high rep shoulder pain

[fenceguy]

just got back from the gym. Shoulder day. stretched thoroughly, and sat down for some mp warm up.no weight just the bar, hammered out about 30. felt fine. added dimes, hit about my 20th rep and seriously sharp cuttting pain inside my shoulder socket. rested, stretched, still hurting, but tried another set. same pain. this had happend once before, but not as bad, last time it happend i upped the weight to my usual work sets and it went away.

did the same thing, and sure enough, no pain. zilch, nada. added more weight. squeezed out 8. felt great, more weight 6 fine.

dropped down to dimes again. for a burn out set, about 15 same sharp pain in my shoulder.

any ideas?

[KNOWNasJOE]

This happens to me too with shoulders. I noticed when I try to move the weight quickly to warm up it gets that way. Because it is a light weight it is easy for me to get a little sloppy with form. Try watching that, it helped me. I also noticed I was using a loose grip because the weight wasn't too heavy. Try squeezing the bar being very slow and controlled, and focusing on the muscle.

[-DedicateD-]

happens to me, but i believe my pain comes with fatigue which leads to my form slipping which leads me to put more strain on the surrounding muscles of the shoulder instead.

i warm-up fine
set of 8
set of 5
set of 12 (shoulder starts to tweak on the 9th or 10th rep as i get tired)

[fenceguy]

thanks guys appreciate it. was worried I had some sort of funky injury.

[Doc.Sust]

dont doreps over 15. hell , dont do reps over 10!! unless it is a minor auxillary movement using smaller muscle groups

[fenceguy]

why not? its just to warm up the muscles. they are not considered part of the "work" sets.

[DSM4Life]

why not? its just to warm up the muscles. they are not considered part of the "work" sets.

There is nothing wrong with a warm up or two. Say maybe a 15rep then 10rep then begin your working sets. Doing 30 reps seems a little high to me.

[Doc.Sust]

There is nothing wrong with a warm up or two. Say maybe a 15rep then 10rep then begin your working sets. Doing 30 reps seems a little high to me.

way to exessive!you are causing fatigue with your warm ups and are taking away from your working sets.

[Doc.Sust]

also with reps that high, your form will compromise in the later reps when you fatigue which greatly increases the percentage of possible injury, and with a compound movement like this,using so many major and minor muslces you are going to hurt yourself, as you already have done. if you want to imporve and not have this happen again, think out of tha box and dont be affraid to change the way you train.

[DSM4Life]

way to exessive!you are causing fatigue with your warm ups and are taking away from your working sets.

How do you do your warm ups ?

[Doc.Sust]

How do you do your warm ups ?

i am a bad guy to ask. since i am a powerlifter, i do things quite different, lets go with what i did this wk for squats, 135- 5
225- 5 315- 5 405-3 end of warm ups, working sets 475 for triples, 525 triples done, i had more in the tank BUT i wont do more than two heavy working sets with legs, i will save my strength for the following wk's workout

for thepress, 135-8 225- 5 315- 3 385-3 working sets 405 -3 425 -3 460 -2. for the pres i will do 3-4 top sets at most.

now if i was doing lets say lats, tri ext , shrugs, etc i would warm up with one or t sets of 10's and do 2 - 3 working sets for tens.

as you see , whatever i plan on doing my working sets with, i try to stay in about the same rep range for my warm ups. if i am maxing out, i would only work with one or two sets of 3 reps and than the rest with singles.