Thread: Shoulder Pain

Thats pretty much the perfect thing to do.
Shadow box a little and get in the mode.

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Hey Sharla, hope it's improved a bit for you.

Mine was threatening to flare up just yesterday.
A bit worried now as I'm just about to kick into a new training regime

Thanks Donny It hasn't been too bad lately. I think I need to be careful I don't overdo other upper body training when doing weights etc. I'm keen to strengthen it though to get back my right cross which was once much stronger than it has been for a while.

I'm going to put MD's shoulder stabilizing technique into my weight training routine and see how it goes. I've also noticed i slouch to the right a bit - especially when sitting down so I'm trying to stop that in case this bad postural habit has anything to do with it.

I hope yours doesn't continue to flare up. Do you think you can pin point a relatively steep increase in some kind of upper body training that might have set it off?

Originally Posted by Bomp

Originally Posted by FeuerFrei

I haven't really noticed any pains along with the shoulder pain. On the other hand, I can't rule out there being something related. I get tightness in my upper back and my neck on a pretty regular basis. Those might be related. I've also had a nagging pain in my right hip flexor that had some impact on my running gate for awhile but it did not appear to have any impact on the shoulder...at least none that I have noticed.

I've also had a nagging right hip flexor problem, nothing serious at all just annoying, I think it comes from throwing the cross, when you turn your hips with the right leg trailing behind there's a strain on the hip flexor. Lots of warming up and streitching is the answer.

Donny's comments on arm punches when a beginner rings true to me as well. Throwing tense arm punches to try and get more power before getting the technique right does yank at the shoulder and can do damage. I still get over enthusiastic sometimes on the bag and lose my form, when I do it now I go and shadow a little to get the relaxation back and seems to do the trick.

Good point here Bomp! I tend to over-reach often with my punches since i'm short and try to compensate. This is a bad habit and I've come up with a few ideas to train myself not to do it so we'll see how it goes!

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Thats pretty much the perfect thing to do.
Shadow box a little and get in the mode.

Yeah for a while I was doing static stretching for too long after my warm up before doing other work. I think I was effectively cooling down again and then starting training cold.

A team mate pointed it out to me and now I'm leaving all my static stretches for after training and just doing dynamic stretches before. Hopefully it'll make things run a little more smoothly!

funny, Pavel Tastoulins says don't stretch till after you excercise, and i do dynamic stretches and nothing really in the way of static...once you get moving things seem to work better but even after static stretches i get pulled muscles and such...

Spoke too soon! It nagged me again yesterday. Oddly enough it didn't happen when I wasn't trying to be very compact and punch with the cross coming from straight in front of my face.

It's fine if I let my fist come from the side of my head level with my shoulder. Perhaps I'm causing it myself by trying too hard to eliminate any openings I might have while throwing a cross?

Originally Posted by Sharla

Thanks Donny It hasn't been too bad lately. I think I need to be careful I don't overdo other upper body training when doing weights etc. I'm keen to strengthen it though to get back my right cross which was once much stronger than it has been for a while.

I'm going to put MD's shoulder stabilizing technique into my weight training routine and see how it goes. I've also noticed i slouch to the right a bit - especially when sitting down so I'm trying to stop that in case this bad postural habit has anything to do with it.

I hope yours doesn't continue to flare up. Do you think you can pin point a relatively steep increase in some kind of upper body training that might have set it off?

Be sure to let me now how that excercise effects you!
Perhaps some swimming could help your shoulder also?
It's a brilliant excercise for strengthening the upper muscles whilst maintaining flexibility so it could work

As for my shoulder, I was doing tricep excercises "over the shoulder" so that could possibly be it....Not certain though.

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Originally Posted by Sharla

Thanks Donny It hasn't been too bad lately. I think I need to be careful I don't overdo other upper body training when doing weights etc. I'm keen to strengthen it though to get back my right cross which was once much stronger than it has been for a while.

I'm going to put MD's shoulder stabilizing technique into my weight training routine and see how it goes. I've also noticed i slouch to the right a bit - especially when sitting down so I'm trying to stop that in case this bad postural habit has anything to do with it.

I hope yours doesn't continue to flare up. Do you think you can pin point a relatively steep increase in some kind of upper body training that might have set it off?

Be sure to let me now how that excercise effects you!
Perhaps some swimming could help your shoulder also?
It's a brilliant excercise for strengthening the upper muscles whilst maintaining flexibility so it could work

As for my shoulder, I was doing tricep excercises "over the shoulder" so that could possibly be it....Not certain though.

yeah I have been doing tricep extension exercises also but only with very light weights so that I can watch my form and not swing or strain with the weight.

I don't think that's what's bugging my shoulder but as for yours - who knows?!? - I've read these shoulder joints are pretty complicated so it might take a while for us to nut out what does and doesn't irritate them!

I have been swimming reasonably often - about 3 or 4 times a week and I am finding it is helping me make better gains from my weight training - done straight afterwards. I used to do three sets of everything but with the swim after weights 2 sets seems to be plenty and I think it doubles as a stretching exercise to help cool down too. I like it

I've started MDs exercise and I think I must definately have a few weak shoulder muscles. I am using very light weight but it still feels like hard work! Must need it!

cool I might give them a go so.

If I could get a gym with a pool I'd swim a lot more.

Yeah if I didn't know how to swim explosively i can see it not helping but sprints i think definately do!