Elbow Pain When Weight Lifting
February 18, 2012 | Filed Under Weight lifting tips, weightlifting |Elbow pain from weightlifting often occurs with beginners, who intend to gain muscle quickly and therefore start lifting heavy weights. This finally lands them in elbow pain if they’re not careful. However, it also happens to experienced weightlifters after a period of continuous heavy weightlifting, as this starts affecting their elbow joints. Another cause of elbow pain is imbalance while lifting weights. Remember, whilst lifting heavy weights, you also need to maintain a proper body balance, which otherwise can result in injury to any body part - especially elbows and back muscles.
Below are some common types of elbow pain that can be experienced in different parts of the elbow.
Golfer’s elbow
Golfer’s elbow is a sort of elbow pain that occurs in the ulna side of the elbow. Most common weightlifting exercises that cause golfer’s elbow are tricep presses, dumbbell flies and bicep curls, which involve frequent up and down movements of the elbows.
Tendinitis
Tendinitis is another name for tennis elbow. This problem is experienced mostly due to the pulling and pushing movements of elbows during certain exercises. Tendinitis or tennis elbow occurs when lateral epicondyle (a bone on the radius side of the forearm) is rubbed against the tendons of the forearms and triceps.
Pain in front of the elbow
People who over train or perform more workouts on biceps are more prone towards pain in the frontal part of the elbow. Exercises such as the preacher curls, bicep curls, hammer curls and incline curls, performed either with barbells or dumbbells exert a lot of strain in the front region of the elbow.
Pain above the elbow
Most of the people who indulge in long and intense workouts of seated and standing dips can suffer from pain above the elbow region. Excessive workouts or bench press can also result into such an elbow pain.
It is important if you have experienced any of the above pain to consult a weight-lifting trainer and get a proper weightlifting workout prescribed with appropriate weights and right techniques, to avoid future elbow pain.
