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This afternoon, some 2-3 hrs after working out, I was suddenly unable to extend my left arm w/o pain.
Raising it with the arm bent is no problem, but even letting it hang down and let gravity do its' work hurts.
I've done several upper body exercises, among which 'jerky' push presses , 1-arm lat pull downs & db swings (12kg).
The jerky push presses are relatively new for me and I may have exaggarated things for a bit by doing static holds overhead at the end of some sets and esp the final (lighter) set.
But why, if that's the culprit would it only have started hurting so much 2-3 hours after the workout?
What's more.. how long does it takes before this pain subsides? Right now I'm even afraid to lift the lightest object for fear of dropping it and I'm scared of driving..
In the elbow itself, but I can't really make up my mind if it hurts more on the inside or on the outside.
Flexing doesn't hurt, but extending it , hurts like hell.
Rotating the wrist hurts too, moreso when I twist it to the left (radix side?) than to the right (ulnar side?). Again, it hurts on both sides, but seems to hurt more on the inside of the elbow joint.
FWIW, the 1-arm LPD has me do a rotating movement during the pull down. While I've done those many times, it may have been overkill after heavy push presses?
(current workout schedule is a bit of a mess)
The problem disappeared almost as suddenly as it appeared.
It started some 2-3 hrs after doing jerky push presses (I think it was jerks, but what do I know) and some of the last sets were a bit wobbly, esp when lowering the weight and doing a static hold for most reps with locked elbows, which is the most likely cause of doing me in.
The next time I did jerks for myself, the wt was a bit lower . This was most definitely the cause of the problem, as even now, flexing was a bit painful for a few hrs later in the day.
Seems to me that when I'm going to learn actual jerks as I can do cleans again, this might grow into a bigger problem, since the weights sofar are in the 'sissy range'.
What could I do to prevent this from becoming a problem apart from not doing jerks ?
Excuse me, noload, what are you saying? There's not a whole lot of ways in which you can do a jerk. But yes, it is true that I'm totally not used to suddenly jerking a bar overhead.. even push presses were new after having done strict military presses for the longest time.
Thought something along the same lines (was on my lips). At least there's a bit more effort made in posting semi-helpful remarks rather than just random stories.
Loved the one about uselessness of DanceDanceRevolution in the GWF thread.
Elbow extension barely possible w/o pain
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