pissed off...

[mrgeeky]

had rotator cuff injuries in the past.

Years of impingment led to me having acromioplasty on one shoulder.

Then impingment and a rotator cuff tear has lead to a repair and an acromioplasty (sp) on the other side.. This was many years ago.

After all that I still kept getting impingment on my right shoulder every time I started putting any size in. These problems have always held me back.

Then back in 2004 I got a new tear in my right rotator cuff..

I just ignored it and carried on training.. Well its finally caught up with me.

A couple of years ago I had to start backing off training.. Its slowly got worse and worse until recently I seen the specialist.

Aparently my right rotator cuff is almost torn right off the bone.

Only been held on by 10%

So I need to have an op which from experience will take up to 2 years to come totally right.. Last time with all the right exerciess etc, it took 18 months to come right..

Well fi that isnt bad enough, I love my boxing.. So I started punching softly when training on the bag with my right hand.. But I kept up power shots, hookes etc with my left hand.. Felt something in my left shoulder tear the other day.. Now thats giving me shit too.. Im guessing I'll need a repair on the left hand side now..

problem is im now 52..

I dont want to give up training.. Im pissed off!

Question guys, once I get these ops out of the road and get everythign sorted, shall I back off the weights for life.. Shall I only train with light weights. Can i make any gains with light weights? Or should I just give it up and stick to cardio..

Any thoughts, is this just how it is when you get older. Is it such the older you get the less you should try to push..

Whats your thoughts guys...

Specialist

[mrgeeky]

Once my shoulders are fixed I think Im even going to be too scared to bang the bags (boxing) hard ever again..

Im so sick of the lay offs..

[Ninja]

Gutted mate. I think with proper rehab from a good physio you can do weights again but yeah i guess your recovery from injury will be a little longer at 52.

Theres no reason after rehab is completed you couldnt find exercises that dont place RC under huge stress

Good luck

[mrgeeky]

what exercises apart from lower half dont put strain on the Rotator Cuff?

I love weights.. I think its over for me though.

Too many years of time spent off due to injuries then after I have had the ops to cure the problems, its happening all over again..

Gutted.. but time to start looking at something else to do perhaps..

I know some one that trains by using light weights! He does 10 sets of 10 of everything.. And he's adding some good size. Maybe thats the way to go.

Kinda of takes all the fun out of it though when you are not training to failure..

God Im pissed off.. I love training. I think Im just going to have to get a handle on getting over it.. :-(

[Ninja]

Every upper body compound movement involves your RC but some place extra strain- for me its dips so only do them occasionally.

Maybe for you its barbell bench press this does a lot of peoples shoulder in.

Maybe heavy training will not be possible and like your mate you stick to 10-15 reps just to keep some decent muscle. Dont give it up

[mrgeeky]

guess Im probably just looking for some sympathy, im so pissed off with it all.

I'll get back in to it once I get these damn shoulders fixed.

I can see this dragging on for a few years though the way our public health system is. Then the wait for the shoulder to come right after the op..

Its going to be a while before i can train again.

Then Im going to have to look in to what the hell i have done to my left shoulder. All so frustrating..

Oh well rant over.. Not much good crying about it I guess...

cheers for the kind words ninja

[startinfromscratch]

try to look outside the square man. alot of ppl with longterm shoulder issues use the reverse grip bench. its not as scary and dangerous as people make out, when done properly.

squatting with a SSB or GCB will take all the pressure off your shoulders from bar on back work.

where there is a will there is a way!

[mrgeeky]

funny enough two exercises I dont do are squats and bench press.

Shoulders cant handle benching and lower back cant handle squats.

instead of squats I do leg presses and a form of dead lifts.

For chest I get away with decline, cable flys, and I was just starting to reintroduce incline dumbell presses with my palms facing inwards.

It was the incline dumbbell presses that done the damage last time around.

I just seem to have an inherent problem with impingment and I have tried everything including acromioplasty's on both shoulders.

I cant see me ever giving up weights.. I'll get back in to it, but am going to have to find a way to back off the weights Im using which in my eyes kind of takes the fun out of it.. Funny thing is I have never been able to push to heavy due to shoulder problems my whole life.

The best bench press I did when I was benching many years ago was 47.5kg aside on the Olympic bar for a set of 8. Then my shoulder messed up again with impingment.

So whats that? 95kg plus the olympic bar of 15kg?

110 kg was my best bench press ever. I could have got so much better if it wasnt for these stoopid shoulders.. I just start packing size on, I just start getting up there with the weights and bam!

End up resting for a year or two for it to come right then have to start all over again..

Oh well could be worse. I could have been born with no arms I guess..

Sorry guys, just having a bitch and a moan.. I love my weights.. I cant see me living with out doing them. I may not be good at them but I sure do enjoy the training.. I dont do it for anything else other than enjoyment...