For those of you that have had a shoulder injury before, you will know how uncomfortable and painful it is. Especially obtaining a shoulder injury after a workout session, this tends to happen very often and proves to be extremely sore. When talking about a shoulder injury, aching, sharp pains in the front of the shoulder are being referred to. A very common dangerous shoulder exercise includes reaching behind your back or other activities where you are required to lay on your shoulder. This normally occurs when practicing overhead activities that require major muscle stretching and flexibility.

These symptoms that one might experience sometimes indicate rotator cuff inflammation. This is a common scenario for trainers that practice their resistance exercises daily, but it is a problem that can be resolved if the correct advice if followed accordingly:

The Lat Pull Downs are great exercises if you wish to strengthen your back slightly, but when it is practiced behind the head, it is likely going to cause complications. When you pull the bar down behind your head, you are positioning your humerus in a way that it can be damaged by the rotator cuff being severely pinched. This is not a promise that you will get hurt, but it is a possibility. It might also depend on the shape of your acromion as well as the degree of possible arthritis. You should always keep your body straight when practicing this exercise, portraying no swaying movement. The correct way to do it is to ensure that you are pulling the bar toward the sternum. Another reason why one should not practice behind the neck pull downs is because it can put unnecessary pressure on the cervical spine.

Another one of the dangerous shoulder exercises is the Military Press. If this exercise is performed taking the bar behind the neck it positions the shoulder in the above mentioned uncomfortable position and if practiced over and over again it may cause the rotator cuff to be inflamed. The correct way to perform this exercise is in front of the head or by using dumbbells. When doing this try to prevent arching the lower back and use a bench that can provide you with maximum back support.

The Upright Row can also be dangerous as it once again entails the shoulder to shift past the 90 degree angle, and moving past this point is not safe at all. In order to protect the shoulder and rotator cuff, you should only practice the exercise until you reach the 90degree angle, stop there and repeat the exercise.

Many people will say that the Dumbbell Lateral Raise exercise is sometimes not performed correctly as the trainer will lift too much weight, more than they can handle, keeping their arms straight throughout the routine and by lifting the arms out away from the body in the plane of the body. This is dangerous as it puts pressure on the small rotator cuff muscles. When heavy weights are picked up at the wrong time is when the damage normally occurs. It is very important that this exercise be performed correctly.

The Bench Press is also a very common exercise practiced to strengthen and build the chest as well as the triceps and maybe even the deltoid. The way that it is normally practiced is by slowly bringing down the bar until it touches the chest but some say this is an unsafe way to do it as it exposes the anterior shoulder capsule to too much weight and squeezing the soft tissue of the rotator cuff between the acromion and the humerus.