Shoulder clicking when pressing
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Anyone has this issue? It started happening after I took a tumble snoeboarding and landed hard on it. Nothings been really working. It doesnt hurt that much, is it safe to keep pressing with it? Even light weights like 25 lbs cause it to happen
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@Neigher sounds like the same concept as knees cracking, which isn’t a huge issue. But do a lot of work with resistance bands to open up and engage to shoulder before workouts
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@Neigher If it's painful then I'd consider thinking about topical DHEA/progest-E. Friend had a cracking knee after a tumble and this fixed it permanently after one session.
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@Neigher what kind of pressing and what position is your shoulder in? Is it a barbell press, dumbbell press, standing, decline, bench? What angle is your upper arm at relative to your torso - in line, 45, 90? What range of motion are you moving through? What happens when you pull? The shoulder can go through a lot of different angles and ranges of motion and all of that can play a role in what gets pulled on which will impact how things slide over each other. Experiment with all of that and see if you can find an angle, range of motion, etc. that doesn't hurt at all. You might have knocked something out of alignment and you might need to work the shoulder in different ways to change the tension that might be hanging around as well after your fall.
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I have the same from an old injury. I was told it's a common injury where a ligament breaks, and the muscles and tendons that were held in place under it are now free to move over the bone, sometimes 'popping' in and out. Apparently harmless overall, but can get inflamed.
Mine pops when I do bench press, but I've found if I'm disciplined about warming up before a workout, I can mitigate any inflammation or negative effects.
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@Neigher I'd experiment with more diverse shoulder workouts to see if that helps. Mace swings, overhead carries, one arm presses, handstand holds against the wall, overhead squat.
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@starshipduly It is in all positions that Ive tried. But it hasnt felt very painful. Seems like I can push through, I have also been applying topical 6-keto-p4 and pansterone.
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Get your posture right. Shoulders back and down. Work your rear delts, do light (5lb) shoulder exercises between each set of each of your main exercises. My right shoulder did the exact same shit and it kept me from pressing for about 4 months. But now, after consistent posture work and shoulder exercises between sets it doesn’t bother me anymore. Definitely gonna keep the shoulder regimen up forever now though
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@Neigher You could try doing a few sets of wall angels before pressing and definitely warm up the external rotators on the cable machine or with band pull aparts or with a db in a side lying position. The squat university youtube guy wrote a book called 'Rebuilding Milo', there are a bunch of evaluation techniques and rehabilitation exercises in it that helped me with my knee pain, but there's also a part about shoulder injuries maybe they could help idk
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It could be forward head carriage and a loss of the cervical curve which is putting pressure on your clavicle and possibly skewing the motion of the entire shoulder, eventually causing it to click when it goes through extension. No amount of warmup exercises will fix this issue, you must learn to keep your hips and skull behind your shoulders when standing upright.
