Excrutiating shoulder pain when benching.

[Cronus]

I get ready to do some good ol benching, warm up, stretch, then start with a couple of sets of flats, move on to incline, then decline. By the time I've reached decline, my left shoulder has this sharp pain, when I try to lift, it just dies on me. I'm not sure if its a rotator cuff injory, because over head movements don't do this to my shoulder. And its only on my left shoulder, my right shoulder feels fine. I've been trying some cuban rotations, it feels like its strengthening. So what could the problem be?

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[Adam Knowlden]

Yes, in order to help we need specific details. Injury analysis is harder to diagnosis and treat over the net as we can not see you. Therefore for everyone, we need very specific details.

[Cronus]

It feels like its in between the frontal and medial delt, more on the medial side, a couple of inches inside. I think its also the bone in my shoulder. Its a weird pain, its hard to describe, it feels like a bruised muscle, it renders my arm useless.
Lately, it hasn't been as bad, I also find it hard to raise my arm to take a drink from my bottle after I'm done with a couple of sets.

[MC-JayCore]

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It feels like its in between the frontal and medial delt, more on the medial side, a couple of inches inside

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I had a similar pain in my left shoulder middle of last year when benching, and I figured it must've been my RC. So I really hit my RC's hard, doing cubans, external rotations etc, and now I never have the pain anymore.

[Satch]

Definitely work on those rotator cuffs. MC Jaycore and I have been working on RC strength for a long time now. I seriously think I'd be more likely to injure my tricep benching now than a rotator.

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[book]

Yup that sounds like your infraspinautes/teres major (or is it minor..one of them) insertion points. Lay off the bench/anything that causes the pain and start working your RC. Check the back articles for an in depth answer

[Cronus]

Thanks everyone!!!

Today was an awesome chest day, I had a little pain, but not as serious as other days. I've been training my rotator cuff these past 2 weeks, so its all good.
Lay off benching? ArE yOu CrAzY mAn?!:p
I'm cutting, and I don't want to lose any mass.
I've been using lighter weights and lower volume, but I'm definitely not stopping it completely, tapering is key. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif