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| Posted by: J.R.85 May 6 2007, 11:22 AM |
| recently my bones in my forearms have started to really hurt every time i try to work out my bi's, its really annoying because im stuck for most exercises for them, ez bar curls hammer curls ect ect, and can not increase the weight. my muscles seem to be able to handle it, but my bones in my forearms kill. is there anything i can do to help my situation? or even better prevent it completly? are there any sort of supplements out there that could help me out? or am i fucked??? any help will be greatly appreciated as this is really getting to me because i feel like i can't progress.......  |
| Posted by: Singa May 6 2007, 12:16 PM |
| if its the actual bone and not the muscle then i woudl talk to a doctor about it cuz theres probably not anything we can say to help...maybe just take a few days off or w.e and see if its still like that...do u think u have a bruised forearm bone or something? |
| Posted by: typeRob May 6 2007, 12:55 PM |
| i had the same problem a little while back when doing ez preacher curls. i cut them out of my routine and stuck to db curls, machine curls, bb curls and havent had a problem since. ive heard other people complain of the same problem when doing ez bar curls. so my suggestion is to take some time off from training your bi's. the pain will eventually go away. then limit your exercises to whatever doesnt hurt it. it most likely will be the ez bar curls. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 May 6 2007, 12:58 PM |
| Eventually the pain will go away as you get stronger. |
| Posted by: J.R.85 May 6 2007, 02:13 PM | ||
i dont think i need to take any time off from lifiting because they only hurt when im actually working out, when i've finished they feel the same as always.... i think that my muscles have actually become stronger than my bones (in my arms only) |
| Posted by: J.R.85 May 6 2007, 02:19 PM | ||
hey bro thanks for the reply, you are right they do hurt when im doing ez bar curls aswell. but then they hurt with every curling motion i make, no matter what the exercise..... |
| Posted by: J.R.85 May 6 2007, 02:22 PM | ||
hey bro, have you had any personal experience with the same problem in the past?? if so did you just work trough it? and did the pain eventually subside? |
| Posted by: typeRob May 6 2007, 05:14 PM | ||||
yeah man when i was doin the ez bar curls every other exercise hurt as well but i pinpointed the problem down to the ez curls. i dont know what it is but it might have somethin to do with the angle your forearms are at when ez curling. like i said i just stopped trainin bis until the pain went away which was like less than a week i think. then did everything but the ez curl bullshit and havent had a problem since. then recently, about a week ago i though id give the ez's another chance and as soon as i did them the pain came back and i said fuck this and stopped after the first set. so cut them out and let me know how your forearms are feelin in a week  |
| Posted by: opfor101 May 6 2007, 05:41 PM |
| yeah i got the same problem too. i still do the ez curls even tho they hurt. |
| Posted by: SFW_SFW May 7 2007, 12:56 AM | ||||
i have...mine are fine now though. take glucosamine. fuck ez bar curls. theyre not that great anyway. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 May 7 2007, 12:58 AM | ||||
Yes I did when I first started lifting. Eventually it went away as I got stronger. |
| Posted by: Vaporize May 7 2007, 01:01 AM | ||||||
Bump Will |
| Posted by: ew123397 May 8 2007, 08:30 PM |
| The same thing is happening to me, as I type now i feel my bones in my forearm sort of hurting. Only when I do curls with the ez-bar and tricep extensions. Same thing with my friend but theres went away and I hope mine will to. |
| Posted by: Light Weight Baby May 8 2007, 08:40 PM |
I had more problems with barbell curls than ez curls... ez curls took away any wrist strain for me.  |
| Posted by: ftank May 9 2007, 09:24 AM |
| I also suffer wrist pains. Its called carpal tunnel. It hurts like a bitch when you're lifting something and your wrist has pressure applied to it (ie. reverse curls, vertical rows, straight BB curls). For the most part I just deal with the pain until I just can't hold on to the bar any more. Fortunately this doesn't affect any lifts where I might drop heavy ass weight on me. |
| Posted by: Roids May 9 2007, 09:40 AM |
| Change hands when you JO! |
| Posted by: markvdb8 May 18 2007, 04:47 PM |
| Does it feel like shin splints in your forearms? I had those for a while. I don't think the bones hurt, I believe it is the muscles and connective tissues, being pulled away from the bones. I used to get them horrible when I did preacher curls or the ez-bar curls. I know hold the ez-bar in a different location and I use standing dumbells and they seem to have cleared up. Basically you don't want to let your hands/wrists end up in an unnaturual position at any time during the lift. Don't curl your wrists up so tight and don't let them hand so loose either......hope that makes sense. |
