shoulder ergonometer recommends?

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baldmitch
baldmitch Posts: 90 Member
edited February 9 in Fitness and Exercise
The front of my left shoulder feels really tight and sore after tricep/chest day. After some research, looks like I'm getting inflammation or damage in my rotator cuff.

So, our gym has a shoulder ergonometer, the hand-bicycle thingy. I hear it's really good for alleviating pain and building up the rotator muscles.

What's a good routine? Should I think number of reps or amount of time?

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  • blackgold86
    blackgold86 Posts: 171 Member
    I have a similar issue. Had problems in progressing with my chest press so went to see a physio. Told me to stop all "push" activities until I got the alignment right with my shoulder blade/rotator cuff.

    Might not be what you want to hear, but could prevent further damage.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,369 Member
    Sounds like your positioning on benching/triceps movements is wrong. IMO, flat benching isn't really needed anyway and that incline bench develops a nicer look to the chest.
    What are the exercises you do?

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  • baldmitch
    baldmitch Posts: 90 Member
    I'm exclusively incline bench when it comes to benching, elbows in, shoulder-width grasp.

    Also did db flies and lat lifts for upper body yesterday. Not much weight, 15lb to 20 lb, 10-15reps / 4 sets each. For triceps, just some standard forward and reverse-overhead cable stuff.
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