chloroflexus
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I haven't been able to find any good information on this, so I thought it was probable someone here had experienced this.
I started a lifting program about a year ago that does about 12 hard sets per focus area. I do 4-6 reps until I have the weight mastered, and then I up the weight and start over until I can master 6 reps. After a few months, I noticed my forearms hurt while doing curls on a straight bar but not hammer curls with dumbells. So I bought a curl bar and that helped for a bit, but then the pain came back. It feels like shin splints, which I suffered from playing basketball growing up, but it's along the edge of the ulna about a third of the way up from the elbow.
To try to help it, I started doing higher reps, 10-12, at lower weights. I have also intermittently done some forearm curls with a bar to try to increase my forearm strength. It seems to help, but I am still having some pain.
When I played basketball, there often wasn't a choice. If I didn't practice, I didn't play, so I grunted through shin splints. Sometimes, taping would enable me to get through practice; however overall, it was just time and suffering through it that eventually got rid of them. Is the approch here similar? Does anyone have a similar experience and was able to get through it? I know there's the common thing to rest until it's better, and I guess I can eventually get there, but I'd rather modify or do something else until I can get through this. The pain has become more tolerable, to the point of being able to do curls at lower weights, but if I try to do some some movements involving forearms, it will still hurt.
Thanks!
I started a lifting program about a year ago that does about 12 hard sets per focus area. I do 4-6 reps until I have the weight mastered, and then I up the weight and start over until I can master 6 reps. After a few months, I noticed my forearms hurt while doing curls on a straight bar but not hammer curls with dumbells. So I bought a curl bar and that helped for a bit, but then the pain came back. It feels like shin splints, which I suffered from playing basketball growing up, but it's along the edge of the ulna about a third of the way up from the elbow.
To try to help it, I started doing higher reps, 10-12, at lower weights. I have also intermittently done some forearm curls with a bar to try to increase my forearm strength. It seems to help, but I am still having some pain.
When I played basketball, there often wasn't a choice. If I didn't practice, I didn't play, so I grunted through shin splints. Sometimes, taping would enable me to get through practice; however overall, it was just time and suffering through it that eventually got rid of them. Is the approch here similar? Does anyone have a similar experience and was able to get through it? I know there's the common thing to rest until it's better, and I guess I can eventually get there, but I'd rather modify or do something else until I can get through this. The pain has become more tolerable, to the point of being able to do curls at lower weights, but if I try to do some some movements involving forearms, it will still hurt.
Thanks!