posted Fri, 04/03/2015 - 16:59
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bicep pain
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When doing curls, regardless of type, I get a pain at the base of my right bicep only. It goes away after about a day but it does at times hinder my workout. Any idea what may be causing this? Bad form? Too much weight?
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So how is the bicep? It's been a few weeks, just thought I would check up on ya.
Better I take an extra day off between bicep work when I start to notice that sting coming back. I might go to the doc when I get back from my vacation. I'm hoping the extra rest will help.
After cold therapy to get down any internal inflammation, you want to increase the blood flow to the area. This is supposed to be a great treatment...and good for injury prevention. http://www.kingbrand.com/Bicep-Tendonitis.php?REF=46PV142.211
Whatever you do, do not try to work through it. I made this mistake with tennis elbow (has nothing to do with tennis) a couple years ago. I ended up having to take a month off to let it heal. Go see a doctor for it.
Also pay attention to how hard you grip the bar/ dumbell. If you're grip is really tight, it will aggravate these types of injuries.
Best of luck to ya
Excellent point on the grip of the bar. I noticed that myself and eased up on it and it has helped some.
It could be bicep tendonitis or maybe even tennis/golfters elbow (depending on which side). For either, the best thing to be doing is cold therapy after any workout. If it is tendonitis, then you tendon(s) are inflamed. If the inflammation is always present, it forms a barrier and blocks the bodies natural ability to bring blood flow to the area (to heal). The cold will help with the pain as well.
could be a pinched nerve in the c4 and c5 vertebre but most likely its a partal tendon tear.go see a doc.
Could be tendinitis as well. I had something similar on my left bicep and my doctor said it was tendinitis. I switched from straight bar and easy curl bars to a cable curl for a month and that seemed to help.
Helped a lot making the switch, thanks for the tip.
Glad to hear it. It really helped me.
Will try that Monday and see how it goes. Thanks for the reply bro.
I'm just warning you. My chest did this for three years before the tendon tore right off the bone. Tendon tears are different they don't bruise like muscle tears. I had severe nerve damage from this that lasted almost a year before it totally went away. I wouldn't take this lightly so if you have insurance go see a doctor and don't lift heavy with any pull type of exercise until you see one.... especially deadlifts.
What's funny is every chest day for about a year before I tore it I'd joke with my work out partner that this was the day I finally tear a pec..... until I really did. Good times
Sounds like micro tears of the bicep tendon. do you get pain with really light weight?
not at first, the more I work it, it becomes more noticeable. Did biceps Monday and it didn't bother me till I did hammers. I bought an elbow brace at the recommendation of a friend.
I had similar problems, IE: Tennis elbow. But it was from lifting, I don't play tennis. It go so bad that 15lb curls hurt. I had to stop curls for 2 weeks, then start really light, and stopped when I hit pain.
For example, I was doing 20lb curls and felt good. Then I tried 25 and I immediately felt pain again. Stopped and backed down to 20lbs again. The next week I tried 25lbs and it didn't hurt, but 30lbs did. Just stay below your pain trigger weight until you slowly get back to where you were. it took a couple months before I was able to really move weight, and even then I was very cautious. I also wore an elbow sleeve.
Exactly what I'm going through. Do hammers with 20s and little to no pain jump to 25s and it starts. thanks brother I thought it was in my head.
Good luck bro. I was doing hammers with 60's, then found myself using 20's because of pain. The good news is, it did heal.
Damn 60s is a lot of weight. I don't go that heavy, 25 to 30 is the highest for me. Thanks for the response brother will update next arm day.
Good luck, post back after working arms.
PS. I warm up with 30's on hammers, but I have been doing hammers for a very long time.
So far so good, had some minor discomfort but dropped weight, focused more on form and squeeze at the top with no issues. I'm hesitant to bump up the weight past 25 though.