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  • 09/04/2013 at 9:20 am in reply to: Shoulder issues with presses getting serious enough it’s affecting other lifts #72714
    AvatarBen Cagle
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    Thanks Kaitlin.  Got the yoga balls in the mail yesterday.  Will try them today.

    09/03/2013 at 1:48 pm in reply to: Shoulder issues with presses getting serious enough it’s affecting other lifts #72710
    AvatarBen Cagle
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    Over the past 3 days when I work the lacrosse ball around my scapula (Episode 18) I feel like I’m hitting a nerve at the top (where he places the lacrosse ball initially in the video).  It sends a shooting pain up my shoulder to to the back of my neck.  My thoughts are:  stop using the lacrosse ball and focus on stretching for a bit.  Correct or incorrect?  Any additional thoughts?

    Thanks!
    08/28/2013 at 9:30 am in reply to: Shoulder issues with presses getting serious enough it’s affecting other lifts #72675
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    Wow, that’s some serious homework!  Thanks Kaitlin!!

    08/27/2013 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Shoulder issues with presses getting serious enough it’s affecting other lifts #72673
    AvatarBen Cagle
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    Thanks for recommending the therapy ball, I’ll give it a shot.  

    I do have a hard time getting my elbows up in the front rack position.  And now that I think about it the past two days during thrusters and squat cleans I had an especially hard time getting elbows up.  I’ll search for some videos on elbows on here and see what I can find.
    08/27/2013 at 11:02 am in reply to: Shoulder issues with presses getting serious enough it’s affecting other lifts #72666
    AvatarBen Cagle
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    My Chiro saw me lifting during my afternoon Squat Clean session, working on form.  He pointed out my shoulders are not back, I’m hunched over, creating too much tension in my back and shoulders.  I know that’s the case and it’s something I need to pay closer attention to.  Same thing on Deadlifts.  I also shrug my shoulders when I run.  

    That plus I’m really just getting heavy into CrossFit with some strength sessions.  He thinks it could simply be my body getting acclimated with the stress when I was pretty non-active for 8 years
    08/25/2013 at 1:54 pm in reply to: Shoulder issues with presses getting serious enough it’s affecting other lifts #72659
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    Some other details:  I’m 33 years old and while I pitched until I was 20 (2 years in college) I haven’t moved much since then.  Started Crossfit 7 months ago.  I have bad posture….slumped forward my whole life but have been trying to correct it the past couple weeks.  It will take serious time, bad habit.  Also I  sit in front of a computer all day and my posture there is poor as well, working on it as well.  

    Could it be lack of mobility in my chest/front shoulder that’s causing undue stress on my back shoulder/scapula area?  A couple years ago I was more into running and many times when I would run 4+ miles I’d get this same soreness but not nearly as bad.
    08/25/2013 at 2:44 am in reply to: Shoulder issues with presses getting serious enough it’s affecting other lifts #72655
    AvatarBen Cagle
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    Thank you, Kaitlin!  Sorry for the extreme delay, simply forgot I asked a question on here  🙁  An update, the issue is gone in my right shoulder but persists on my left shoulder (scapula).  I found a Chiro I have confidence in who uses ‘active release’ method.  He gets the knots out but then they come back in a couple days.  I’ve been hitting the lacrosse ball hard myself with the same results, works for a short period of time.  My left tricep has been tight some as well, I’ve been smashing it with a lacrosse ball and/or barbell as well.  Same for my bicep, long bicep I believe the Dr. said.  So it’s pretty much the entire left side of my upper body

    I think it started when I started working heavily on learning kipping and butterfly pull-ups.  I have a tendency to descent slowly.  I’ve been told doing that, which is almost a negative, is not good for my shoulders
    It hits me with any overhead.  It started with a sharp pain when I would rack the barbell, let’s say from a front squat position.  Then the same pain when I moved the bar from front to back in prep for snatch progression.  
    Yesterday we had a simple 25min WOD:  max rep HSPU’s or Wall Walks with a 400m run when you break.  I did wall walks because I can’t seem to get HSPU (something about upside down, that’s a different topic).  It felt 100% fine during the WOD.  But by the end of the day the knot around my scapula was back.  This morning it was there in full force.  I had a hard time with bench press this morning.  Then I lost all strength at the bottom of DB Incline Bench today, couldn’t do it.
    Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.  And I’ll respond much faster this time 🙂
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