Pain in left elbow

[DavidNguyen]

I felt this pain after last night training session... It was workout B (squat, OHP, deadlifts, pullups ) And my elbow started to feel a weird pain after deadlifting and more at pull up ( I can't do pull ups yet so I did negatives ) and now my elbow is hurting when I extend my arm... any idea guys?

[iCookie]

This happened to me too. The pain is on the left side of the left elbow-joint (or the inside if you like)

Ill follow this thread closely.

[coreJack]

1. Stretch your forearms, by pulling your palm toward the top of your forearm - this stretches the underside of your forearm.
2. Work your forearm extensor muscles. I leave some rubberbands on my desk and put them around my fingers and spread my fingers out against the resistance of the bands.

I do 1 and 2 whenever the elbow begins to bother me from lots of grip work - deadlifts and pull-ups. The idea is that you are only working one set of forearm muscles (the grip muscles), so they get tight and need stretching, and the extensor muscles need strengthening so that your forearm muscles are reasonably balanced. Kind of like how you wouldn't want your quads to become disproportionately strong relative to your hamstrings - muscle imbalances manifest themselves as joint issues.

Anyway, give that a shot, and post back here and let us know how it goes.

[Eivind]

Curls helped me when I had similar elbow pain. They actally made the pain go away after doing them only one time! Do them with a barbell though, I don't think dumbbells are any good for rehab exercises.

[seadog]

Pull ups are notorious for causing tendon pain until your mscles get strong enough. The stretching exercises can help but you really have to take care until you build sufficient strength to keep your tendons from doing more than their fair share of the effort. D/Ls contribute especially if you are bending your arms even a little when doing them.

[DavidNguyen]

Pull ups are notorious for causing tendon pain until your mscles get strong enough. The stretching exercises can help but you really have to take care until you build sufficient strength to keep your tendons from doing more than their fair share of the effort. D/Ls contribute especially if you are bending your arms even a little when doing them.

So what do you recommend I do to strengthen my elbows? My right elbow is fine just my left one is weak.

[wrenchhands]

Maybe it's from low bar grip. I have left elbow pain. It sucks.

[HumanRage]

I actually have a similar problem. I get horrible pain in my left elbow after doing hard sets of chin-ups. I don't get the pain from any other pull or lift though. I am assuming the tendon is just overworked and inflamed. I'm going to try to give it a rest on pull-ups/chin-ups for about a week or two, then start them again doing more sets of fewer reps.

For what it's worth, my elbow pain seems to completely go away after a good set of bench or overhead presses, and returns only after the next set of chin or pull-ups.

[kidsoftheblackhole]

Curls helped me when I had similar elbow pain. They actally made the pain go away after doing them only one time! Do them with a barbell though, I don't think dumbbells are any good for rehab exercises.

I had the left elbow pain too, and the exact same thing worked for me. Funny, I was reading the thread thinking how ridiculous a post saying 'did curls just once and it got better' would seem, and then I find out it has happened to someone else too.


The forearm stretches suggested also seem like good advice, I'll try no 1 next time I get even slight soreness.