Pain during J of C&J

[2Old2lift]

This might not fit into this forum but...Im new to Oly lifting and in my zeal to increase flexibility, I was working at being able to rack the bar and also to begin to clean squat.

So I was doing front squats and also simply taking the bar off of the squat rack into a "racked" position (best I could), getting my elbows up and kinda lightly bounced it in this position a little before replacing it onto the squat rack. Sometimes I would do a couple of push presses.

Well subsequently I began having pain at about where my lats meet up with my rear delts when I jerk..typically as the bar rises to the top and when I lock out. In the earliest days of my training a few months ago I felt that this was coming from snatching and it seemed to bother me when I snatched also. It no longer bothers me when I snatch but still does when I jerk. I also feel it when I military or push press.

I know I need to space my workouts to about every fourth day to recover properly based on my experience lately (I'm 51), but assuming I'm doing that what can I do to alleviate this and still work on my racking and front squatting?

I've seen some of Glenn Pendlay's references to "complexes" which I'm guessing are assistance execercise for this sort of thing but I dont know which ones for this problem.

Also what is best for this heat or cold. I dont have any visible swelling. Thanks

[SeaOfTeeth]

If you press around the area and find soreness or pain, you may have just overworked one of your rotator cuff muscles. This happened to me and I ended up taking a week or so off from overhead work, doing massage or rolling on both the area and the muscles on the shoulder blade (it hurt like hell). Basically I treated it like extreme DOMS, but DOMS I wanted to get rid of completely before aggravating it into something worse.

(I'm not a doctor.)

[2Old2lift]

Originally Posted by SeaOfTeeth

If you press around the area and find soreness or pain, you may have just overworked one of your rotator cuff muscles. This happened to me and I ended up taking a week or so off from overhead work, doing massage or rolling on both the area and the muscles on the shoulder blade (it hurt like hell). Basically I treated it like extreme DOMS, but DOMS I wanted to get rid of completely before aggravating it into something worse.

(I'm not a doctor.)

Thanks.

There is no soreness to the touch and its not a real sharp pain its just a dull sort ofpain during a very short part of the motion. I'm thinking that in addition to ensuring adequate recovery between training, perhaps some chin-ups or pull downs as the afforementioned complexes might be what I need.

I'm still open to any suggestions though as I aint no doctor either and couldnt even play one on tv

[avl]

I developed a very similar pain to what you're describing when jerking and overhead pressing frequently whilst dieting down to drop a weight class recently. I put it down to a lack of recovery whilst not eating at maintenance and too much frequency

[joycallum]

The step should be taken only after proper consultation of doctor every time. There will be a chance of causing illness if there is no proper treatment or suggestion by the expert. First, you go and visit the doctor and check for the present condition of yours and then you may proceed further with his suggestion.