| Posted by: altec32 May 18 2007, 08:25 PM |
| A lot of people can relate to this problem. I myself have had it aswell. For me it is mostly from EZ like every says, cause the curving of the wrists puts strain on your forearm muscle. But I took a week off, the pain didnt totally go away but now its tolerable. Cause before it kept me from finishing. Try to take some time off of EZ or stay away from them, amd maybe take an ibeprophen/aspirin before your workout, that helped also. |
| Posted by: Roids May 18 2007, 08:53 PM | ||
Who the shit are you to come in here out of the friggin blue and start giving out advice to members of this forum?? Do you even have any god damned credentials? How do we know? You could be some str8 fucktard with know expertise whatsoever for all anyone knows, and I suspect that's probably the case. So, do yourself and us all a big fuckin favor and read, research, familiarize yourself with the board and its members before coming in here out of fucking nowhere and throwing around useless dumbfuck advice. Got it?? Thanks in advance cocklick! |
| Posted by: altec32 May 18 2007, 10:43 PM |
| I dont feel like arguing cause I can see you think Im some "fucktard" I believe it was. And you probably think that because of the 1 post and the date. Im not gonna say Im an expert of any kind, but I am quite familiar with the board. I made this account due to I forgot my other password/email. But I check the forums daily and read just about every new thread. It's not like I dont know anything at all. I was just relaying information I recieved for the same problem from these exact forums. I made a post a while back asking what to do,and thats what people with "credentials" said to me. And it helped so I just thought it might help him also. Im not trying to anger anyone, but I felt like maybe I could lend some advice that helped me out in the same situation. But sorry if what what helped me out isnt good enough for other people with a similar problem. |
| Posted by: Thomas130483 May 18 2007, 10:57 PM |
| Haha dont say your sorry. Roids has at least a quarter of his posts ripping on people. The same thing with the ez curls happened to me. Using any solid bar right down the bone in my forearm. I took those out of my routine for a while and its totally fine now as far as i can tell. |
| Posted by: TAC May 19 2007, 08:20 AM |
| Be nice Roids.... JR - had the same problem. Im of the opinion that its prob the tendons in the forearm (though it sure does feel like its in the bone!). Muscle strength can increase a whole lot faster than tendon strength can. Basically, back off on the ez bar curls, stick to other forms of curl, but keep the weight light - use the time to do higher rep sets and build up some muscular endurance and give the forearm tendons a chance to recover and strengthen. It will pass as your overall strength increases. |
| Posted by: Roids May 19 2007, 08:55 AM | ||
You've been thru the hazing and you may now start to give advice.  |
| Posted by: altec32 May 19 2007, 11:30 AM |
| Well Im glad I have the almighty Roids approval Just trying to help out. |
| Posted by: TAC May 19 2007, 02:06 PM | ||
You know how when you go to visit your buddy who lives out in the boonies theres always a mean old snaggle-tooth hound dog tied up on a chain in the yard, who growls and snarls at everyone that knocks at the door? Well at BN that's Roids  Welcome to the forum altec, and dont y'all mind him now y'hear |
| Posted by: vanquish May 19 2007, 02:27 PM | ||
I agree. Just stay away from them and do curls that are comfortable for you. Give it two weeks or so and then come back to them. I doubt it will hurt. There's a reason your arm is hurting and you don't want to aggravate the problem. |
| Posted by: EMillZ May 29 2007, 09:43 PM |
| When I do ez bar curls my forearms kill and i can't do them. Barbell curls are where its at. Hopefuly Incarnate will help. |
| Posted by: OmniRed May 30 2007, 12:48 AM |
| Take some muscle milk? Just kidding. |
| Posted by: Singa May 30 2007, 03:52 PM |
| oh shit someones got my avatar...thats gunna fuck me up wen looking for my posts |
| Posted by: EMillZ Jun 3 2007, 09:15 PM |
| My bad i just really like green haze.........weed..... |
| Posted by: opfor101 Jun 3 2007, 09:48 PM | ||||
actually i had the same problem also but it just went away one day, it was quite weird. i believe its just a matter of strengthening the muscles and tendons in the forearms to ease the pressure off the bones in the forearm |
| Posted by: British Beef May 17 2008, 10:17 AM |
| Jesus Roids, what a twat you are. Altec offered sound advice for a problem lots of us suffer from, where in the hell did your outburst come from? As you can see, I rarely post here, yet read everyday. Please, feel free to flame me also for clearly being a noob as I don't post here often, which in your eyes obviously relates to how much of an expert you are in the field of training etc. Altec, take no notice, yes painkillers work however are not a means to an end, you'll just do more damage long-term. EZ seem to be the biggest culprit. Jesus, i never post here however roids has pissed me off no end i had to. This forum really does suffer from aggressive idiots, you can get great advice however many are too hesistant to ask for fear of getting flamed like altec did by this joker. |
