I’ve been doing O-lifts for about 4 months under a coach and have had some knee pain and bicep tendonitis. The tendonitis totally de-railed me from training overhead or pulling for about a month and a half now and it’s about 90% back. As for the knee pain, when I was in full swing of the program, it was enough to constantly ache. Has anyone experienced similar issues when starting out?
No.
Was it hurting when you were not OLifting?
Do you have chronic masturbatory issues for the bicep tendonitis? You can cut the arm off or use your other arm or a vacuum cleaner dude. YOU NEED TO LIFT and there are easier ways to raise t levels!
joking aside, was it the OLifts that caused the issues or you had them pre exisiting?
Do you do any bicep work or chin ups or dips? Or any all around strength and conditioning work with your OLift stuff?
Don’t crash to the bottom in squats. Slow down, fast up, no bouncing. Your knees will take a battering from the OLifts anyway, no need to smash them in squats which is a strength builder. The squats will help to protect your legs.
Koing
My knees were constantly sore the first several months I started olympic lifting. It takes time for your body to get used to squatting deeper with heavier weights. I didn’t have pre-existing issues, so it was more a dull soreness than a debilitating pain. The tendonitis could be a result of improper technique (ie pulling with the arms or premature pressing on the jerk), but hopefully your coach will be able to identify any problems if they are indeed the source.
Work your grip [especially extensors] 3x/wk to get rid of the elbow tendinitis. As for the knee pain do as Koing said and go slow down and fast up. Get some knee sleeves to keep them warm. and just keep going. your body has to get used to squatting as frequently as you likely do.
-chris
[quote]Koing wrote:
No.
Was it hurting when you were not OLifting?
Do you have chronic masturbatory issues for the bicep tendonitis? You can cut the arm off or use your other arm or a vacuum cleaner dude. YOU NEED TO LIFT and there are easier ways to raise t levels!
joking aside, was it the OLifts that caused the issues or you had them pre exisiting?
Do you do any bicep work or chin ups or dips? Or any all around strength and conditioning work with your OLift stuff?
Don’t crash to the bottom in squats. Slow down, fast up, no bouncing. Your knees will take a battering from the OLifts anyway, no need to smash them in squats which is a strength builder. The squats will help to protect your legs.
Koing[/quote]
I had to switch to the drapes attachment on the vacuum cleaner to prevent excessive soreness.
Aside from that I noticed that if I did dips after any snatches that not immediately, but a day or two after, my shoulder would be singing to me. On any other day dips were fine. Chins no problem. My coach believed I may be also pulling with the arms a bit on the movements. It’s during the second pull that I have the most problems, especially with extending all the way.
I think you may be spot on with the bouncing. I give a slight bounce at the bottom of my squat but definately not as much as when I clean. How I can lessen the blow during those? Maybe wraps?
[quote]dfreezy wrote:
My knees were constantly sore the first several months I started olympic lifting. It takes time for your body to get used to squatting deeper with heavier weights. I didn’t have pre-existing issues, so it was more a dull soreness than a debilitating pain. The tendonitis could be a result of improper technique (ie pulling with the arms or premature pressing on the jerk), but hopefully your coach will be able to identify any problems if they are indeed the source.[/quote]
Yeah squatting ATG is fairly new to me. I always did a powerlifting type squat at parallel.
As for the shoulder, I think pulling with the arms could be the prime suspect. It’s when the elbow is at it’s furthest point back (like the bottom position of a dip or upright row) that I feel it.
[quote]Avocado wrote:
Work your grip [especially extensors] 3x/wk to get rid of the elbow tendinitis. As for the knee pain do as Koing said and go slow down and fast up. Get some knee sleeves to keep them warm. and just keep going. your body has to get used to squatting as frequently as you likely do.
-chris[/quote]
Thanks Chris, I might just get the sleeves. He has me squatting every workout so it’s probably worth it.
The pain is in front of the shoulder where the bicep tendon attaches. I added in 3-4 rehab exercises to strengthen around the entire shoulder just to be sure. No fun.
do you foam roll? - i know its turning into a stock answer around here but it really does help
[quote]Mr. P wrote:
[quote]Koing wrote:
No.
Was it hurting when you were not OLifting?
Do you have chronic masturbatory issues for the bicep tendonitis? You can cut the arm off or use your other arm or a vacuum cleaner dude. YOU NEED TO LIFT and there are easier ways to raise t levels!
joking aside, was it the OLifts that caused the issues or you had them pre exisiting?
Do you do any bicep work or chin ups or dips? Or any all around strength and conditioning work with your OLift stuff?
Don’t crash to the bottom in squats. Slow down, fast up, no bouncing. Your knees will take a battering from the OLifts anyway, no need to smash them in squats which is a strength builder. The squats will help to protect your legs.
Koing[/quote]
I had to switch to the drapes attachment on the vacuum cleaner to prevent excessive soreness.
Aside from that I noticed that if I did dips after any snatches that not immediately, but a day or two after, my shoulder would be singing to me. On any other day dips were fine. Chins no problem. My coach believed I may be also pulling with the arms a bit on the movements. It’s during the second pull that I have the most problems, especially with extending all the way.
I think you may be spot on with the bouncing. I give a slight bounce at the bottom of my squat but definately not as much as when I clean. How I can lessen the blow during those? Maybe wraps?
[/quote]
Focus on being strict. use a bit less weight and work on not bouncing at the bottom. Your relatively new to ATG squats so your tendons/ ligaments are NEW to this load at this range of movement. They are not use to it and will be sore. Just focus on squating properly and they’ll get use to it.
Wraps usually help most lifters but I avoid that. They say it helps keep their knees warm.
Koing