Hey folks, been trying to work in exercise into my day to destress, mostly with crunches and pushups.
While crunches relieve a lot of the tension I get in my chest, a few days into doing pushups I've been getting pain in my left forearm and elbow, which subsides into pain around the elbow joint. It doesn't feel like muscle aches.
I figure I pinched a nerve, but I literally can't do any pushups without this pain returning, and it takes over a week to subside. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I'm 23, on the lower end of average weight for my height and have never had trouble with pinched nerves or doing pushups in the past.
Got crushed at the gym tonight. 250lb squats on Wednesday weren't hard, but 255lbs tonight was more than I could handle. Completed one rep with horrible form in 3 sets and had to dump the others. Short 135lb Asian guy beside me did 275x3 like it was nothing though . I couldn't 5-5-5 100lb shoulder presses, and then I dropped a warm-up power clean at 135lbs (and proceeded to fail miserably at 145lbs). Worst workout ever for me.
@ShadownDrgn: Don't worry dude, it happens to the best of us, sometimes you just have a shitty workout. Use it as motivation for next time and smash it!
Wow... that's it. Gonna go out and get a haircut then heading straight to the gym to start doing some power cleans. Need to somehow burn the 3 ciders I just had first though.
Just before I walked out yesterday I went past the pullup bar, stopped looked at it.. "you're going down mofo" Grabbed a 15kg dumbbell stuck it between my legs, did a set of 20, dropped the weights and did 5 more.
Grabbed my stuff and starting walking like
Then I noticed there was some 16 year old kid watching me like
On February 26 2011 02:43 unknown.sam wrote: eshlow i'm having some recurring ac joint problems (right side)...it feels fine when i do pressing movements, but there's pain a few hours after when i mimic front raises and when i swing it to the left (from the front raise position).
any ideas as to what's causing the pain?
Under the AC joint or in/on the bone of the AC joint?
Under teh AC joint you got your supraspinatus which is aggravated ratehr easily with some movements
Like said above if its the AC joint itself usually you've had an impact injury in the past or present becaues it's held together by ligaments. So unless you've torn them you usually shouldn't have issues on the bone there.
hmmm...now that you mention it, it seems more like it's underneath the joint rather than the bone itself. and that seems perfectly logical because i never got hit in the area, but rather hurt it a few months back while on the negative portion of the bench press.
Terrible lifting day for me today. Failed squats @ 75kg x 5/5/5/4/0. Failed OHP @ 35kg x 5/3/2/2/2. Failed DL @ 100kg x 3. I ate really shittily yesterday and today and I went out late and drank heaps last night so I suppose I can blame it on that...
On February 26 2011 09:12 Sard Caid wrote: Hey folks, been trying to work in exercise into my day to destress, mostly with crunches and pushups.
While crunches relieve a lot of the tension I get in my chest, a few days into doing pushups I've been getting pain in my left forearm and elbow, which subsides into pain around the elbow joint. It doesn't feel like muscle aches.
I figure I pinched a nerve, but I literally can't do any pushups without this pain returning, and it takes over a week to subside. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I'm 23, on the lower end of average weight for my height and have never had trouble with pinched nerves or doing pushups in the past.
Google "nerve glides" first link.... I suspect possibly some radial nerve impingement somewhere.
Foam roll/massage your triceps, lie face down on a basketball and roll your pecs, and get a tennis ball/lacrosse and roll all the muscles on your back (infraspinatus, teres minor, teres major, rhomboids, etc.)
On February 26 2011 02:43 unknown.sam wrote: eshlow i'm having some recurring ac joint problems (right side)...it feels fine when i do pressing movements, but there's pain a few hours after when i mimic front raises and when i swing it to the left (from the front raise position).
any ideas as to what's causing the pain?
Under the AC joint or in/on the bone of the AC joint?
Under teh AC joint you got your supraspinatus which is aggravated ratehr easily with some movements
Like said above if its the AC joint itself usually you've had an impact injury in the past or present becaues it's held together by ligaments. So unless you've torn them you usually shouldn't have issues on the bone there.
hmmm...now that you mention it, it seems more like it's underneath the joint rather than the bone itself. and that seems perfectly logical because i never got hit in the area, but rather hurt it a few months back while on the negative portion of the bench press.
on supraspinatus strengthening. there are obviously a lot more vids but this is the first one i had a look at.
lemme know what you think.
I wouldn't necessarioly go straight supraspinatus exercises. Avoid those for a bit and strengthen your teres minor and infraspinatus with some external rotation first.
If supra is being overuse then you don't want to be working it much at all... if the ER muscles get weak it can start recruiting supra more which is what we are going to try to see if that's the case.
If strict ER and some face pulls/horizontal pulling don't fix it up (avoid anything that hurts for now) then start to add in some supraspinatus exercises next week or so.
Also, I would suggest soft tissue work to those areas. Right posterior to the AC joint you can dig into the trap and underneath it is the supraspinatus. If you lie down on the ground and abduct your arm to about 90 degrees you can dig in and get some good loosening on supraspinatus. Do some soft tissue work for your pecs and back muscles too (see the answer to the quote above yours for how to)
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