| Posted by: Bryan60275 May 17 2008, 11:15 AM | ||||||
A guy I worked out with and I both had the same issue at different times. For me it was straight bar curls. You're not going to die or lose your biceps if you stop doing bicep-specific workouts. If you can do chins, rows, or other back workouts without problems, then just stop doing bicep isolation for a 3-4 weeks and it should heal up. Continuing to aggravate it is only going to hurt you in the long run so don't let your ego influence the decision. |
| Posted by: PotentiallyFatal May 17 2008, 04:55 PM |
| ...for me the problem made itself apparant one day when i was doing a forced bb curl rep with 115 on the bar, at the end of the motion (top, bar in front of face) I felt my tendons "slide back" down my forearm...i realized that not keeping them constantly under tension was the culprit...and then suddenly putting tension back on them (as I lowered the bar) was the cause to the discomfort...if were talking about the same pain, you will agree that it is at its worst just as you rerack/release the bar... sorry for ling winded post...but almost everyone I know has/had this problem. all i can reccommend is to go lighter and concentrate on form entirely...pure fore, start the curl motion from the wrist then transferring the weight from forearm to bicep, at the top/end of the motion make sur eyou keep those tendons/forearms tight...its hurts like hell but its the good pain that leads to growth no injury... |
| Posted by: vanity2 May 19 2008, 11:17 PM |
| When I first started lifting in high school I remember a lot of my friends had this problem. I don't recall ever personally having an issue with but I'm pretty sure that like everyone else said, it'll work itself out. I almost wonder if it's a mild stress-fracture. Like how people first start running or training for marathons, those stress fractures are common. If you're new to training and putting stresses on bones in new ways, it seems feasible to me. |
| Posted by: Deadlock2k1 May 30 2008, 11:29 PM |
| Good sirs, I had this problem as well. I am a mason tender in the summer so this problem coupled with lifting and my job was not acceptable. I went to see a doctor and his belief was that the tendons were overworked and scar tissue had developed (had the pain for a month until my arms literally ceased up on the job). His recommendation was a physical therapist and immediate cortisone shots in each forearm (4 inches down from the elbow). After the excitement of being stabbed in each arm several times, I went home and rested for a week. The pain was still there so it was time to see what the therapist had to say. Now behold, the following is what the therapist told me was wrong and her solution to it. I followed the advice and can now preacher curl with ease. This fix might not work for everyone and is not an "instant miracle cure". The therapist said that a nerve running through my arm was being agitated/pinched by my inflamed forearms. She told me to stop with any activity that could further damage my arms as they were in need of repair and lots of it. I will give a step by step solution as it was given to me in a numerical order to help clear up my rambling. 1: The muscle was inflamed and needed to be relaxed. With the nerve being pinched, I had no chance of relief and working it further was just going to make it worse. She began a 3 week long process of relaxing the muscles in my arms. After the first week I noticed a huge difference. All she did was massage the muscle to release it from its tense state. No pressure on my nerve = no pain. 2: Now that the muscle had calmed down she began exercises with me to show me how to prevent this from acting up again. The idea was to strengthen the arm by slowly adding some resistance to it, more and more every time. Lots of this was done at home with the use of one of those huge rubber bands and holding my arms out in front of me, palms in towards each other, and rocking my wrists away from each other while holding the band. My arms felt better and better. 3: Now this step could also be step 1.5, but for the sake of closing with what I now do every day to prevent this from happening again, I will list it here. STRETCH YOUR FOREARMS! The stretch goes something like this; Right forearm -Tilt your head to the left, not extremely but enough to feel the upcoming stretch. -Right arm down at your side, palm facing behind you -Fingers are to be extended pointing down -Move your arm 1 foot away from your body, as if you were starting a jumping jack -Bend you hand at the wrist to point directly behind you You should now feel a stretch in your forearm. Be careful not to go crazy with this stretch at first. As you get more comfortable with it, you can intensify it by rotating your entire arm back and up. This solved my entire arm pain and I do it every time I do anything with my arms. I even do it on off days after I have worked my bi's. So give it a try and see if it helps. =) |