Well last week I decided to take a whole week off except for chest day, bad idea! I was doing 315lbs and on my 3rd set, I went down and felt this kinda ripping on my right side, right on top of my arm pit, where you normally get all those stretch marks and stuff. So went to the doctor as precaution cause it wasn't hurting that much, he took xrays and he said everything looked fine. He said to Ice it and take Advil for a bit and try working out depending how it feels. Well I did back on tuesday and everything was fine, I kinda thought that it would be since it only seems to hurt on pushing movements, yesterday was shoulder, ouch, warmed up, I could feel a bit of pain then tried heavier and same thing, I was sooo pissed, so I kept doing shoulder with laterals which I have no problem with. Now here's my questions, how bad can it be if I dont do shoulder presses for the next week or two eventhought I just took a week off... will I totally lose all my strengh... I'm skipping chest this week, that's no problem. Another thing, my strengh is still there, it's if I go all the way down, it streches and doesn't feel right, has anyone had this before... and is there a better cure or something that can speed up recovery better then icing it all the time? Any help would be appreciated, someone give me somekind of good news. Yes I cut and pasted from my original post at meso to get more responses.