Anyone else fighting a shoulder injury?

[sawastea]

I don't think this is true. You have to stretch. I read that it promotes muscle growth to stretch in between sets.

I heard the same thing. It was in December's M&F magazine

 

[onerepmaximum]

This lady that I train had a shoulder impingment. She had surgery to have a bone spur removed. It's a little better, but not much.

 

[wtlftr]

I do not read M & F mag. I was under the impression that when you apply stress to a muscle it breaks down, stretching will stretch a muscle, causing a further break down and possible tears when doing during a workout. And time and aa will help rebuild. But yes I do believe you should lightly stretch after a brief warmup and then after training but not before during and after.

 

[SoreArms]

I used to do 10-15 mins cardio for warm up and then do all kinds of stretching. Now, I just show up, stretch the muscle that I'm about to workout and warm up with one or two medium weight sets before I do anything heavy.

 

[Devastation]

also my ear hurts. mostly on the outside though

 

[Clean]

I saw that movie house of 1000 corpses this past weekened, your avatar reminded me of it. It made me want to go to confession after watching it. It seriously freaked me out lol.

 

[Cut]

It was in December's M&F magazine

 

[sawastea]

I used to do 10-15 mins cardio for warm up and then do all kinds of stretching. Now, I just show up, stretch the muscle that I'm about to workout and warm up with one or two medium weight sets before I do anything heavy.

How does this seem to help? Any problems?

 

[hamstershaver]

always warm that shoulder up

 

[bran987]

I used to do 10-15 mins cardio for warm up and then do all kinds of stretching. Now, I just show up, stretch the muscle that I'm about to workout and warm up with one or two medium weight sets before I do anything heavy.

15 minutes is waaaaaay more than ya need, that's as long as my whole cardio session separately lol.

5 minutes to get your heartrate up is OK while we are young.

I took a biomechanics course at the cooper institute here in dallas, the instructor was the former Mr. Colorado... he is a $150/hour trainer, hilarious guy... he wrote "Resistance Training Instruction" and "Muscle Mechanics".. Everett Aaberg is the name.

Ahhh anyway the point is he said that up until about age 30 you can get away with just doing warmup sets and then going into your workout and probably not hurt yourself.. but older than that and your risk increases greatly to pull/tear something if you are not warmed up right.. he had a scientific reason but he also said the same is true in the people he trains.

just another opinion.