Incredible diappearing delts ( again ) and the dreaded rotator cuff returns

Expert Discussion Recovery and Regeneration
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These two are probably linked - but after two very hard weeks of study and one competition - I suddenly find I’ve lost 3 kg’s and most of it seems to be off my delts - and whats worse - my old rotator cuff injury is starting to ‘niggle’ after turning over awkwardly in bed believe it or not -

So I’ve been icing it / taking glucosamine and doing an extensive warm up using all the stuff I learnt at physio - but question is -

Should I drop upper body work completely or just drop it to 60 - 80% for a couple of weeks ?
I’ve done two light sessions with it so far and it s about the same - not painful , just an occassional twinge -

it isn’t a new injury - just a niggle that seems to crop up when my speed endurance distances start to increase and similtaneously strip the flesh off my delts .

:help: appreciated

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Do you have forward head posture? What movements do you do?

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for the cuff - I do rotational warm up exercises forward / side and across
forward / side lateral assisted

  • bent arm dumbell grip inner / outer / side / rotational

Forward head posture ? Not sure what u mean
Probably long term bad posture at comp tho

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Gloop,

Rotator cuffs - I love my shoulder horn.

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What’s one o them Wullie ?

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Gloop,

http://t-mag.com/html/body_129stuff.html

An other rotator cuff exercise, I like: single arm external rotations:

http://t-mag.com/html/52balan.html

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Is the rotator cuff pain caused by a problem with cartilage in the shoulder? Otherwise, I cannot see why you are using glucosamine considering the absence of evidence that it is useful for conditions other than osteoarthritis.

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I think so Jim - it’s the attachments that run around the shoulder joint underneath the deltoid sheath .

I seem to have a weakness with tendons generally -so I’ve added glucosamine to my diet - hopefully this will help matters .
It’s feeling better tomorrow - so I’m gonna keep up with the self physio and ice and cut my upper body wieghts to 60 - 80% - it’s a recovery week anyway so this shouldn’t hurt .

I’ll also try that variation of the single arm external rotation Wullie ty - not disimilar to some I do already .

Clemson - I’m not sure if I have forward head posture during sprints - noones mentioned it so far - I’ll ask someone to check - I spose that would possibly stress the cuff ?