Keep having shoulder pain during pulling exercises. Mostly feel it during barbell rows. Even if I lift light I can feel pain in my left front of my shoulder. I actually stopped lifting for a few months until this went away and now it’s back. I feel my form is good, but maybe something in my shoulder is messed up and needs to be rehabbed. Anyone ever experience this? If so did you correct it and how?

I don't think I had the same shoulder pain as you, mine was more towards the lateral delt, caused by me pulling my elbows in during pressing movements like a dumb dumb.

But I have been rehabbing it myself just bring more diligent about shoulder stretches and more corrective exercises.

Maybe if you got pics of where the problem area is I might be able to recommend something

I want to say it’s the anterior delt where my shoulder meets my collar bone. It’s almost like I can’t keep that shoulder tight while pulling and something gets pinched. Because it’s all loose.

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Don't know how you lift shoulder pain, but ok.

Shoulders can be tricky, and we has weightlifters consistently put them in compromising positions. I'm actually currently going through some PRP/regenerative treatments in my left shoulder.

How are your arms in a cornholio position (srs)?

Don't quite know if I had the pain that close to my collar bone, but I had a similar pain for roughly the past year. Have gotten over it in the past month or two pretty easily after some meh PT. Docs said Bicep Tendonitis, maybe some labrum damage.

What I changed in recent weeks was starting to really emphasize the extent of my external rotation and how far I could bring my arm back when in the cornholio position. It was just one day I was checking things out when I noticed that my left (injured) arm had much less external rotation and was further forward in comparison to my right arm when in the cornholio position. Holding a band tied to a door behind me while standing in the cornholio position (at least one one side) really helped me recover my mobility and reduce pain fast.

If you notice asymmetry or lack of mobility in this position, I'd definitely check the stretching out.

I've been having it for over decades. You can lift with it but not 100%.

My advice is to heal completely before it becomes chronic.

I've had varying degrees of shoulder pain, from uncomfortable to 100% debilitating. For the latter, a steroid shot in the tendon (I think it was) fixed it...twice over a 10-year period. Prior to the first shot, all the rehab and doctor-directed attempts to fix it failed. The shot worked, and immediately like magic.

In the middle of the 2 times I got the shot, sometimes I'd get a lighter strain which was more uncomfortable. I'd get past that by ceasing to do exercises that bothered it, and to be cognizant to not over-extend it by leaning or sleeping on it which was a frequent cause of it to begin with.

I stopped posting on misc for about 10 years and then came back today, and I see that miscers have actually started lifting. Horry shieeet

But srs, the worst thing I did when I had shoulder pain was stop lifting. You need to keep that **** moving. Motion is lotion

I can do this position fine. It might be bicep tendonitis. I did a few things I found on the web such as lacrosse ball, and stretches I immediately felt relief. Not sure if placebo however.

You can do it fine and have no discrepancies in one arm vs. the other? I'm talking a *very* small difference - like one elbow goes back 1cm further than the other.

I thought of BT because you mentioned rows hurting you - pressing was supposed to have started my injury, but once I had it, any sort of lift where I was holding weight (e.g. rows/deadlifts) was really what would irritate it.

I overloaded my tendons possibly the one that joins the pec to the front delt.

Physio just told me to go light, gave me some exercises with a band to do, avoided overhead presses/incline ( which is what hurt it) was able to do pull exercises.
4 weeks later im about 90%.....just slowly loading up weights....don't jump straight back into your normal weights.

Fckn love hitting shoulder pain, best day of the week tbh

I had to use a gym that had no barbells and only a smith machine for a bit, it's taken me months to recover from shoulder issues after that.

I was dealing with shoulder problems from benching too wide lowered the weight fixed the form and pain went away