Shoulder Injury....?

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OK today when i was doing my inclined dumb bell chest work out my shoulder just locked up.. My whole arm wen limp and i dropped the weight... It still hurts when i put it in certain situations...I'm pretty sure its just a pulled muscle or strained...This ever happened to anyone else??

Could be a strained muscle...or it could be something much worse (torn rotator cuff, ligament damage, etc.) If it starts feeling OK within a few days, you're probably fine. But if it stays sore, you have to have it looked at by a doctor.

This is why I'm a little leery about working out with dumbells (except very light ones) and free weights. It's a lot harder to hurt yourself on the machines, since they limit your range of motion.

There's one trainer for fifty people. Most of us don't know what we're doing.

i knew what i was doing... i had done it quite a few times before, and the weights weren't even heavy it was my warm up... and yes i stretched before

I'm not sure that stretching buys you a lot, but it's possible that you moved just the wrong way for a moment, or maybe there already was a joint issue (previous injury, etc.) that made it more mechanically sensitive.I was exaggerating about freeweight/dumbell knowledge. Most of the people in the gym know what they are doing. But I don't.

Last week I had something similar happen. I was putting on my shirt right when the phone rang and I quickly tried to get dressed when my shoulder locked up. Or maybey it popped out of the socket, Iam not sure. It went limp and hurt so damn much the pain was making me nauseated. It took a few minutes for the intense pain to go away, but the soreness remained for two more days. I have this happen twice already and I have to force myself to move slower. These injuries I think are caused by being too hyper.

Show me the evidence. The stuff I read recently said that stretching actually increases risk of injury.You might as well cast a spell to protect yourself.

To be honest, I don't really strech. I just start out light till I get warmed up.

That sounds good. I start on the treadmill to get warmed up, increasing the speed as I go. Then, when I get on a machine, the first rep or two is kind of slow and tentative, just to make sure that nothing is pulled or sore or screwed up, before I really get going.

When you warm up and stretch, you warm up your muscles... making them "longer" and more flexible... the warmer your muscles the less chance for injury...Stretching also increases your flexibility, and your potentil muscle growth... My soccer coach was telling me about it

Have your soccer coach provide us some references. I can find articles to the contrary.

yeah? i can find shit on the net that says the Holocaust never happenedBelieve what you want to believe... But why do i see 99% of all pro athletes stretch before a game or practise?? Why did i have to go through 30minutes of stretching at my soccer try outs?

Sometimes people get so mad when you disagree with them.We're not talking about "shit" here, we're talking about factual information (actually, statistical information). Sometimes people do things because "this is how we've always done it", and they just keep doing it that way, and it passes on to the next generation.The people who did the studies were university research folks, not some flakos. Some things carry little weight (Holocaust-denying stuff), and some things carry a lot of weight (a well-done, statistically valid scientific study with careful gathering of statistical data).If you're really interested in finding information about this, rather than just contradicting me, don't be lazy...look it up. Don't get the wrong idea. These papers don't prove anything. But neither is there proof that stretching, as done by most people, reduces injury or increases performance.Here's a head start:In reply to:The scientific literature includes some recent papers that are most interesting. I. Shrier, Clin J Sport Med 1999 9(4):221-7), is a reasonably careful-looking review of prior literature on stretching and injury prevention. It has the rather suggestive title "Stretching before exercise does not reduce the risk of local muscle injury". You can guess the conclusion; there is not a lot of evidence for injury reduction following stretching in warm-up.Another group of papers, typified by Church et al, J Strength Cond Res 2001 Aug;15(3):332-6, examines the effect of prior stretching on actual muscle performance. They looked in particular at PNF, an extreme stretching exercise. I quote:A post hoc analysis revealed decreased vertical jump performances for the PNF treatment group. Based on the results of this study, performing PNF before a vertical jump test would be detrimental to performance."

It is true that incorrect stretching can increase risk of injury. I usually run about 1/2 mile before any type of workout whether it's lifting or running. Personally I like to lift a lighter "warm-up" set first, then hit my 3-5 heavy sets. I've had this problem as well but you should probably use the dumbells less frequently and use the freeweights more often because it's harder to hurt yourself that way.