>only four weeks into lifting >rotator cuff is sore and

>>42386003
Correct, nobody who ever made it got sore or had tendonitis before

All athletes have never been injured before

>>42386016
alright anon, i'll get back in the gym in the morning

just for you

>>42386003
>giving up after 4 weeks because of minor pain

You're right you weren't meant to make it.
I've been out for about 4-5months with what was thought to be rotator cuff tendonitis. No improvement, might be a tear.
Been doing legs, abs every othe day and am dying because I can't do upper body, hopefully will be back soon.
So go ahead and give up, leave the gains for the rest of us you pussy. Sage.

>>42386003
Could be worse. I just snapped my shit up real bad doing dips yesterday. Chest feels like it took a couple dozen haymakers from Mike Tyson. Internet tales of people suffering from inflammation for months or years afterwards has me sweating a bit.

>>42386046
Are you benching? Most gym-goers bench wrong

>bench pressing with the proprioception of a waffle

>>42386003
ive had shoulder pain for the last 3 years...luckily it only really hurts when i do wide grip military press or DB press...so for shoulders do a narrower grip press then the rest of my routine

Just find a way to train around the injury. If you cant then look up online methods to deal with it

>>42386173
Yep. Incline and flat bench. Idk how my form is, the PT said it was fine but he only watched me with just the bar.

>>42386003
What routine? SS? SL?

>>42386003
not all is lost, OP, I have a feeling you'd make a cute trap

>>42386222
I do strong squats

>>42386222
P/P/L, pretty much the coolcicada one from google/bodybuilding.com, except I added a bunch of accessories (dips, hanging leg/knee lifts, pullups).

Slow down. It's a journey, not a race etc, etc.

Give yourself an extra day off to recover until your body adapts to being worked out so intensely. You could also just lower the weight; I continue to workout through minor muscle/joint soreness. I just lower the weight and spend the time focusing on form.

>>42386276
>I added accessories
That program is already 6 exercises per day, brah.

>accessories
This is the problem. People keep saying "accessory" in a non-powerlifting context. If you're bodybuilding, you don't have "accessories". "Accessory" is not a bodybuilding concept. You have compound/multi-joint lifts (which is where dips and pullups belong, btw) and you have isolation/single-joint lifts.

Anyhow, you need to deload and work on some mobility stuff now. You might need to take a solid two weeks off if it's not getting any better from mobility.

I recommend
>band external rotations
>band internal rotations
>light (like 2lb) v-dumbbell raises (inbetween a lateral raise and a front raise, with the thumb up like in the hammer position)
>strict rear delt flies (2lb weight again), preferably from lying on a high flat bench or table.
>lying Y-raise
>lying W-raise (both with light 2lb weights)

>>42386016
This, you can bitch when you break/tear something.

>>42386393
I work out 7 days a week, and typically do some cardio (either a 2.5 mile jog or about 20 minutes of HIIT) about four nights a week. Is that too much? I was under the impression that overtraining is a meme, especially at the weight I'm doing (one plate bench, one and a half plates squat, etc.).

I'm 5'9" 160 lbs, pretty skinnyfat, if it matters.

>>42386534
>>42386393

Also, I get about 1800 calories and 120g protein a day. My TDEE varies depending on the calculator I use (I've seen it as low as 2300 and as high as 2900), but I'm not seeing a ton of lost weight or improved muscle definition yet. Again, I've only really been following a routine for about four weeks, but still.

m8 I've had chronic tendinitis in both of my forearms for ten years, and I just hit lmao3pl8 last week. I mean crying in the fetal position, can't make a fist tendinitis.
Talk to your doctor or PT or something, they'll give you stuff to do/not do.