FITNESS
BY JUSTIN GRINNELL
Dealing with pain There are ways to adjust your workout when in pain
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t doesn’t matter if it comes from working out, a sport, an activity, or just from daily habits. We all will have to learn how to deal with pain. When most people get injured, they get very discouraged and discontinue their current workout regimen. This is a common roadblock but, believe me, it is one that can be busted through. This affects people’s confidence. They sometimes think they can’t do anything physical until their injury clears up. Depending on the situation, being sedentary is the worst thing you can do. DISCLAIMER: Always follow your doctor’s orders and check with your physician before you engage in any activity during and after an injury. Cautiously, you need to continue to stay active to keep the rest of your body strong, resilient, and to improve the recovery process when your injury heals. Here are five common injuries, and how you can train around them. Make sure to check with your doctor before embarking on a fitness program if you have one of these injuries.
Injured shoulder
The shoulders seem to be involved in so many exercises that, when someone has pain, it is very discouraging to keep exercising. I don’t blame them. A bum shoulder can bother you in day-today events, mostly due to poor posture. That is a sure sign that you need to keep your upper-back strong and shoulder complex mobile. Clients who keep working on their core, upper back and leg strength, and who do not stop their workouts, recover much faster from the surgery or physical therapy than the ones who decide not to keep up their fitness routine. If a certain movement hurts, don’t do it. With shoulder pain avoid pushups, bench press, overhead pressing, and other upper-body pushing movements to salvage your shoulder. Instead, target horizontal rowing such as cable rows, dumbbell rows, and TRX Strap rows to focus on keeping the upper-back strong, which will also help improve your posture. Also, perform core and lower-body work, and pick other exercises that don’t bother your shoulder.
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