After years of participating in various sports I have
overused/damaged shoulders and elbows. Pushing exercises, overhead
pressing and similar actions aggravate these long-term injuries. I
have carefully experimented with these types of exercises for the
last couple of years using excellent form etc but regrettably have
come to the conclusion that it is unwise for me to include them in my
workouts.

My experiments have shown that I should definitely not undertake
bench presses, full ROM flyes, dips, chins, overhead presses and
barbell squats.

Exercises that definitely don't cause me joint problems are trapbar
squats, lat pulldowns, seated cable rows, lateral raises and front
raises. I know that this is probably not ideal for an upper body
workout, particularly as it includes isolation exercises, but it is
the best that I have managed to find so far.

Although I am not very ambitious in my strength training goals, I
would like to improve my workouts if possible. Does anyone have any
suggestions on additional exercises that I could try in order to give
me a better all-round upper body workout?

Ken M.