Elbow Strain?

[Ranpu]

Wow, it seem's like I'm always getting injured in someway and asking you guy's for advice lol, but who better to ask besides a doctor?

Anyway on Thursday 10-8-09 I was watching the Military channel "Navey Seals Training" and I had an idea just out of boredom, I have a 17 lbs dumbbell, so I though "Hey, why don't I lift this while I watch, then when i commercial comes on I take a break and when it comes back on switch arms." So I did, but it just so happens that there wasn't a commercial for the next 20 minutes, and I wanted to stick to my idea, so I kept going, and now I'm having arm pains if I try to straighten my arm and a little pain if I try ti flex I think I might have possibly damaged my tendons or something, I'v been easing my arm straight ievery once in a while just so I can have some motion it it.

after I sraighten it, I can partially straighten my arm normally without much pain, but after a while it gets tight again and I have to use my other arm to straighten it again.

So I'm again coming to you guys for advice, I know some of you always come to help.

[joesteph]

Ranpu, this is classic overtraining. I remember a friend who weight-trained on-and-off, doing an animal workout one day, then finding it impossible to work out again for a week.

I'm not sure of the position of the arm when you did the one-arm dumbbell curls, but you likely did them with your arm hanging straight down. As soon as you began the curl, the stress was in the insertion of the biceps into the elbow.

Seventeen minutes of nothing but repeated curls is not the way to exercise, unless I'm reading you wrong about what you did. Sets and reps are the way to go. Even if seventeen pounds doesn't sound like a lot, it's like a hundred pounds when you're doing curls for twenty minutes.

Yes, you can give yourself biceps tendinitis (usually misspelled "tendonitis") by inflaming the tendon and then resuming exercise before healing. I wouldn't doubt that your biceps feel so tight (because you were training them to constrict for so much time) that you're having a hard time straightening out you arms. That's not the tendon; that's the biceps itself.

Give them lots of rest and resist the impulse to keep "testing" them to see if they hurt. That's just undoing the rest. I've always found that warm water, such as in a warm shower cascading over the tightened muscle (or overtaxed joint) is a big help.

It happens to everybody. I did free-weights and cable-assisted weights for twenty years, and I learned by my mistakes.

After all, what's the point of making a mistake if you're not going to learn anything by it?

[Ranpu]

Thanks, I was actually thinking that if I did that non-stop for as long as I could, I would be able to use my arms more often and they wouldn't tire out as much because I used them like that, but I guess I'll stick to what I'v been doing. And as for how my arm is, it's not half as bad as yesterday, now it just feels like a regular sore arm, thanks again.

[bushido_man96]

Before diving into something like this, its a good idea to do some research on these kinds of workouts, so that you have some idea of how to proceed. It may sound like a good idea at first, but soon after, well, you can see what the results are. And if you've never done anything like this before, its a good idea to get your body into better shape, and then progress to tougher workouts.

[hx35543]

I did something similar to that in high school. i didn't play football but i trained with the players. I had been lifting for years in school and thought it a good idea to try the boxes one. This consisted of a series of eight 2' tall boxes to which you jump and off as high as you can from one to the other and back. There and back was one "rep" of ten. You do this two or three times to build explosive power off the line. The pump was incredible (as I was a muscle-head early on) and the result was I almost fell down the stairs at school because I could barely walk from the extreme soreness.

The point is, just because it's a good idea at the time, doesn't mean it's a bright one. Something like that you have to work into. Just because you can run a mile doesn't mean you can run the Boston Marathon.

Good luck with the healing. You'll be alright. Just think about it a little harder the next time and learn from your mistake.

[RichardZ]

Wow, it seem's like I'm always getting injured in someway and asking you guy's for advice lol, but who better to ask besides a doctor?

Anyway on Thursday 10-8-09 I was watching the Military channel "Navey Seals Training" and I had an idea just out of boredom, I have a 17 lbs dumbbell, so I though "Hey, why don't I lift this while I watch, then when i commercial comes on I take a break and when it comes back on switch arms." So I did, but it just so happens that there wasn't a commercial for the next 20 minutes, and I wanted to stick to my idea, so I kept going, and now I'm having arm pains if I try to straighten my arm and a little pain if I try ti flex I think I might have possibly damaged my tendons or something, I'v been easing my arm straight ievery once in a while just so I can have some motion it it.

after I sraighten it, I can partially straighten my arm normally without much pain, but after a while it gets tight again and I have to use my other arm to straighten it again.

So I'm again coming to you guys for advice, I know some of you always come to help.

You should have sought advice before doing such. IMHO

Time will heal it. Soak it alot.

Over the counter muscle rubs are good.

Hopefully, you did not tear tissue or put a strain on the joint.

Last- and most important, seek a doctor.