Everytime I pull heavy my left bicep gets tweaked. Its the upper, inner part of my bicep, almost at my armpit.
Its just a sharp pain that feels like a way too deep stretch.
Its making it hard for me to pull my shoulders back at lockout as that is where it hurts the most.
What really confuses me is that I heard that those who pull overhand never get bicep tears(which is what I’m afraid is gonna happen). Well I use an alternate grip, but the arm giving me trouble is the overhand one.
I’m also not flexing my bicep while I pull, the arm is totally straight.
I plan on foam rolling it or using a tennis ball to loosen it up.
I haven’t done a direct bicep exercise in at least 6 months. I’m not sure if that would help or make it worse.
I started getting biceps pain from weighted pull-ups, and it started hurting when I did deadlifts. Foam rolling fixed it in a week, so it’s worth a shot.
Get your self some lifting straps and pull overhand, try 3-4x20 light dumbbell curls on a preacher bench, they would probably be the best bicep prehab exercise
Make sure you keep your arms loose when you deadlift, dont want to tense up your arms and pull/tear a bicep or anything like that.
If your gonna be doing a meet I say switch arms, the bicep pain hand should be faceing you etc.
That should help.
EDIT: oh, didnt read everything you wrote. Maybe just a over use issue, you do alot of lat work? Tons of bicep work will over use it especialy if you have been getting alot stronger on chinups rows etc.
If yout takeing steroids your tendons could be getting weaker and such things, if your realy scared about this stick to squatinq, goodmornings ect. Basicaly just Stuff that will hit your deadlift without much bicep stress.
Or pick a deadlift variation that you cant use much weight on, snatch grip deadlifts off a platform for instance.
[quote]Uber N3wb wrote:
If your gonna be doing a meet I say switch arms, the bicep pain hand should be faceing you etc.
That should help.
EDIT: oh, didnt read everything you wrote. Maybe just a over use issue, you do alot of lat work? Tons of bicep work will over use it especialy if you have been getting alot stronger on chinups rows etc.
If yout takeing steroids your tendons could be getting weaker and such things, if your realy scared about this stick to squatinq, goodmornings ect. Basicaly just Stuff that will hit your deadlift without much bicep stress.
Or pick a deadlift variation that you cant use much weight on, snatch grip deadlifts off a platform for instance.[/quote]
No steroids, and I actually haven’t done chins in quite a while, I’ve been doing a lot of heavy dumbbell rows, could that be causing over use? Do you still recommend some high rep bicep work?
I’m guessing you could be muscling the DB rows up a lot with your arms and that could be prompting the tweak to your biceps when you pull. Ub3r’s idea about straps (even on rowing exercises - just enough to lighten load borne by the forearms and bis) and some light high-rep dumbbell work, i.e. hammer curls, is good.
[quote]evansmi wrote:
Uber N3wb wrote:
If your gonna be doing a meet I say switch arms, the bicep pain hand should be faceing you etc.
That should help.
EDIT: oh, didnt read everything you wrote. Maybe just a over use issue, you do alot of lat work? Tons of bicep work will over use it especialy if you have been getting alot stronger on chinups rows etc.
If yout takeing steroids your tendons could be getting weaker and such things, if your realy scared about this stick to squatinq, goodmornings ect. Basicaly just Stuff that will hit your deadlift without much bicep stress.
Or pick a deadlift variation that you cant use much weight on, snatch grip deadlifts off a platform for instance.
No steroids, and I actually haven’t done chins in quite a while, I’ve been doing a lot of heavy dumbbell rows, could that be causing over use? Do you still recommend some high rep bicep work?[/quote]
I have seen that Krock guy do dumbell rows with 275x20, I also seen him curl 225x16 so Im going to assume that works your biceps pretty good.
I dont know if I would recommend high rep bicep work, I think it could be therapeutic and if your worried about a tear you would definatley want to keep the reps high.
I would use it more as active recovery to get some blood in there and help speed up recovery in the muscle. But then again you might be better off just droping all pulling work