Shoulder burning during pull ups

[StarShine1975]

Hello fellow rebels.

I've been doing assisted pull ups/chin ups for a while now. About 1.5 weeks ago, I went from 80 lbs assistance to 70 lbs assistance on a chin up. I did 2 and felt a hot searing pain in my left shoulder (deltoid muscle). I immediately stopped. I did some assisted dips (without incident) and went back to assisted pull ups at 90lbs. The burn/pain was still there. I gave up on them for the day.

I've not done them for about a week and a half and during that time, I have not felt the burn/pain in any other movement including when doing lat pulldowns. I tried them again this morning and the burn/pain was still happening. Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how I can fix this? I thought resting it and starting back up at a higher level assistance would do it. I'm going to try doing chair assisted pull ups tonight and see if I can feel it on those. I'm hoping that it's just the angle my shoulder is at on the assisted machine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Star-Shine

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It's pretty much impossible to diagnose these things over the internet, but it doesn't seem too bad.

Are you warming up properly? Shoulder circling specifically.

[Ryan Sannar]

YOu could have an undiagnosed case of tendonitis. See a PT if your worried or it doesn't go away. I'd suggest cutting out any shoulder work for a week and a half and trying again first though.

[StarShine1975]

I haven't been doing shoulder circling. I'll try that for a few weeks and try again.

I find it strange that I don't feel anything when I do lat pulldowns or shoulder presses. I only feel it when doing a chin/pull up. I'll do the warm up and try the chair assisted pull up tonight and let you know how it goes.

[Ryan Sannar]

Yeah the rotator cuff is a complicated muscle [ATTACH=CONFIG]2600[/ATTACH]

It can be any one of the four main ligaments, which is why some shoulder exercises may hurt more than others.

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It could be the deltoids as well.