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Hi guys,

I had a participant come up to me today an say she was having pain on the backs of her forearms. She said it started in the wrist and traveled up to the elbow. She uses a heavy but safe weight, so I was wondering if anyone else experiences this issue or knows about it.

She said it happenes in the dead lifts and stuff not so much the C&P.

Is it just her forearms being tired from holding a heavy weight?

I know each time i increase my weights that my forearms take a while to adjust holding the weight. 

Wow. I'm sitting here with an ice pack on my forearm reading this!  

Is the back of the forearm the top or bottom? The pain I have is on the top - the side where your writstwatch face sits. Starts about 2 inches above the wrist and goes up to the elbow area. Very severe pain - and I'm no SBG (sissy baby girl) about pain.

I don't think it's the back track - I think it's the shoulder track. I had this happen as a participant over a year ago when the mac-raise (sp?) was in that release, and now that I've done 65, I can't even hold a soda can with my left hand - it just drops out of my hand. This is a form of tendonitis - and it is a real pain in the you-know-what. Ice, rest, ibuprofen, and more rest are all that works. If anyone knows of anything else, PLEASE let me know. This hurts a LOT. No more of that move for me. I'll teach it with light weights (keeping mum about how I feel about the move) then once the release is "done" I won't teach that track again. It's too bad - because the music is pretty neat!

Check the wrist, check the wrist, check the wrist!

Many people bend their wrist while holding the bar doing chest,tricep presses, overhead presses and sometimes even when rowings. This create unnecessary stress to the wrist and forearms.

Hi my advice would be stop - don't do the exercise if you are experiencing any pain at all. Please see a Dr for any specialised medical help.

pipera:

Hi my advice would be stop - don't do the exercise if you are experiencing any pain at all. Please see a Dr for any specialised medical help.

 

Agree!  If it is an injury that has been going on for awhile, a doc will need to evaluate and treat it.  You can get "tennis elbow" from doing PUMP with high weights and lots of reps.  Also, if people do too many classes a week, fatigue can strain the tendons.  Ice and see a doc.

This sounds like she has been lifting a weight that is too heavy for her. I've had something similar on the weights floor, someone explained it to me as "shin splints" but in the wrist/forearms.

The only fix was, back off the weight.