started having pain in left elbow when doing triceps
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Roush
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My guess is your training to heavy and moving the weight around.. Been there done that and couldn't bench press or work triceps out for a couple weeks.
Now I primarily train for sarcoplasmic hypertrophy .. My elbows and joints feel great .. Sure I'm not tricep pressing 225 anymore , but who cares..
Here's what I've been doing -- instead of doing rope pull downs with 170 pounds, I drop the weight all the way down to 70 pounds. . Before I begin the movement I flex the tricep muscle hard, I then keep the tricep flexed hard the whole movement,, take 2 seconds to push down, hold it flexing hard at the bottom, and keep flexing and go slow on the negative (like 5 seconds)..
Don't just move the weight from point A to point B-- Flex and work the muscle slowly during the whole movement.
You'll get way more time under tension, a better workout, and NO joint pain
Now I primarily train for sarcoplasmic hypertrophy .. My elbows and joints feel great .. Sure I'm not tricep pressing 225 anymore , but who cares..
Here's what I've been doing -- instead of doing rope pull downs with 170 pounds, I drop the weight all the way down to 70 pounds. . Before I begin the movement I flex the tricep muscle hard, I then keep the tricep flexed hard the whole movement,, take 2 seconds to push down, hold it flexing hard at the bottom, and keep flexing and go slow on the negative (like 5 seconds)..
Don't just move the weight from point A to point B-- Flex and work the muscle slowly during the whole movement.
You'll get way more time under tension, a better workout, and NO joint pain
Megatron28
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Are you on cycle? My elbow always starts hurting when I am using too much AI.
Not on cycle. Then pain is bad on heavy one arm dumbbell extensions (60) and one arm reverse cable heavy. It was fine b4 idk why it happend now
China_Wall
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it happens to all of us that have been in this game long enough... sounds like the early signs of tendonitis. If you're wise you'll listen the info Roush gave above.
it will most likely be with you forever now so starting training smarter, not harder and you'll be fine
just wait til you start getting it in you knees and elbows... that's when the real party begins
Uso
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OP look up John Meadows or mountaindog1 on youtube.
Charles Bronson
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i had tendonitis in through my elbow down into my forearm..
6 months of resting it and trying to work around it, and the first time id hit something hard where i had to activate my grip forearm flexors/extensors - immediately back to square one. landing hard left hooks on pads , or heavy bag work - it would flare back up to its worst. fucking misery dipped in shit
i went to see an acupuncturist,
literally 3 visit in two weeks and on a scale of 1-10 for pain - it was reduced from a 8 or 9 all the way down to a 2 or 3.
after the fourth visit, the pain was completely gone. now i warm up my forearms and wrist, just get blood moving
strangely enough, all the time id put into icing and rubbing down my forearm and elbow joint - the good doctor literally worked almost exclusively on my triceps explained that i had a lot of muscular tension that was causing chronic inflammation - leading to the discomfort and pain.
do your own research, but he knocked it out completely with four visits
6 months of resting it and trying to work around it, and the first time id hit something hard where i had to activate my grip forearm flexors/extensors - immediately back to square one. landing hard left hooks on pads , or heavy bag work - it would flare back up to its worst. fucking misery dipped in shit
i went to see an acupuncturist,
literally 3 visit in two weeks and on a scale of 1-10 for pain - it was reduced from a 8 or 9 all the way down to a 2 or 3.
after the fourth visit, the pain was completely gone. now i warm up my forearms and wrist, just get blood moving
strangely enough, all the time id put into icing and rubbing down my forearm and elbow joint - the good doctor literally worked almost exclusively on my triceps explained that i had a lot of muscular tension that was causing chronic inflammation - leading to the discomfort and pain.
do your own research, but he knocked it out completely with four visits
getfitgabe
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Sounds like tennis elbow, I had the same problem, rest, ice, and stretch
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