Resumed training after 5 weeks off - still have elbow pain.

Hi All,

During the last 2 weeks I have resumed light training. The pain in the
biceps, brachialis and supinator regions has gone and there is no pain
during or after training so far. Doing reps in the 10-15 range, cutting out
hammer curls and leaving out supination during DB curls seems to be doing
the trick.

Unfortunately, I am still getting quite a bit of pain on the outside of my
elbows. It doesn't hurt during training but definitely hurts after training.
Even a shoulder workout seems to flair it up. I haven't re-introduced dips
or pull-ups yet and most of my training has been much lighter with reduced
sets (2 instead of 3). So I'm thinking there's something else going on?
Could this be related to the muscles used for gripping? Any thoughts?

It seems I have lost alot of strength in the biceps (~30%), but not that
much in chest, triceps and shoulders. In fact after 2 shoulder workouts, I
am doing the same weight in DB press as I was 8 weeks ago and with more reps
(15x18kg, 12x22kg, 10x28kg, 8x32kg). Today I did flat bench for the first
time in 2 months and managed to go very well I thought. I got a 4th set of
110kgx4 after 15x60kg, 10x80kg, 6x100kg. I didn't think I was going to get
100kg off the rack by the way my biceps had been effected. Does this sound
like I was possibly over-training the biceps?

Steph.




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