Yeah, that is always in the back of my mind when I post. I know that you just get used to this kind of thing and you get into a habit of working around it. And working around things can be a good thing but you are never going to reach you goals or potentials by constanstly taking time off from a bum shoulder even if it doesn't get worse.

Look at it this way. Just from what you brought up about doing more pressing at one time because it results in the same amount of soreness. Well one pressing session whether it's a lot or a little pressing doesn't amount to a hill of beans longterm. Anything that prevents you from progressing in a slow and steady rate long term CONSISTENTLY is never as good.

What I'm thinking of is not now, but 5 years from now, where not wanting to "take time off" turns into "not lifting" potentially.

The other misconception is that "taking time off" means no training and no training effect. This does NOT have to be the case. You can fix problems in a way that also results in not only a training effect but coming out the other end with a potential for more strength than would have ever been possible with you current way of dealing with things.

The other thing that people aren't aware of is how your body protects you from further injury. And how much you can compensate up to a point where a couple of things can happen. Either you just hit a "wall" and you can never get past it, which you can basically look at as a sort of range where your body just pulls in the reigns and says "this is the limit". Or, the compensating muscles take over for long periods of time getting more and more overworked, etc while the underactive, weak muscles get weaker and weaker. Then you have the potential for a sudden catastrophic injury that you never necessarily had some feeback about, in terms of being more sore. Especially given that is is SO easy to adapt to more and more chronic discomfort and rationalize while it staedily impacts your function more and more.

I know you KNOW all this but I don't think you BELIEVE it.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.