I’m starting to get tendonitis from pjr pullovers with an ez curl bar. I was wondering if anyone had some exercise substitutes that don’t seem to cause tendonitis and target the long head of the triceps.
It would be best to experiment with certain exercises to find out which ones don’t hurt. When your arms are elevated it stretches the long head, try seated or standing over head triceps extensions with a rope attachment or bar attachment you find comfortable, if it still hurts try 1 arm at a time with a rope attachment extending to the side instead of forward.
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I’m starting to get tendonitis from pjr pullovers with an ez curl bar. I was wondering if anyone had some exercise substitutes that don’t seem to cause tendonitis and target the long head of the triceps.
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thats weird. i find them so easy on the elbows, way better than skullcrushers. make sure you dont lock out at the top and dont bring the bar over your face, keep it behind your head a bit even in the top position.
Some love neoprene sleeves. Warm joints can help a lot.
Some love fish oil.
Avoiding exercises that hurt can work.
I think it was sam_sneed who got good results by doing an exercise that would normally hurt, but with so little weight for so high reps that the elbows were fine. Then he (or someone else) increased the weights from there. The logic being that maybe it hurts because you’re weak at this, and fixing that exact problem without exacerbating it is a good strategy.
But as always on this site: Find what works for you.