Trying to be a bit more compliant with exercise and here’s my no good deed goes unpunished tale.
To the extent I’ve done stuff in the past, I’ve tended to embrace the backlash against “mirror muscles” (pecs and biceps esp.), not least on the theory that you can build a heck of a lot more useful lean protein mass through, say, squats. So my upper body lifting capacity has tended to be comparatively less. Trying to balance this out a bit, I’ve been pushing a bit on things like chest press, shoulder press, pushups (believe me, the numbers would still not awe anyone).
But another thing I’m running up against, and now remembering as a contributing factor to my shying away from these types of exercise, is that I’m getting a soreness or kind of troubling, on-the-brink-of-popping-something-out feeling with these lifts. Accompanied by a looseness/cracking of various bones after I do these. Thing is, I’ve read up on shoulder separation, dislocation, subluxation (almost always in the context of rotator cuff problems). Those articles seem to focus on pain/awkward movement at the edge of the shoulder or the top of the tricep. But my kind of fingers-on-a-chalkboard, should-it-really-feel-like-that sensation seems to be closer to the juncture of my clavicle and my neck; to the extent like it feels that “things are moving in a way they maybe shouldn’t be,” it doesn’t seem to extend outward of the mid-shoulder.
So – am I being complacent ruling out subluxation/rotary cuff problems? Is there a separate clavicle separation (I made that up) that I should be worried about? What shoulder/chest exercises are “too aggressive” (at least for a comparative beginner) or “too unbalanced” (ditto), and which are better?
Naturally, YANA doctor/trainer, etc. (not mine, at least), and I’ll seek and rely on formal med. advice IRL – just looking for some pointers to issues I may not have considered.