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I had my shoulder repaired about 15 years ago for chronically dislocating. Recently, it has been giving me trouble. I think I sleep on it and it stretches out and then it just hurts all the next morning and day...even to shift my car and lift and reach for things.

I'm in the 4th week of Insanity and the last few workouts, I haven't been able to do push-ups and today could not even do planks. I modify to keep my heart rate up but I've looked at some of the "max" dvds and there seems to be a lot of shoulder work.

I'm afraid that I'm not going to be able to the last 4 weeks 100% and it's pretty frustrating.

Has anyone else had a shoulder injury which prevented them from getting the "insane" workout they wanted to do?

Previously, I had to allow weeks for complete rest so it would heal and after some physical therapy, I was able to slowly get back into arm exercises.

I can't do the plyo in Saturday because I'll be out of town and next week is recovery week so I'll rest it then but I was just wondering if anyone else had similar issues and how they coped!

Thanks for any input!
Kathy

Hi Deb! I'm glad to hear you are able to do push-ups again! It sure is frustrating not being able to keep up with the moves due to injury.

I think I have shoulder bursitis. I had surgery over 15 years ago and recently had one round of physical therapy for the pain. They gave me small, isolated exercises like "external rotation", "external rotation in abduction", "Prone horizontal abduction in neutral and full external rotation 100 degree abduction". They also had me do some rhomboid strengthening. They had me do that before going back to normal exercises.

I decided along with ice, and massage (good idea!), I'll start doing those exercises again.

So, we are about to embark on Insanity Max and I figure I'll just modify all the moves I can't do. Huzzah for recover week!

Have you checked back in with a Dr. recently?

You sound headed down a road I once went down. That road was two years to recover. Don't go there, ditch the bothersome exercises and rest the shoulder except for those PT exercises. The pain you describe seems acute to me and is a very strong warning.

Try replacing push ups with resistance band exercises. As I was recovering I couldn't do push ups or bench press with free weights without pain. But, I could use resistance bands and my Bowflex(resistance) to do bench press(basically a weighted pushup).

Six years ago is when I came out of recovery. Just did P90X and push ups still bother my shoulders. Watch where your elbows are in relation to the shoulder to make sure it's not a problem with form.

You're right pyro13g. I did the first Insanity Max today and barely moved my right arm. As an example, when they did the one arm plank punches, I just did my physical therapy moves with my arm band. My heart rate went way down so it seemed harder to get back into the aerobic part of the workout but if that's what I have to do to keep fit, then that's what I'll do!

I have seen a doctor and they sent me to my physical therapist who is AMAZING. I know the exercises to do and I'll continue to do them (and avoid pushups, etc) until it feels slightly better. Then I'll go back to PT and they'll give me some new exercises. And hopefully I will be able to be ready for P90X. (we start that again in another month)

In the meantime, it's all about adapting. I need to prep and plan ahead and swap out exercises that I can't do with ones I can.

joelp57 -
I'm familiar with knee pain. I had ACL replacement less than 10 years ago and my knee is always up and down, depending on my activities. I tried running again and that just made it way worse so I stopped..that was right before we started P90X. Thank goodness Tony H advises to be very careful with the knees to avoid the pain.

The popping and swelling can be a concern so take it easy!
That's how I found out my knee was bad years ago because it would pop and swell when I was out working in the yard. Then it started locking up. Daily. After 3 rounds of PT, and having my knee lock up mutilple times a day, I finally had an MRI. That's when I found out I had no ACL. The doctor said that popping noise was probably my meniscus tearing so please be careful!
5 days after my surgery, my quad muscle was so atrophied. I was surprised how quickly it goes. I'm glad I had the surgery but when my knee pops now, I listen to it and take it easy.

Hang in there!
We can work out with injuries but just pyro13g said, we need to be very careful with those affected areas.

Take care!
Kathy