Press Part 2: Adding the Hips / Shoulder Impingement
Starting Strength Coach Steve Ross explains the importance of using hips in the press and the fix for common errors.
Press Part 2: Adding the Hips / Shoulder Impingement
Starting Strength Coach Steve Ross explains the importance of using hips in the press and the fix for common errors.
“Can’t impinge,” I’ve heard and read it so many times on this site. Why are my shoulders in constant fucking pain? My supraspinatus and my tendons are constantly inflamed. Yeah, I can press #135 with a big hip drive but I can’t pick up a jar of peanut butter off the shelf without excruciating pain. The advice of “just do more so the body heals the stress” isn’t working either: it’s been six months of pain as I slog through a progression that’s anything but linear. The only time I was close to pain free was when I missed 2 workouts in a row and skipped press on a third. Similar deal on squat with elbow pain and a constantly re aggravated adductor that just gets ripped up again and again. This program has not made me a whole a lot stronger but it’s sure provided a lot of pain and injury.
Then stop doing the program and get an actual diagnosis of the injuries. Or maybe be innovative and post a video of the lifts.
He’s not doing the program, Rip.
Weird, I am currently rehabbing a rotator cuff tear with a slightly modified version of the press (pin press from about nose-level but everything else in accordance with the SS press), started with an empty bar suspended by reverse bands to make it even lighter, adding 5lbs a workout, I'm now up past 150lbs and my shoulder feels better than it has in 2 years.