Bad Bars Make Bad Shoulders?

[kook]

I have been doing BB complexes, 115lbs 4sets of 8 reps, 7 different exercises.(a few Oly lifts mixed in there)

I just grab any old bar laying around, they are nice bars, Ivanko, but the bar ends are crusty as hell. when I do hang cleans I can hear the ends squeaking and grinding.

I dislocated my left shoulder a few weeks ago, so I expect that to hurt, but now my right one is starting to bother me, I wondered if it was more the workload than the bar? and just need to get used to the work?

I know an ex oly lifter told me about the big difference he felt with free rolling bar ends, but I'm assuming he was cleaning 300+.

Any thoughts?

[IliekFude]

im sure it makes a HUGE difference having the plates able to rotate freely rather than have all that weight wanting to twist the bar in the palm of yr hand.

[Horse95]

I have been doing BB complexes, 115lbs 4sets of 8 reps, 7 different exercises.(a few Oly lifts mixed in there)

I just grab any old bar laying around, they are nice bars, Ivanko, but the bar ends are crusty as hell. when I do hang cleans I can hear the ends squeaking and grinding.

I dislocated my left shoulder a few weeks ago, so I expect that to hurt, but now my right one is starting to bother me, I wondered if it was more the workload than the bar? and just need to get used to the work?

I know an ex oly lifter told me about the big difference he felt with free rolling bar ends, but I'm assuming he was cleaning 300+.

Any thoughts?

What are BB complexes? Can you talk more about this. Sorry this is new to me.

[Polski Byk]

I have been doing BB complexes, 115lbs 4sets of 8 reps, 7 different exercises.(a few Oly lifts mixed in there)

I just grab any old bar laying around, they are nice bars, Ivanko, but the bar ends are crusty as hell. when I do hang cleans I can hear the ends squeaking and grinding.

I dislocated my left shoulder a few weeks ago, so I expect that to hurt, but now my right one is starting to bother me, I wondered if it was more the workload than the bar? and just need to get used to the work?

I know an ex oly lifter told me about the big difference he felt with free rolling bar ends, but I'm assuming he was cleaning 300+.

Any thoughts?

I dont think its the bar kook. When one shoulder is injured you will have a tendency to compensate with the other. Watch that. Try uni-lateral movements see what happens.

[kook]

What are BB complexes? Can you talk more about this. Sorry this is new to me.

I just do them for my cardio right now, pretty much load the bar, pick 5 or more exercises so for me it look like this
RDL
BBrows
Front squat
Hang clean
Back squat
High pull
Gm
I do 8 reps for the first, take a small rest, hit the next one, take a longer rest when finished all exercises, and I run through this 4 times, takes about 30 minutes or so.

I guess it's just HIIT.

[kook]

im sure it makes a HUGE difference having the plates able to rotate freely rather than have all that weight wanting to twist the bar in the palm of yr hand.
next time I do it I'll have look around for the best one.


I dont think its the bar kook. When one shoulder is injured you will have a tendency to compensate with the other. Watch that. Try uni-lateral movements see what happens.

Nice, did not even think about that, well I can feel myself compensating on some movements, but unilateral didn't cross my mind. thanks Polski.

[Horse95]

I just do them for my cardio right now, pretty much load the bar.


What do you mean when you say load the bar? You do 8 reps, take a breather, do it again. Go through you exercies and go through it a total of 4 times? How heavy on the weight are you going here? Thanks

[kook]

sorry, didn't explain it too well.

So YMMV, but right now i'm using 115lbs(35lbplates on the bar)
Ill do the first exercise 8 reps. take 30 seconds rest
2nd exercise, 30 seconds rest. and so on untill all the exercises are done.
Then take about 2 minutes break, and repeat until I've done this 4 times through.

I started last week with 6 reps. mon wed fri
Next week I'll bump it to 10.
I'll see from there but may bump the weight up the week after and go back to 6reps then 8 then 10.