Tricep tendon? Back of the elbow?
Yes sir, thats the one.
I got you bro. Had it for ages. Couldnt bench 95 lbs anymore without extreme pain. Heres what cured it in weeks.
Negatives!
Anything you can do to put that tendon under pressure and only do the eccentric (negative) portion of the exercise. Even if it's just slowly lowering your bodyweight over a counter or something. The thing that really cured it for me was using cables. Grab a bare cable with the bad arm as if you were planning to do single are tricep pressdowns. Use your good arm to force the weight down and then do the full negative very slowly with the hurt arm. Repeat as much as you can and move up in weight. Youll likely hear popping and crackling as the frayed tendon fibers realign correctly.
Do not do any pushing whatsoever with it for a couple weeks. Just do negatives on it as often as you can.
I found that lowering my weight onto a counter using just the hurt arm worked very well and you can do it all throughout the day. Hope I explained this somewhat well enough to get the idea.
Ill also add that when I got this years ago I had recently spent months with tendonitis in my rotator cuff as well. When I finally got healthy, I started experimenting with different workout programs and started a Yates style high intensity/low volume system. I found pretty quickly that my joints felt WAY better and that my body responded better than it ever did doing volume.
A few years later I got on trt and my tendonitis issues basically disappeared entirely.
Just my personal experience. Might help.
This might actually be your best posts to date
The advice on the negatives is dead on.
I got you bro. Had it for ages. Couldnt bench 95 lbs anymore without extreme pain. Heres what cured it in weeks.
Negatives!
Anything you can do to put that tendon under pressure and only do the eccentric (negative) portion of the exercise. Even if it's just slowly lowering your bodyweight over a counter or something. The thing that really cured it for me was using cables. Grab a bare cable with the bad arm as if you were planning to do single are tricep pressdowns. Use your good arm to force the weight down and then do the full negative very slowly with the hurt arm. Repeat as much as you can and move up in weight. Youll likely hear popping and crackling as the frayed tendon fibers realign correctly.
Do not do any pushing whatsoever with it for a couple weeks. Just do negatives on it as often as you can.
I found that lowering my weight onto a counter using just the hurt arm worked very well and you can do it all throughout the day. Hope I explained this somewhat well enough to get the idea.
In two posts about tendonitis?
Shit. I really need to up my game.
Seriously, I read a medical joirnal about healing achilles tendonitis in this way and gave it a shot on the tricep tendon. It really works for anywhere you get it but it's harder to do eccentrics on some tendons.
Send me that info because I can barely ****ing walk going on 2 years now. Surprised it hasn't torn yet.
Send me that info because I can barely ****ing walk going on 2 years now. Surprised it hasn't torn yet.
I got you bro. Had it for ages. Couldnt bench 95 lbs anymore without extreme pain. Heres what cured it in weeks.
Negatives!
Anything you can do to put that tendon under pressure and only do the eccentric (negative) portion of the exercise. Even if it's just slowly lowering your bodyweight over a counter or something. The thing that really cured it for me was using cables. Grab a bare cable with the bad arm as if you were planning to do single are tricep pressdowns. Use your good arm to force the weight down and then do the full negative very slowly with the hurt arm. Repeat as much as you can and move up in weight. Youll likely hear popping and crackling as the frayed tendon fibers realign correctly.
Do not do any pushing whatsoever with it for a couple weeks. Just do negatives on it as often as you can.
I found that lowering my weight onto a counter using just the hurt arm worked very well and you can do it all throughout the day. Hope I explained this somewhat well enough to get the idea.