Thread: Pain in the neck, I mean, arm

I've got the same problem, it sucks, first with the right arm, it went away and hasn't come back but now its in the left.

It just seems to take some time to get rid of.
If anyone has a cure, I'd like to hear it as well.

I have that too!! Mine is on the inside of my left forearm at the elbow. It only hurts while curling. Pullups, lat pull-downs don't effect it.

Well, you'll love this; I went to my family doctor first about the pain, and she told me to take six weeks off, completely, then start back with 1 pound weights, then adding 1 pound each subsequent week...no kidding. That's when I asked for the referral to MSU.

i used to have the pain right where my bicep and lower arm meet, but it went away i never lifted lighter just worked through the pain

No kidding Vai Fan, thats exactly why I havent been to my family doctor and there's no one that specializes in my small town, gotta drive 5 hours to see a specialist.

Well, this can't be good then, can it? I find it hard to accept that we have to live with or work through the pain (although that's what we've all been doing).
I must confess, I did some heavy (for me) wide grip pulldowns today, which have hurt my arm in the past, and all is well. I think part of that may be in the form, too. I've been concentrating less on looking like I'm strong in the gym, and more on performing slow, proper repetitions. I think that I was using too much bicep on that exercise, not enough back.
5 hours, damn, that blows.

Small town Canada, middle of no where. hehehe
I agree, slower reps do work better, I've also found using the EZ bar for curls and curved bar for pulldown/pullups seems to help alot to.

Hey Scotty, thanks for the EZ bar tip, I'll give that a try. Middle of nowhere, eh?
This has probably been a posted thread or poll before, but do you workout at home, or at a gym?

LOL, my wife would like to answer this one for me, I've got all kinds of Good quality home equipment, benches, squat rack, lat pulldown and lots of iron plates and Dumbells for 5 to 70lb but I still enjoy working out at the gym. hehehehehe

I think its cause once I'm there, I might as well get a good workout done, at home I could just say fuck it if I'm feeling tired.

Don't get me discouraged, now. My family is moving pretty soon, and my intentions are to set up a decent home gym (3800 square foot house, shouldn't be a problem regarding space) and quitting the Powerhouse when my membership with them is up.

I'm thinking that I have enough motivation and dedication, since I've been lifting for a whopping 20 months now, that working out at home would be as productive as at the gym, if that makes sense. I mean, at first, I KNOW without a doubt that I'd have blown off most of my workouts if I didn't hit the gym.

Besides, we don't have any beautiful women at the gym that compare to our female board members! Just a bunch of stinky guys, well, besides me, of course.

I lift in the morning so there's almost no one in the gym, everyone that is there is there to lift not talk.
I'm sure i would lift at home if I had to deal with lines for the equipment or idots that are there to just take up space.

Yep, I'm with you on the morning thing. My venture into the world of being healthy begain about 2 years ago at a local YMCA, playing racquetball over my lunch period. Well, when I was trying to get into lifting, I went at that time also, but it didn't work out too well. Seems that if I go first thing in the morning, the rest of my day is less stressful (worrying about whether I'll see the gym) and there are very few people there. And those that are, are there for the same reason, to get down to business!

When I used to do a split routine with arms on one day, back on one day, and chest shoulders on another day, I got tendenitus in both arms.
Once I stopped that routine and included my arm work-outs with chest and back I never experienced tendenitus again.

I do get a full 48 hours of rest between workouts, so I don't think that's it, although I'm sure if I were doing the same thing you were, Prince, my elbow would fall to the ground in protest.

well to answer you question about the pain, I went through the same thing but I went to Physical Thyerpy Spec. and he told me to take my time during the work out because I was hyper-extending my elbow...he said focus on the movement and not on the weight..so I had about 30 sessions with him working on just that with every one of my workout and I have not had the pain since...it work for me...hopefully this works for you too....good luck