forearm pain

Hi gents,
I'm seriously struggling with forearm muscle pain.
Wether training shoulders, bi, tri, chest the forearms are used... Gotten the point where I had to cut my work out a tad shorter today due to the discomfort...
Anyone else experience this... What do you do to aid the pain..?
Thanks

Cramps or pain ? cramps = not enough water but u would know that ?
Get the message about the Turbo ?

mike123 wrote: Cramps or pain ? cramps = not enough water but u would know that ?
Get the message about the Turbo ?

Its more pain... I drink 6l of water a day and 5 cups of green tea, so my water intake is pretty good.

Have you tried those forearm wrist straps?

beemer wrote: Have you tried those forearm wrist straps?

nopes I have not... Are you using them? Do they work well?

Bandit1200 wrote:

beemer wrote: Have you tried those forearm wrist straps?

nopes I have not... Are you using them? Do they work well?

Had the same prob, the straps helped alot, also started flax seed oil and drinking more water. Altogether the pain is now manageable. Felt it mostly barbell bicep curling

Bandit1200 wrote:

beemer wrote: Have you tried those forearm wrist straps?

nopes I have not... Are you using them? Do they work well?

I've used them before and they work. The one's at the pharmacy are quite affordable. They look like bandages and come in long lengths which you can cut up. Unless you prefer the more fancier one's.

When I first started weight training I would have weird pains in my forearms... It would be fine while I was curling... but when I put the weight down and released the tension on my arms this pain would should up my forearms... I took cataflam... and eventually it went away... if it persists you might have a different problem.

If I rest over the weekend then start training monday forearms are fine... As the week and training progress it starts up again... To me it feels like my forearms aren't getting a break except on leg days.
Ill gets some straps and see how that goes...

Hey Guys!

I had this problem and it is an injury.

It is either a tendonitis, or compartment syndrome! I would get it checked if i were you. I had been struggling for years and mine is healed now. After hours of stretching, icing, etc. Sometimes i even had to take 2 weeks off from upper body completely!

Get it checked now, and avoid problems in the future! Only issue I had with wrist wraps was it limits the blood flow a little more so actually made mine worse!

Hope it gets better man!

Switch wrote: Hey Guys!

I had this problem and it is an injury.

It is either a tendonitis, or compartment syndrome! I would get it checked if i were you. I had been struggling for years and mine is healed now. After hours of stretching, icing, etc. Sometimes i even had to take 2 weeks off from upper body completely!

Get it checked now, and avoid problems in the future! Only issue I had with wrist wraps was it limits the blood flow a little more so actually made mine worse!

Hope it gets better man!

Shot for the reply... Rested over the weekend and did not gym this morning. Feeling much better$m going hit the gym in the mornibg and see how it goes. Thanks

Your forarms are overtrained.
The good thing is that with a rest/heal and training cycle you will get huge forearms.
The bad news is that you probably have lousy form not targeting the muscle group you are training(other than forearms) properly. Usually by using too much weight where you can get away with less.

jackrabbit1 wrote: Your forarms are overtrained.
The good thing is that with a rest/heal and training cycle you will get huge forearms.
The bad news is that you probably have lousy form not targeting the muscle group you are training(other than forearms) properly. Usually by using too much weight where you can get away with less.

Thanks.
I do between 12 and 8 reps per set. If I can easily do 15 to 16 reps I tend to go slightly heavier to get back to the 12 rep range...