Military Press shoulder problem

[thewick]

So when I'm doing military presses, I feel great the whole way through. Even when I hold the bar still to rack it, I don't feel anything. When I finally take my hands off of the bar and relax my arms, I get this deep pain in the front of my right shoulder and it goes away after about 3-4 seconds. Should I stay away from Military Presses from now on and substitute something else or what's going on?

[SuicideGripMe]

Take a week off from military pressing. Watch some videos on youtube of military press technique. Check hand placement, etc. Is there pain when you do push presses? How bout BTN presses? DB presses?

[PBJTime]

So when I'm doing military presses, I feel great the whole way through. Even when I hold the bar still to rack it, I don't feel anything. When I finally take my hands off of the bar and relax my arms, I get this deep pain in the front of my right shoulder and it goes away after about 3-4 seconds. Should I stay away from Military Presses from now on and substitute something else or what's going on?

I would try neutral grip presses for now and see if that helps. I would say it sounds like impingement, but if it's not hurting on the way up, that wouldn't make much sense.

The next thing I think of is rotator cuff weakness. If your rotator cuff is not holding that humeral head in the socket correctly, then it could be "catching" or a few other issues. Do you ever do any rotator cuff exercises? You could try some internal rotation, external rotation, and scaption exercises with a cable and LIGHT weight for a few weeks to see if that helps.

If it is impingement, then I would definitely avoid any behind the neck stuff or anything similar.

Just throwing out some ideas.