Exactly. If you have postural issues or a muscle imbalance, it's probably due to you either working the body evenly, but having existing imblanaces from the off, which theerfore never get corrected, or you have been using a programme or programmes, that provide unequal workout methods, causing cert...

Lesplease wrote:balance your workouts.

Thank you. explain please... What am I doing OUT of balance when I use equal weights on bb's and db's?

swanso5 wrote:it's posture and muscular imbalance that's causing it

straight bar shoulder and bench pressing just makes it a lot worse

Thank you.
I thought I was paying attention to the posture, but how do I address the muscular imbalance....?

- seated rows, standing rows, db rows, chest supported rows, bent rows, face pulls, scarecrows etc - for db's still go as heavy as you can..if you set up like suggested then you still should be able to lift poain free with relatively heavy wt...be cionservative though if you're not sure - So its th...

more then likely an impingement 1 - drop all straight bar pressing, shoulder and chest and do db's only in a pain free range of motion 2 - for every chest and shoulder rep you do then you must do 2 rowing reps which will mean a decrease of one or an increase of the other or both also for your rowin...

I need some advise. I'm new to this and older… :( This January I turned 52 yrs old. Although fairly active, I have never worked out in life or joined a gym. Frankly time is at a premium as Im self -employed. Anyway In Jan I decided to start strength training and purchased a Marcy MD-805 weight bench...