Possible injury advice needed

[Gymaholic]

Yo guys lately I have been getting pain in my left shoulder. The first time I felt it was when I did E-Z bar skull crushers or pullovers or whatever you wanna call them. But I kept on doing them now my left shoulder hurts when I bench too. I did some research and now I dont come all the way down to touch my chest when I bench. The pain is less but its still there. This morning I tried to E-Z bar skullcrusher but even without weights it hurt. Should I give up on E-Z bar skullcrushers alltogether? What would be a good substitute? Cheers.

[Imadeapoopsie]

try stretching and taking a day or two off and see how it goes

[Gym rat]

I would suggest ditching skull crushers for triceps overhead cable extenions and get your left shoulder checked out by a phyiso or a Sports DR

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

yikes another member also posted about pretty much exactly same thing around same time as you http://www.gymnation.co.nz/forum/injury-rehab/what-have-i-done-my-shoulder

 

shoulder health is really important, take your time to warm up properly with (full range of motion!) and also do stretches at the end.  most importantly remember how that kind of pain feels and make sure you differentiate between the bad pain and the normal pain (the burning sensation when working out).. you can keep pushing through one but try pushing through the other and you will just make things a whole lot worse for yourself.

 

could just be that you are not doing it right? doing something wrong over time can 'suddenly' cause problems without you noticing how/when it happened. stuff like skull crushers and dips are known as awesome triceps builders but for a lot of us they will mess with our wrists/elbows/shoudlers because we just don't have the mobility to do them properly... or we plain old do it wrong or both lol. look up stuff online for shoulder mobility and do the drills few times a week you will notice a difference. i started out with just shoulder dislocations with a broom stick and it helped majorly.

 

with your bench press not going all the way down is a very short term solution.. i came to the same conclusion some time last year lol. wish i could find that post now some of the more experienced members explained some really good stuff regarding form when doing bench pressing but I guess you can look that up online too? important topics were : tucking in elbows,  squeezing shoulder blades together, shrugging traps up (this one helped the most for my shoulder issues and gave almost immediate boost of strength too), tight grip with straight wrist/forearm (lots of us form the bad habbit of bending the wrist and putting the bar more on our palm which loads the weight differently and we see form breaking down as we go heavier)

[Gymaholic]

@FOTR Yeah I saw about tucking in elbows and squeezing shoulder blades together. I think theres a different name to it but cant remember it. I did that plus not coming all the way down, the pain was a lot less but it was still there, just irritating. I mean I can keep going with the bench press but Im afraid that i will completely f*ck my shoulder up. I guess Ill talk to the physio about that too when i go to see him for my knees soon. Most likely gonna ditch the skull crushers and maybe try what @Gym rat said

[Riccardo]

Stop anything that aggrivates it and go see a doctor or physio. Most likely an impingement or a tear.