Thread: Damn it!

Last night was a push workout, first 4 sets of Flat BB bench were fine. I struggled a little on the last with a little shoulder pain, not too bad. Got to incline DB and was screwed, I had to cut it short. It was to the point that when i was done I could hardly move my arm. This happened 10 or so months ago when I decided to focus on incline more and was doing heavy BB sets to open my workout. I figured it was the heavier weight on my shoulders and I decided that DB's were better and I try and keep it at the 100's. I've been fine on the 100's for 3-4 weeks with no pain. However, I bumped my flat bench up 15 lbs 5x5 the past two workouts, could it just be the sudden increase in weight? I bumped it up because I had to jump from 260 but didn't have any more small plated so I kicked off the little ones and put the 25's on. I can handle it fine with minimal discomfort but it's killing the inclines.

In your experience will this pass as I adjust to the load or do I have to puss out for a few weeks and rep out 225?

One other thought I had is that when I am putting the 100's up I have a "hammer curl" type grip when they are on my knees and I have to rotate them on the way up while holding the load unsupported. Could this be screwing me up? I do it on the way up and on the way down so that's a total of 10 loaded unnatural rotations.

Yeah I push my knees to my shoulders as much as possible. Anyone who has tried to hammer curl 100 lb dumbells knows just how necessary this is!

I'll try and emphasize it a little more, maybe I can just drop them after each set. I've bent them before doing that if they don't fall just right. I lift at home so another set of 100's is pricy.

I really think the problem is the increased load on Flat bench, may just be too much. Any of you roid rangers ever have joint problems from increasing loads in a short period of time?