It is winter and the off season so naturaly I have be doing exercises with weights and stuff. After About two weeks of doing bisept curls I got a pain in my fore arm. It is kind of hard to explain where it is but... If you stick out your left hand the pain is on the under side of the bone on the left side. This is really frustrating because I had almost got a dubble pumpand now it is gone. I really want to start lifting again but every time I start the pain returns on the second day. please help I want to lift again:cry:

aceman800n wrote:

It is winter and the off season so naturaly I have be doing exercises with weights and stuff. After About two weeks of doing bisept curls I got a pain in my fore arm. It is kind of hard toexplain where it is but... If you stick out your left hand the pain is on the under side of the bone on the left side. This is really frustrating because I had almost got a dubble pumpand now it is gone. I really want to start lifting again but every time I start the pain returns on the second day. please help I want to lift again:cry:

It amazes me that people don't listen to what their body is telling them. You arm hurts because you are causing damage to tissues. Damage causes scar tissue, which alters function permenently. As a result the surrounding tissues becomes more prone to injury as elasticity is lost and greater stress is placed on surouding healthy tissue. The rest of the muscle must work harder to compensate and this is likely to cause further injury at a later time.

If you don't let you body get out of this inflamatory response phase, the healthy tissue surrounding the damaged tissue will be damaged. As your body tries to remove damaged tissue, it will take the healthy surrounding tissue along as well. This means the area of injury will actually grow if you don't rest. You should take 48--72 hours COMPLETLEY OFF with no activity. This is how long it takes for the body to get passed the inflamatory phase of cellular response. Do NOTHING which causes soreness or pain to the area for 48-72 hours. Then you can begin to resume activities which are PAIN FREE ONLY. Give it a a week before you begin to resuming your previous activity levels.

The choice is yours but you don't want to develop tenis elbow trust me, you use your forarms for virtually everything you do with your hands.

Last but not least there is no reason to lift weights. Check out more about that on this other article I wrote.

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Good Luck,
Whitewaterules

I think saying that \"there is no reason to lift weights\" is a bit excessive. I always do some weight training in the winter, and I've found that is immensely helpful when I get back on the water full time. I'm no expert, and I can only speak from my own experience. But in my experience, the weight training has been very helpful, much more so than any other off season training.

Dave
Team Riot

I would reccomend that you drop down the weight you are using for the bicep curl. In addition, grab about a 12lb weight. Rest your elbow on your knee and rotate your wrist. It's a great way to strengthen the forarm, if that is what the problem is. In addition, the first response to this post appeared pretty condesending and i think that we need to work on keeping this more positive instead of inflammatory.

I have been doing this exercise where you drill a hole through a 1/2 in. dowl and put a rope through and tie one end to a weight and twist your hand so the rope winds around the dowel.

the one thing almost everybody does wrong with weights is what is bicept curls going to help unless you are picking water up, stick with more of core musscle exercises, hold your crunch up and do elbow tochs to your knees alternating. i see using a bungy or something for bicept curls but majority of your tricks, rolls, and anything has more to do with your abs than any other musscle!

It's not the amount of weight but the way the body actually works. The body uses a closed chain lever system. The apendage is in contact with another stabilising platform (the paddle between two hands and paddle in the water). Pull ups, push-ups, chin-ups, sit ups, and dips are also close chained movements, FUNCTONAL. Lifting heavy objects is better than nothing most of the time but close chained exersises are still more effective and safer. This is all confirmed by scientific studies and found in any college book on biomechanics and/or kineseology.

aceman800n wrote:

I have been doing this exercise where you drill a hole through a 1/2 in. dowl and put a rope through and tie one end to a weight and twist your hand so the rope winds around the dowel.

I know that exercise. Rock climbers use that one. They exercise their forearms to increase endurance, and strength for dynamic moves. As a paddler I don't see the need to increase your forearm and finger strength to very high levels.

If you're lifting weights, that is usually suffient to exercise your forearms. Many people I know, that train, don't exercise their forearms specifically. Unless of course they have to.. Just my two cents. Use it, don't use it.

Take it easy. STOP if you feel pain, ALWAYS!

i had the same kind of thing when i was kayaking all the time in NZ. the other guys that i was with said that it was called tendonitus. what they said was happening was that after working out a lot of the same muscle, more and more of the blood in the tendon gets pushed out. since there isn't much blood there to begin with, all the acid and crap that happens as a result of the workout doesn't get flushed out.

the only thing that helped me was rest and ibuprofen.

one of my friends kept going and ignored the pain, and he ended up getting so bad that he couldn't paddle for a few months. i would much rather rest a bit and still be able to paddle.