Thread: Forearms hurt

is it at the wrist? or d just the whole forearm? :P

wuss

haha..

I'm not complaining about it I just want to know if this is beneficial pain or not..because I don't want to hurt myself over trying to isolate my biceps

and yes its the whole forearm

Don't curl your wrists at the top of the movement. Best to do the bicep curls with your wrists in a negative position (straight up) or try doing bicep curls with your wrists extended back rather than flexed. You'll likely have to drop the weight used but it does isolate the bi's as intended.

Originally Posted by Gordo

Don't curl your wrists at the top of the movement. Best to do the curl with your wrists in a negative position (staright up) or try doing bicep curls with your wrists extended back rather than flexed. You'll likely have to drop the weight used but it does isolate the bi's as intended.

thanks man i really appreciate the actual effort instead of just breaking my balls

lol

thanks again

suck it up bitch

kenwoord ur an obnoxious idiot...

Originally Posted by Andy_Massaro

After a set of barbell curls or preacher curls, or any type of curls for that matter I get an extreme pain throughout my forearm for about 10 seconds or so...is this burning sensation/pain just my forearm muscle being broken down or what?

It could be because of the weight being used because it usually only happens with heavy weight..

please help

thanks

-andy_massaro

Your stretching everything in your forearms when you lock them into a somewhat unnatural position and apply heavy resistance...I developed tendonitis in my forearms from straight bar and camber bar curls...my cure...stop using a bar....when I switched to dumbells because of the intense pain, I forgot I ever had tendonitis.

And you're probably doing way too many damned curls anyway. That was also my problem. Post your workout for that day.

i usually only do like 6 x 10 ( 3 sets of 2 exercises )

usually standing cheat curls and preacher curls

I think the way I was doing it i put too much strain on my forearms.. the other day I did them again and tried to focus on getting rid of the pain and I couldn't get rid of it during the standing curls, even when I was doing just the bar.. but I used the e-z curl bar on the preacher curls and eliminated most of the pain..

Originally Posted by pumpthatiron

kenwoord ur an obnoxious idiot...

yeah dude you seriously are

That's still 60 reps for a small muscle group. You could probably get away with something like 5x5 for one exercise and switch exercises each session or something like that. Compare how many reps you're doing for your biceps with the reps you're using for larger muscle groups. Most likely you're overtraining them anyways. I still think most people would be just fine if they simply did chin ups.

Originally Posted by Squaggleboggin

That's still 60 reps for a small muscle group. You could probably get away with something like 5x5 for one exercise and switch exercises each session or something like that. Compare how many reps you're doing for your biceps with the reps you're using for larger muscle groups. Most likely you're overtraining them anyways. I still think most people would be just fine if they simply did chin ups.

I would not do 5x5 for bicep curls. If lighter weights are bugging out his forearms, then heavier weights are just asking for trouble. Not to mention I don't really like heavy isolation stuff.

well the funny thing is my friends insist on doing like 5 exercises for biceps

if you think I'm overtraining then my friends are like shrinking themselves to death

I brought up the point of comparing the movements used to isolate the biceps and the movements used to work out the legs and how there should be a huge gap between how many exercises were done for each seeing how the biceps are the smallest muscle and the legs are the largest yet they still continue to overtrain.

I dunno.. I usually feel my biceps with all my compound workouts so I'm thinking about dropping down to just one isolation movement for the biceps, this way there is less strain on my forearms and I'm sure I won't be overtraining

I don't think 6 sets of 10 for your biceps is overtraining at all. That's pretty reasonable. Your friends probably aren't overtraining either, but merely wasting their time.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

I don't think 6 sets of 10 for your biceps is overtraining at all. That's pretty reasonable. Your friends probably aren't overtraining either, but merely wasting their time.

ok cool

by wasting your time do you mean that theyre doing the same amount of work for their biceps as I am ?

Originally Posted by Andy_Massaro

ok cool

by wasting your time do you mean that theyre doing the same amount of work for their biceps as I am ?

I just mean that I don't think doing all that extra bicep work is going to lead to a significant increase in their gains relative to what they would be gaining if they did less work.