Today I was doing curls, and I got a freaky sharp pain on the outside lower part of my right forearm, kinda towards the middle. It only occurs doing curls, not during any of my tricep work, and I have never had this happen before.
[quote]Carbon-12 wrote:
Today I was doing curls, and I got a freaky sharp pain on the outside lower part of my right forearm, kinda towards the middle. It only occurs doing curls, not during any of my tricep work, and I have never had this happen before.
Does anyone know what this could be?[/quote]
According to Prof X that could mean that your bones bend a little bit.
If it is that feeling, it happens to me too when I do Hammer curls.
He said the feeling would go away when you are all diesel and stuff na dhave bones like a T-rex but apparently I?m not quite there yet…
I had a forearm pain whenever I try and grip something and then lift it. It ended up being a torn tendon in my elbow (sort of like tennis elbow, but worse). Lucky for me my last session of therapy is next week and I can go back to the gym.
I’ve experience that too man. It is like in the middle of your forearms right on the right side(if you let your arms hang naturally)right? My guess is that the strength in our upper arms outran the strength of our forearms to hold that weight. as a result im trying to do more forearm work cuz i never included forearm work before.Thats just my guess though
[quote]Carbon-12 wrote:
Was the pain actually at the elbow? Mine is in the middle of my forearm closer to my wrist.[/quote]
Sounds just like when my tendonistis begins to flare again If I do direct arm work cant do it more than 1 w/o or im toast. Are you doing a lot of Hammer curls?? this can start it it seems
anyway get a rubber band and start working your fingers OUT pressing against the band and take you Flameout. This should help.
It could also be like the above said the bone bending, completely natural and it will force your body to adapt much like muscle being built the body will store more calcium etc in the bone to handle the stresses you place it under.
I’m doing CT’s OVT training and I’m on the second 4 week block, so it’s Barbell Curls, Zottman Curls, and preacher curls. I wasn’t able to finish my preacher curls just out of fear of injury. Strange part is that it’s only in my right arm, nothing unusual on the left.
I don’t think it’s the bone bending, as even now I can press the spot where it was and feel some pain, but nothing is visible on the skin. I read up on tendonitis and a micro tear in the tendon would make sense, good thing I have a week off training next week, maybe it’ll sort itself out.
I kept getting the exact same thing when I would do heavy EZ bar curls. Right in the middle on the outside. I stopped doing them just because I felt like I was really going to hurt something. The pain always went away but I didn’t like the feeling. I never found out the cause of that pain.
[quote]Carbon-12 wrote:
I’m doing CT’s OVT training and I’m on the second 4 week block, so it’s Barbell Curls, Zottman Curls, and preacher curls. I wasn’t able to finish my preacher curls just out of fear of injury. Strange part is that it’s only in my right arm, nothing unusual on the left.
I don’t think it’s the bone bending, as even now I can press the spot where it was and feel some pain, but nothing is visible on the skin. I read up on tendonitis and a micro tear in the tendon would make sense, good thing I have a week off training next week, maybe it’ll sort itself out.[/quote]
Maybe its not the bone bending because i think im just having the bone bend because afterwards it does not hurt. If yours does well then maybe you should get it checked…
[quote]vbm537 wrote:
I kept getting the exact same thing when I would do heavy EZ bar curls. Right in the middle on the outside. I stopped doing them just because I felt like I was really going to hurt something. The pain always went away but I didn’t like the feeling. I never found out the cause of that pain.[/quote]
Not sure if this is the same pain?
My pain is in the region of Flexor Carpi Ulnaris muscle (according to my anatomy chart), on left hand with palm up, 3 to 4 inches down from elbow on pinky finger side. The only move that causes pain here is the bicep curls movement. Very painful and stops me from performing that move. I’m recovering from some minor surgery at the moment so it’s getting a rest but I can still feel the pain sometimes.
It’s the sort of thing that’s too pissy to see a doc about, but annoying enough to be troublesome.
Any thoughts from the many who are smarter than me are appreciated.
[quote]duke wrote:
vbm537 wrote:
I kept getting the exact same thing when I would do heavy EZ bar curls. Right in the middle on the outside. I stopped doing them just because I felt like I was really going to hurt something. The pain always went away but I didn’t like the feeling. I never found out the cause of that pain.
Not sure if this is the same pain?
My pain is in the region of Flexor Carpi Ulnaris muscle (according to my anatomy chart), on left hand with palm up, 3 to 4 inches down from elbow on pinky finger side. The only move that causes pain here is the bicep curls movement. Very painful and stops me from performing that move. I’m recovering from some minor surgery at the moment so it’s getting a rest but I can still feel the pain sometimes.
It’s the sort of thing that’s too pissy to see a doc about, but annoying enough to be troublesome.
Any thoughts from the many who are smarter than me are appreciated.
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That’s exactly what this is. Any idea what causes this or how to prevent it?
Would any of the veteran lifters here have any input?
It’s tendonitis. I had the same pain from doing an assload of strait bar wide grip barbell curls. I ended up getting a cortisone shot into the tendon and stayed away from the strait bar for years and it never came back. Where in GA are you. I am in gwinnett, the english speaking part of it.
That’s exactly what this is. Any idea what causes this or how to prevent it?
Would any of the veteran lifters here have any input?[/quote]
No idea, but I hurt it again yesterday lifting my daughter up.
Bugger it!, I have to see the doc again anyway to have stitches removed next week, so I’ll ask his opinion and let you know what he says, if you have the same injury, it may be of benefit to you.
I used to have the same thing when I lifted. I switched to doing wide-grip and narrow-grip curls, cleared it right up. The hand placement on an EZ-curl bar just fucks with your forearm. Besides, who named the bar “Easy?” That should have been a turn off right there.
[quote]Brant_Drake wrote:
I used to have the same thing when I lifted. I switched to doing wide-grip and narrow-grip curls, cleared it right up. The hand placement on an EZ-curl bar just fucks with your forearm. Besides, who named the bar “Easy?” That should have been a turn off right there.[/quote]
I must admit Brant that using a different, narrow, grip in preacher curls tends alleviate the problem a little but not entirely. I do use an ‘ezy’ bar though. I’ll take your advice and try a straight bar with wider & narrower grip in the next session.
Thanks.