rotator cuff - shoulder (snap, crackle, little pops) - without weights!

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I haven't lifted weights for ages, but was considering a flat
benchpress ('cos a flat bench - the bench itself - is convenient to
hide away). I looked up ways to prevent rotator cuff injury that can
result from it.

I did a few rotator cuff stretches and exercises, no heavy weight.
Then to test how it felt, I tried a military press motion and
benchpress motion without a weight, and heard those crackling noises.
Does that mean I did the exercises and stretches wrongly?

I think in the past when I first started exercising , I got a few crack
noises when doing military press, and after a week or two, when
exercising, they did stop

 

[locker]

[email protected] wrote:
> I haven't lifted weights for ages, but was considering a flat
> benchpress ('cos a flat bench - the bench itself - is
convenient to
> hide away). I looked up ways to prevent rotator cuff injury
that can
> result from it.
>
> I did a few rotator cuff stretches and exercises, no heavy
weight.
> Then to test how it felt, I tried a military press motion and
> benchpress motion without a weight, and heard those crackling
> noises. Does that mean I did the exercises and stretches
wrongly?

Is there pain with the movements? If there's no pain, warm up
your shoulders good before your working sets then work with a
light weight until the cracking/pops stop or you determine
there's not going to be any pain. One or two weeks sounds good.

I usually get a rotator cuff injury if I do too many reps and
sets in the bench. Heavy weight is ok but not a lot of reps. I
also do one board presses so my shoulders don't get pulled down
as far. You can use a 10 or 25 lb plate if your don't have any
boards. Place it on your chest and lower the bar to the plate.
You can also do partial bench in a rack if you have access to
one.

Always warm up your shoulders before doing any upper body
pushing exercises.


locker

>
> I think in the past when I first started exercising , I got a
few
> crack noises when doing military press, and after a week or
two,
> when exercising, they did stop