5 times.  It's been pretty good for the past two years.  Just have to take it easy and know your limits.  LIMITS SUCK!