I was recently living in canada and whilst there was restricted to using only dumbbells. Well long story short, the only triceps exercises I was doing were basic dumbbell movements and dips + the lying 2 arm dumbbell parallel Extension (that's what I think its called anyway) like a skull crusher with dumbells with palms facing each other.
Now I did this exercise even though the angle seemed to put a lot of stress on the elbow joint. I was naive and kept on working through it even with a reasonable amount of pain that seemed to get easier to cope with the more I went though the sets. I must have done this exercise and worked through the initial pain about 7 or 8 different occasions over the period of about 2 months before I stopped doing them.
Now fast forward to present roughly 6months since doing that stupid exercise I go to do EZ bar skull crushers and the area around the elbow joint will not allow me to go to a heavy weight without doing at least 6 or so light sets and eventually I can lift (just) what I was when I had absolutely no pain there.
The feeling is also there when I do hammer curls, It just doesn't feel like I can work the S***T out of my forearms because I feel weak in the joint area. It also effects the control I have over my brachii, brachialis and brachioradialis so I cant work them as hard.
Sorry for the big write up but If anyone can tell me what I've done or possible rehab options that would be great. Much appreciated.
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