Originally Posted by
The Titan99
I and having some elbow/lower biceps pain the last week or so. I can also work through it but it really hurts when I turn my wrist to the inside (checking the time on my watch) or during the rotation on a Zottman curl-type movement. Through trial and error I've narrowed the aggravation of the injury down to hammer curls and possibly bent over over hand grip rows. I CAN NO LONGER DO HAMMER CURLS DUE TO THIS VERY THING. I WOULD USE CABLES "ONLY" FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS AT 12-15 REPS PER SET TO ALLOW THE TENDON TO HEAL. USE ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES LIKE ADVIL AS WELL. BACK TRAINING IS HARD ON THE BICEP TENDONS AND ELBOWS. DO LESS WEIGHT AND FOCUS ON THE SQUEEZE. I CAN NO LONGER USE LOW REPS WITH BACK TRAINING AS IT CAN REALLY FLARE UP MY ELBOWS/BICEP TENDONS. YOU MAY NEED TO STICK WITH ALL CABLE WORK FOR TRICEPS AS WELL UNTIL IT HEALS. I STEER CLEAR FROM SKULL CRUSHERS AND DIPS AT MY AGE. I'm one week into my deload and it seems to get better in the periods between these two exercises. Would you suggest cutting out hammers for a week? STOP THEM FOR A MONTH OR MORE. HAMMERS ARE MOSTLY A FOREARM EXERCISE ANYWAYS.For biceps I'm currently doing 4 sets of spider curls 3 sets of preacher curls and 3 sets of hammers (deloads I'm doing 2,2,2). Would you add a set to each of the others? I would do 3 sets of cable curls to really get the tensons warmed up then proceed to five sets of spiders curls during reloads. That's my current bicep workout! Thanks a lot in advance Ron.
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