Normally when you exercise it is a good thing to feel a “burn” in your muscles. It means you are working them near capacity which results in strength and power gains down the road. Today at the gym I had the bad kind of burn, the joint type. I was doing my first tricep exercise, standing overhead extensions with a pronated grip. My elbows always feel a bit creaky when I do my first tricep exercise but this was pretty severe pain shooting down the inside of my right elbow. I stopped after rep 5 and then tried again laying on a bench only to be met with the same sort of burning pain.
I eventually was able to do some tricep work with a supinated grip that was less painful as long as I kept the weight amount light. I am hoping this is just a small injury bump in the road and not the start of something drawn out and chronic.
Despite putting in a lot of squat work my lower body still feels functional today, unlike the last time where I became a cripple for three days. The only way to avoid feeling like a cripple is to keep squatting, wonderful.
Today’s Workout
5 minutes cardio/stretching
Standing alternating dumbbell curl – 25lbs x 12
Standing single arm tricep cable press down supinated grip – 40lbs x 8
Standing alternating dumbbell curl – 40lbs x 8
Standing single arm tricep cable press down supinated grip – 40lbs x 8
Standing alternating dumbbell curl – 50lbs x 4
Standing single arm tricep cable press down supinated grip – 40lbs x 8
Standing one arm dumbbell preacher curl – 25lbs x 10
Seated one arm dumbbell tricep extension – 20lbs x 10
Standing one arm dumbbell preacher curl – 35lbs x 6
Seated one arm dumbbell tricep extension – 25lbs x 10
Seated Cybex preacher curl – 110lbs x 4
Seated Cybex preacher hammer curl – 50lbs x 10
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