Reply To: Training Around a Shoulder Injury

[Matt]

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Joe, we are not Doctors or PTs so we cannot give you medical advice. I strongly recommend talking to someone if it does not seem to be getting better. Since you are in the area, Murph has a great network of people with letters after their names that can help in situations like this.
Suggestions for training. Even if squatting feels fine I’d switch all bars out for SSB temporary just to put less pressure on the joint. In that same vein, drop all pressing, and if you are going to do pressing, stick with dumbells.
You can keep in rowing movements and isolated tricep/bicep stuff as well.

For example in week 3 I’d make the following changes.
Day 1 SSB squat, drop TGU and do a deadbug or other static ab variation
Day 2 drop Bench, Try Flat DB press instead of decline, shut it down if any pain. The rows and planks should be fine.
Day 3 Maybe switch out ab wheel based on feel
Day 4 replace push ups with a tricep push down