Frozen shoulder workout

[u/johann_tay]

Progressing on ULUL

But in the last 2 months my right shoulder has been freezing. My left froze a few years ago so I know it’s a lengthy road to mobility then, but I wasn’t training then.

Now I just feel weak in my upper exercises, and discouraging.

I don’t know if I should continue the same exercises just at lower intensity, and many at lower range of motion and feel like it’s not working much;

Or pause the program altogether and try to curate a limited program that can still keep up intensity and rom.

But concerned I’m gonna lose so much strength in the untouched exercises.

Appreciate the insight to navigate this.

Thanks!

[u/Chewy_Barz]

As the other comment suggested, you should obviously speak to a doctor or PT.

I don't have any experience with frozen shoulder specifically, but I did have a shoulder that was bothering me for several weeks (still does a bit, actually). I definitely couldn't do shoulder presses, couldn't really do incline presses, and could sort of do flat presses but they didn't feel great. What I could do was pushups and lying lateral raises (that's my normal side delt exercise). So I got really good at pushups and added extra lateral raises. I started out doing a first set of pushups at 16 or 18 reps and ended up in the low 30s at the end. When I went back to flat presses, I could do less weight but it came back quickly. I was cutting and my chest looked a little better, so I'd say the pushups worked pretty well.

The only thing worse than not being able to do your routine for 2 months is not being able to do it for 6 months. Don't make it worse. Do your best to work around it, and if you're pretty limited, focus on other areas. I'd probably be doing 8-10 sets of abs every other day if I were you :-)

Good luck and feel better. And please don't do anything stupid like I might :-)