This hurts when I bench press, how can I fix it?
Bros i swear i dint have a pec muscle that goes below my nipples. Am i just not hitting my lower pecs hard enough or do people sometimes have shirt pec inserts?
all barbell lifts are memes for tryhards
>>76626148Tryhard is never an insult, imagine being an aloof faggot your whole life.
I did twice as much horizontal pulling than pushing and it got better
I have this too bro. Not sure what I did wrong. There was never a point in time where I felt an injury happen. I am using the chest press machine and the shoulder press machine with the hammer grip. I am able to still get good workouts. Might go back to barbells when the pain goes away, or just accept I am a boomer who needs to use machines to stay healthy. One trip to snap city can cause you massive delays in your gains so its prudent to just be a machine fag desu.
>>76626085>hurtsYou mean you feel more stress, burn, and soreness at the distal attachment point? That's normal, especially for beginners. If you want to feel it medially, you can do butterfly machine and squeeze hard at the middle (full contraction).Or do you mean HURT hurt?
>>76626228not OP but my pain is not normal muscle soreness or doms. Feels like rotator cuff or something to do with the joint. I got mine from doing incline smith machine bench press. Something about it seemed to really stress the fuck out of my shoulders. I think if it was a free barbell I would be better off.
>>76626237Same, that's why I stopped benching
>>76626237Free barbell or dumbell is obviously preferable. Also tuck elbows.
>>76626085You have rounded shoulders and are developing kyphosis and/or winged scapula.which begins to increasingly put pressure on the pec minor and front shoulder joint.it's a postural issue, check the c7, t1 spine posture (do you feel excessive pressure around the traps or scapula all day, not pain, but pressure).
>>76626282>rounded shoulders and are developing kyphosisHow to fix this?
>>76626228OP here I hurt the left side once, audibly heard a weird sound probably a tendon rip, took months to heal.Then I started working back up was fine for about a month felt nothing and now I feel the right side is gonna get hurt the same way as the left side if I push myself any harder.I'm not a beginner my max used to be 170kg before the injury I was aiming for 4pl8 but never got there. Now it is probably 155-160kg but every time I go over 120kg in training I feel a "warning" feeling that if I go harder I will snap again so I just pussy out.The changes I did were going from 3 times a week to 2 times a week frequency for more recovery and I added light db flies and spoto press to the routine since I can feel the area a lot when I do those and Im hoping to get that area stronger but idk if tendons can even get stronger.Might need to invest in some bands and do 5-10 min warm up before jumping under the barbell.
>>76626374Dang dude, if you're that strong you should probably hire a coach, at least long enough to figure this out
>>76626374>my max is probably X>but if I go higher than .66X, I think my entire upper body is going to snapUh huh
>>76626514ahem 120 is 75% of 160 anon and I do that for reps it just feels iffy by the end
>>76626329Back and chest exercises. Also stretching.
>>76626085It’s tendinitis. Take a lacrosse ball and massage around the area it feels sore for about a minute at a time
>>76626085pec tendon
>>76626105You have gyno
>>76626834Haha
>>76626597>>76626822So what's to be done about it? Is there a fix?It also hurts when I try to do lat pulldowns (stretch at the top) so I stopped doing them completely.For bench press it hurts when I go all the way down touching my chest.
>>76626923>For bench press it hurts when I go all the way down touching my chest.it's as if trying to use pecs while muscle is strung along ribcage and can't work properly profoundly retarded isn't it? cause u know elbows are down and shoulders are down and back meanwhile u want want to work pecs with protracted shoulders and scapulae spread to the sides and posteriorily tilted so that pecs can flex properly without ribcage interference study this bloated retard: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vc1d9UNqzdYare shoulders retracted? no, is he locking? far from it, is he going down with weight? never - he is basically weighing the weight, checking how heavy it feels with protracted shoulders and that's whole exercise, very close to isometric hold, completely the opposite way of proper "bench" technique>>76627698>drumroll: u weren't ever doing calves, cause gastrocnemius bends the knee bot like in heel-hook it doesn't extend the knee like in calf raisesand ditto for pecs - u were never doing pecs with bench, u were at best trying to snap your pecs with your remtardation, whatever grew is malformed
>>76626923Why not just do more reps with lower weightYou won't get bigger as fast but you'll strengthen that connective tissue by going at a slower pace. I'm a volumtard and enjoy it.
>>76627730Because I want to hit new PRs... but yea thats what Im doing
>>76627717I like rock gyms, when they're empty, otherwise it's full of safty fags who won't let you do shit because you'll hurt yourself
>>76626085I have a fairly obscure theory that the artist drawing these illustrations is a homosexual. There's not a chance in the world a straight guy would spend time meticulously drawing all that body hair in that specific way. Call me crazy but this is faggot art
>>76628430Well of course, but tendon injuries and the like take a long time to heal, so you need a way to fill the intervening months
>>76629956Sure but how would I stop it from happening again in the future lets say it did heal I would just repeat the same things that caused it to happen
>>76626085Whenever I see this brown cartoon character I always know I don’t have to listen to it.
>>76630099Your tendons grow and get stronger, it just takes time. They don't grow as fast as muscle, if you injure one it can take a year or more depending on where it is. Talk to a sports medicine doctor for proper advice, other wise just be patient and pay attention to what your body is telling you. developing this awareness is a a skill you need to develop, it doesn't happen overnight.
>>76626923>So what's to be done about it? Is there a fix?use a much narrower grip, it will severely reduce strain on the pec tendon attached to your shoulder while keeping overall muscular activity nearly identicalit should fix it completely, did for me at least
>>76626085Your shoulders are internally rotated, possibly the socket is forward pinching the nerves, do banded rotations and rotator cuff external exercises, lastly put a band on your wrists and do a bench motion to train your eotatorito activate during bench, if necessary add the band during your bench.
>>76630302ill try it thanks>>76630354I mean i try to keep scapula retracted so could shoulders still be internally rotated when you do that
FYI, you mostly control your shoulder position by controlling your elbows and neck. Try to tuck the elbows against your sides through the motion instead of letting them flare outward, and make your neck long against the bench.
>>76631066I wonder how much weaker I will be with tucked elbows. I have literally never thought about my elbow position on bench in over a decade of lifting lol
>>76626085>This hurts when I bench press, how can I fix it?sthap bench pressing imbecile - simple as >>76631243PROPER bench technique will ruin pecs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1d9UNqzdY&pp=ygUQamF5IGN1dGxlciBiZW5jaA%3D%3Dsee? protracted shoulders and zero rom, exactly what i am describing bot :D
>>76631258thats a guillotine press
>>76626085Swap from a normal barbell to a Swiss barbell for awhile. I own a T bar like picrel and it does a pretty good job of helping me out when my my joints hurt
>>76626085Work your shoulders out. They are weak. Also warm your rotators up before doing chest.
