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Chest pain right where deltoid meets chest

MrManlet

MrManlet

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Hey guys, took the weekend off of training then came back today more aggressive then ever. I was doing bench after I stretched (honestly I rushed through stretching today) and on one of my heavy sets I felt very aggressive so I did the movements hard and fast, and I’m gonna say about 3 reps in on 245 I started feeling a sharp jagged pain in my left pec, but I finished 3 more reps anyway figuring it was just the muscle stretching. However, this prevented me from doing anymore chest workouts and I ended up doing legs, but even picking up plates to put on the barbell was causing sharp pain! My question is, will this most likely resolve itself within a couple days? And what can I do in the gym to avoid taking off? Is pulling movements okay? Thanks for any advice
 
No one has experienced this? Any input appreciated. It’s two days later and while it doesn’t hurt at rest it does cause pain if I use the muscle at all
 
I will try to help, although it's not always easy to do so on the forum. My first guess is that it's a biceps tendonitis.

Watch some YouTube palpation videos to determine the structure. Then we can discuss some protocols.
 
I read something about that on google although I don’t understand how it would involve my bicep as the pain is only when I put strain on the pec itself
 
you mean your sternum? yes always aches and also if i sleep funny (arms in front)
 
It’s like the part of the front of your deltoid that connects to your chest. However I think I’d be able to workout shoulders without much discomfort. It’s only putting load directly on chest like push anything straight out. But I just admit, it’s simmered down a little bit the pst couple days so I do think it might resolve itself. And again, in case anyone else experiences this, it happened from benching, I believe my form broke and I pushed my elbows outwards putting stress on my deltoid which might of over stretched. Googling the symptoms gives scary descriptions of partial and full tears of the pectoral, however I don’t believe that’s what this is. I believe I simply put stress on the muscle in a way it’s not designed to handle causing an overstretch. I think it might take a week or two before I can return to heavy loads. I’ll report back with updates
 
Agreed. This isn't a pec tear. I'm still guessing biceps tendonitis.

When we stress the pec or delts in a suboptimal way (maybe going too deep for a common example), the long head of the biceps can try to kick in to stabilize the shoulder. Interestingly, I've encountered quite a few that don't have pain when working the biceps directly.

Again not diagnosing, just an internet guess.
 
Well regardless I appreciate the input. And yea I worked out my biceps yesterday and it didn’t cause pain, the only time I feel anything it’s slight (and I mean ever so slight) discomfort when I shrug my shoulders back to get into perfect form for bicep curls
 
It sounds like something is just slightly imbalanced from that one aggressive bench day.

I think 2 quick fixes that could help would be a cuff warm up and biceps/pec stretching.

Maybe you do these already but u can do internal and external rotations with a band. I prefer to do them super slow and really push blood into the muscle for 2 or 3 sets of 5 before any upper body days. But you probably could use any pace, set/rep combo that you prefer.

Then stretch your biceps and pecs often through out any upper routine. I don't think you need to stretch aggressively. Just do it going through the motions of the stretch to be sure a tight pec or biceps isn't the culprit in the first place.
 
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