pain during barbell curls

[pk420]

When I am doing barbell bicep curls, about 3-4 inches down my outer forearm from my elbow gets sore. Its not the muscle that is hurting, but it feels like the bone is about to snap.

Am I using to much weight for my bones?? Because my biceps can handle the weight no problem?

Anyone else feel this pain before?

I am taking a fish oil supplement, and that is supposed to lube my joints? I don’t know what’s wrong???

[CJG560]

I experienced something similar to this for a time. It felt like my Ulna bone was being crushed. I traced it back to two reasons, overworking and bad form. I tried both the straight bar and the EZ bar and both led to pain.

I reduced the total sets I did for biceps and I really worked on strict form (reduced weights used to help this). For me the above helped, but you may be different. Just throwing it out there.

[stack_it]

I had to start using wrist wraps to get my pain to stop. It went away for a while but came back after a fight. Now I just deal with it. It hurts so bad sometimes it's hard to release my grip from the bar.

[pk420]

sorry, when I said barbell I meant ez bar. I keep my forearm straight, from the top of my knuckles to my elbow. I find it gives me a workout for my forearm, but when I start to feel the pain and begin the cheat by letting my wrist loosen, the pain is still there.

[Undercover]

don't just ignore the pain...fix it. stop doing bicep curls for a while. there are plenty of other exercises that can train your biceps just fine.

[Adreja]

Wrist wraps done tight so that the wrist doesnt bend down on the down movement helped me quite a bit. And also a 2 week break from bicep curls with any kind of bar, only dumb bell curls.

[Twist]

dumbell curls starting in hammer and ending in palms up, strict form and lighten the weight and rep slower. fixed the problem for me completely

[BBronco]

^^ good advice. I had the same problem and did the same thing and it solved it for me. now i only do biceps with DBs. I find the range of motion more natural and i can stack more weight without pain.

[t-gunz]

it hurt me to . i didn't do any curls for 2 weeks then started on EZ for 2 weeks and then went to straight bar and now i'm fine

[pk420]

right on, thanks guys

[shaunsta]

I went and bought rist guards and used them when i trained biceps. The pain is still there, but able to handle the pain.

[stevey_6t9]

its called harden up