I did 2x20 CJs (clean-and-jerk) today and my shoulders felt fine. First time in a long time. I don't know exactly what did it, but two things are possible. One is that I've had to focus on the other lifts (deep squat, dead lift, bench press) instead of CJs because of the bum shoulders, so I figure that working out other muscles that weren't right in the wheel house of my shoulders, helped to train my shoulders indirectly without so much intensity on them, and two is that I added a second pillow for sleeping, which when I sleep on my side (my default position), reduces the stress on each shoulder, depending upon which side I'm sleeping on.
In the meantime I've really been swallowing my ego and doing way lower weight. The lifts feel different when I'm using such low weight, my musculature feels different doing it. On the deep squats, I can actually feel my glutes working, which is something I couldn't feel with more weight. Also, when benching, I can feel my arms/shoulders/chest working together as a unit in a way I have never felt before. I kind of squeeze a U-shape into position as I bench, where with heavier weight I think I use more of my other muscles to heave the bar up each rep.
Anyway, :idunno:.
