Shoulder Pain and Strength

One of the recent improvements that I've noticed in my shoulder is that increased strength helps me manage the residual pain.What I mean is this:  previously when I moved my arm and felt pain, there was also weakness and that compounded the tendency to give in to the pain. As strength has increased, I will push through certain painful movements instead of giving in to them. To me it seems that as I do this I experience less pain than I was experiencing previously.

It could be that the completed movements are exercising the affected areas, and as a result there is less pain.  Also it could be that it's mental. Because I move through the pain more easily with the increased strength, I subconsciously discount the pain message and move anyway.

Physical, mental or maybe even both, my strength has incased and that's getting me down the road to a more complete recovery.  I'm still marking a lot of this quick recent improvement to the results of using the Les Mills Pump workouts. The barbell is doing the trick. My right shoulder is coaxed into performing as well as my right shoulder.

Still Sold On Les Mills Pump

I'm thinking that this will be my last week of physical therapy. Unless the therapist and doc can give me really compelling reasons to continue with that program, I'm really satisfied with - heck, I'm excited about - continuing the recovery using Les Mills Pump.

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I've been suggesting this BeachBody program to a number of younger guys that I thought could benefit from its high energy/high reps approach to barbell exercise. Then I realized that, at middle age facing senior citizen status, I'm an excellent candidate for Pump.

Still feeling weak in my right shoulder from bone spur surgery on June 1st, I started this past weekend using the bar without any weight. Immediately I saw that using the barbell gave me feedback to work the right side harder in order to keep the bar level.

I've added 5 lbs to the bar the past couple of days and the shoulder is doing great. There is some soreness from doing the exercise, bur it is much less than it had been earlier.  Soon I'll start adding different weight amounts that will be appropriate for what I can handle on that particular exercise.

Using Pump is literally like waking up the muscles in my back and shoulder. It just happens to be the scratch for my particular itch, but if you are having a shoulder issue, I'm on board for highly recommending Les Mills Pump. Check it out at http://beachbodycoach.com/drrmc.

Pumping My Way To Total Recovery

Recovery from surgery on my shoulder has gone like I expected even though I being told that I'm doing great compared to others. I'm still very weak in my right shoulder and haven't been able to get back into P90X. I had planned that this would be the summer that I tore it up on X. Spring workouts were going fantastic. In fact, I was doing Insanity workouts along with my X workouts.

The problem was a bone spur in my right shoulder that developed as a result of a torn rotator cuff I didn't even know I had. In fact the doctor said it was a very "impressive" bone spur. She said she had to dig around a bit in the shoulder to clean things up. But she didn't do any muscle work or  graphs - just spur removal. So I'm a bit put out and bothered by the persistent post operative weakness in my shoulder.

I am excited about a work-around that I'm trying out. Where P90X uses dumbbells, Les Mills Pump uses barbells. Dumbells accentuate the weaknesses in opposing arms. Barbells provide some equity between the relative strengths of the left and right arms and shoulders. So I'm starting on the Les Mills program as a path to recovering my strength in my right shoulder and arm. After reviewing the program I think I've hit on a great plan.

So today is my first day of Les Mills. I'll continue to post the progress and nutrition here and show the results. But I am so looking forward to getting back to P90X and Insanity just as soon as I can.

Well, as they say in Les Mills Pump, "Kia Haha!"  Be Strong!