Re: cbloom\'s log - Rippetoe & Frozen Shoulder
cbloom,
Thankfully when you start up on Rippetoe's regimen, you should start real low. He suggests pushing the big big lifts (squat, deadlift) by 10 lbs each week. The lifts that involve fewer, smaller muscle groups will progress much slower. He recommends 5 lbs. jumps for benching, and I think even smaller jumps (fractional weights like 1.25 lb.) for overhead pressing. Don't remember off the top of my head what he recommends for the other lifts.
It's rough but it's meant to get you up to speed as quick as possible by taking advantage of "beginner gains". Since you're dealing with the shoulder though, I would be super conservative since the likelihood of injury is higher, plus the fact that injuring that shoulder again would force you to shut down everything.
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