A week ago I must have tweaked the muscles or ligaments around my elbow. When I do most pulling movements(row, pullups) I get pain in my forearm.
However I feel perhaps this might have been a result of some bad form on a heavy bench press day.
Anyway, my question is if an exercise doesnt hurt, would it be wise to still do it?
Right now it doesn’t hurt to bench or do deadlifts. Is it wise to keep lifting these heavy and maybe go light on things that hurt? Or just take time off the weights completely?
I’ve always followed and told the phrase “If you hurt one limb, you still have three other healthy limbs.”
If you are that concerned with the injury to the one arm, leave it be. It may mentally help with the healing process anyways. Without being able to see the injured site and examine it, nobody on the message board is going to be able to give you a 100% “Yes, go and do the lifts that don’t cause pain and you will be fine and not injure it more.”
Generally, if it doesn’t hurt, it shouldn’t do too much harm. BUT, there are cases where even if it doesn’t hurt, it may just be adding to the problem.
So, to sum it all up, do what you feel comfortable with (just let the injured arm rest and not lift it or only perform those exercises that don’t hurt), but just remember, you have THREE other uninjured healthy limbs to train full go.
-LH
It would probably be a good idea to do the lifts that don’t hurt. Getting blood flowing around the injured areas will do them good (and also keep you sane).
As far as the lifts that hurt your elbow, you might want to take a little time off from them, evaluate how they feel after said time (maybe 1-2 weeks), and then decide whether or not lighter lifting would be a hindrance to the healing process.
As a side note, try stretching your forearm flexors/extensors multiple times a day and foam roll your entire arm. I find that will help my elbow.
To clarify, it’s not really my eblow joint, just my forearm(Brachioradialis?) and the outer side of my bicep.
Anyway, yes, perhaps I’ll just stick with squats for a week.
Thanks!
Hm, a week later and the pain actually feels closer to the eblow than I thought. I have a feeling it’s just a sore ligament.
But the wierd thing is, it doesn’t hurt when I bench press(which probably puts most stress on the elbow joint), and it hurts when I do any pronated grip pulling(palms facing away). Slightly confused…
The pain has gone down pretty dramatically from last week, but I guess I’m just confused now as to what the hell agrivated it in the first place. Pulling or pressing.
I’m pretty sure this is the exact same pain I have. I posted a thread about this with little response: http://www.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_training_performance_bodybuilding/tricep_andor_elbow_pain
Anyways, after doing a bit of research on my own, I think its early forms of tendonitis. It’s what some people call ‘tennis elbow’. Heres the link to some more info: http://www.itendonitis.com/elbow-tendonitis.html
This may or may not be what you have, but your description seems similar to mine and this article appears to be it.
[quote]Kaizen08 wrote:
I’m pretty sure this is the exact same pain I have. I posted a thread about this with little response: http://www.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_training_performance_bodybuilding/tricep_andor_elbow_pain
Anyways, after doing a bit of research on my own, I think its early forms of tendonitis. It’s what some people call ‘tennis elbow’. Heres the link to some more info: http://www.itendonitis.com/elbow-tendonitis.html
This may or may not be what you have, but your description seems similar to mine and this article appears to be it.[/quote]
Naw, that’s not really what I have. The pain isn’t towards the back of the elbow towards where the tricep connects.
I don’t have any pain during bench…just on pulling movements. I think I just torqued my elbow with some bad form on bench or its always possible i strained it during a pulling movement. I’m gunna rest it until next week and see how it feels, probably just do some more legs tonight.
Pisses me off cuz I’m right in the middle of a fat burning phase…
Yea, I know how you feel. I’m gonna have to go off on my Starting Strength for a couple weeks, which is pretty bad. Since almost all the exercises in it are push/pull, the only one I can do without aggravating my elbow is the squat…and even that starts to hurt on my last set.
Wait, so your pain is now mainly in your forearm? There’s another guy that posted about forearm pain in this forum, you should check it out.
Yeah forearm…I think it’s getting better though. I haven’t been lifting arms for about 4 days now. Gunna wait until next monday.
Feels like a sore muscle. Only when i make a fist, palms down, and then flex my bicep, does it hurt(feels like the muscle is sore). I think what happened was I strained it a few weeks ago, benching, and kept lifting cuz the pain wasn’t bad then, and it just got worse.
Which part of your forearm is it that hurts? Please be specific. Location could change if its muscle or tendon