Forearm pains

[thedeuce]

Hey bros....im sure that many have probally had the problem i have. When training arms, i get sharp pains on the inner part of my forearm. I have done some reading and ive tried to remedy this by using camber bar etc. Nothing works, and it screws up my training. After a while it hurts even when im doing other exercises. Have any of you had this recurring problem, and what the hell did you do to get rid of it?

 

[joeycrabcakes]

i used to have same problem, and still do, just barely now. I always had skinny, meatless forearms, so i built them up a little and that helped a lot. I definitely do a lot of forearm work nowadays...I dig them always being pumped and veiny. I do realize straight bar curls kills my forearms, so i cant go as heavy with them as e-z curl bar. Maybe youre just stuck with your genetical "forearm splints"? (like shin splints?) who knows.

 

[thedeuce]

i hope not...my forearms get huge, but thats exactly what it feels like....splints. man it sucks!!!! maybe i will focus on doing mederate weight reverse grip as well to see if anything happens.

 

[Grizzly]

No, it's not a function of exercising them more. That's the problem....probably anyway. I had this problem before and my chiro buddy suggest hard, deep massage. His diagnosis was that the muscle fibers had fused together(or something like that) and developed into a sort of scar tissue that needs to be broken up. He said to massage the hell out of them really hard. It hurts, but I don't have the problem anymore, so maybe he was onto somehting.

 

[thedeuce]

ill give that a try...hey, as a matter of fact ill go to a local "spa" for treatment, and get a happy ending while im there too!!!! thanks for the suggestion bro!!! seriously though.....i hope this works, because when it happens, it throws my entire training program off, anytime i have to grip a bar it hurts like hell...even holding the bar on my back while doing squats. ill take your suggestion though, and hopefully ill work through it.

 

[CyniQ]

ill give that a try...hey, as a matter of fact ill go to a local "spa" for treatment, and get a happy ending while im there too!!!! thanks for the suggestion bro!!! seriously though.....i hope this works, because when it happens, it throws my entire training program off, anytime i have to grip a bar it hurts like hell...even holding the bar on my back while doing squats. ill take your suggestion though, and hopefully ill work through it.

A guy that used to train with me had the same problem. It started when he was doing heavy curls. He laid off the curling for a month and it went away. As far as I know it has never come back.

 

[thedeuce]

with that said....what would you do in place of heavy curls? i use standing barbell curls with the olypic bar as my base for my bicep training. what, in your opinion, would be a good alternative?

 

[Girth]

No direct arm work at all would be the best alternative. Solves 2 problems. One of course being no more pain. The other being that more time can be spent on meaningful training.

No dig meant on you Deuce, I just put direct bi and tri training right up there with low intensity cardio. Grip work however.....

 

[CyniQ]

No direct arm work at all would be the best alternative. Solves 2 problems. One of course being no more pain. The other being that more time can be spent on meaningful training.

Yep. It's not going to hurt you to lay off the direct arm work for a month. You may be surprise at how much you grow in that time. Just focus on the heavy combos.