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I bought a BlueTooth headset so I don't have to deal with bending my elbows for a long time to talk on the phone.

would it be consistent to conclude that the effectiveness of the flexbar and sleeping with one's arms straight address the same cause? i.e. imbalance?

i'm not trying to make a point, i just wonder if kind of in an evolutionary way our bodies know to diversify?

Cleveland, if it feels like it is in the center of the elbow it could be biceps tendonitis. I deal with that quite a bit. For me it usually comes from doing a lot of chin-ups (fingers facing you), pushups and curls. Do you also feel some pain / inflamation in the front of the shoulder (the other attachment point)?

bcombs wrote:Cleveland, if it feels like it is in the center of the elbow it could be biceps tendonitis. I deal with that quite a bit. For me it usually comes from doing a lot of chin-ups (fingers facing you), pushups and curls. Do you also feel some pain / inflamation in the front of the shoulder (the other attachment point)?

I don't have any pain in my shoulder but that sounds like it could be the problem. I have been doing a lot of pushups and pull ups lately and my project at the gym has a curling type motion off of a sloper/pinch hold. What do you do when your is acting up? Ice and Ibuprofen?

Abrasive Vag, that hurts just thinking about it!

in the long run, try to strengthen your opposing muscles with pushups and dips, if it doesn't hurt to do them

I try not to do ibuprofen, usually I just lay off those excercises, which is always hard to do. I tend to do more chin-ups (as opposed to pull-ups) because I'm better at them, but that is what causes it for me.

dustonian wrote:in the long run, try to strengthen your opposing muscles with pushups and dips, if it doesn't hurt to do them

Push ups actually hurt pretty badly, I might try some dips, which do you prefer grizzly or skoal? 8)

bcombs wrote:I try not to do ibuprofen, usually I just lay off those excercises, which is always hard to do. I tend to do more chin-ups (as opposed to pull-ups) because I'm better at them, but that is what causes it for me.

Does it go away if you rest for a little while or is it one of those things that heals while you aren't doing the exercises and then comes back when you start doing them again?

Cleveland wrote:

bcombs wrote:I try not to do ibuprofen, usually I just lay off those excercises, which is always hard to do. I tend to do more chin-ups (as opposed to pull-ups) because I'm better at them, but that is what causes it for me.

Does it go away if you rest for a little while or is it one of those things that heals while you aren't doing the exercises and then comes back when you start doing them again?

The last time that it got bad I gave it 2 weeks off and it was good as long as I lightened up on the pushups / pullups. IIRC, I was doing p90x at the time and the routine included a ton of pushups and pullups. So it could be a side effect of finishing the 90 days which kept it away that time. Maybe just avoiding pushups / pullups on back to back days would be enough? Or lower your # rep / # sets or something. I don't recall it affecting climbing in any way other than the annoyance of the pain.

I guess it would depend on your goals. If you are trying to work opposing muscles with an injury prevention approach you could likely do a lot less than you are and have it still be worthwhile. Like Dustin said, a few pushups and dips 2 times a week maybe? What was the goal?