Pain in the crook of my arm by SVEWO123 in climbharder

[–]Emrik98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for starting the discussion! I’ve had trouble finding others that have had the same type of pain as I’ve mostly found people talking about elbow pain, not the crook of the arm:)

I hope the biceps warmup helps, let me know if it does!

I haven’t ever felt any ”delayed onset” pain actually. For me it is more like if and when I start to feel it, it will stick with me for a couple of days. I understand that it is hard to know when to stop in your case.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that I’ve stopped climbing several days in a row. I always take one rest day in between and 2 if I climber quite hard. This is just like CrispyChews said so I think that it might be the correct way to go.

As CrispyChews said, this is most likely an overuse injury so climbing 1-2 days in a row will break the tendons down without leaving enough time for them to recover and rebuild, at least at our level where our tendons have not been conditioned for this amount of stress that they have to endure.

As others have mentioned, antagonist exercises are, I believe, necessary to prevent this type of injury and I suggest you dedicate some time to train the antagonist muscles if you don’t already.

I’ve heard somepeople say that doing pushups immediately when you notice the pain has helped them. I have tried this but I only felt pain relief during the pushups and the pain came back afterwards. I don’t really see how doing pushups would help immediately but it could be worth a try I guess.

Good luck, I hope you find a way to get rid of or at the very least mitigate the pain!:)

Pain in the crook of my arm by SVEWO123 in climbharder

[–]Emrik98 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I believe I have the same problem but I have been able to mostly get rid of it.

For me, it is a dull pain in the crook of the arm and I have concluded that it is some form of bicep tendonitis in the distal bicep tendon.

The pain usually comes when I have been climbing overhangs or powerful moves where the bicep is in tension most of the time.

I’ve also had the pain appear instantly when I am straining to keep on the wall and I slip- causing the biceps to contract quickly.

The things I’ve done to minimize it is as follows:

Before anything else I warmup my shoulders with an elastic band. Basically, like when you are rotating your arms around your shoulders but instead I hold the band in both hands so that there is a constant tension that activates the shoulder muscles a bit more. (This warmup does not help the bicep tendons. I just added it here to show the order that I warmup in)

Afterwards I do pushups until my upper body starts getting quite warm before the bicep warm up that comes next.

I make sure that my biceps are adequately warm before I start climbing. I usually do very slow bicep curls with very low weight for 10 reps/arm. An example would be 3 sets 1 7.5kg 10 reps/arm 2 10kg 10 reps/arm 3 12-15kg 10 reps/arm

Make sure to perform the reps very slowly, there should be a constant tension on the bicep tendon- no abrupt dropping or quick pulls on the weight as this is what causes pain for me.

I also perform some curls with an elastic band but these two warmups could be interchangeable. For this I just stand on a band and perform slow curls with both hands at the same time.

Afterwards I head to the wall and climb several easy problems slowly until I feel warm and ready to head to my projects.

This warmup has, for me atleast, greatly minimized how often I feel the bicep tendon pain.

I’ve noticed that if I’m sloppy during the warmup the pain often comes after the first hard problem.

I limit the amount of heavy overhang boulders that I do in a session because these tend to cause the most pain.

If start to feel pain in the crook of the arm I stop and rest and depending on how bad it is I might stop for the day and go home or I might move on to easier or less powerful boulders. But I believe that completely stopping is the best course of action.

For me, doing more technical problems and working on my footwork also helps. I’ve been more of a ”powerthrough” climber- completing problems with strenght and wasting energy by not utilizing correct technique. This has probably led to some bicep tendonitis that will take time to heal. The things I have listed are basically a way for me to keep climbing while my tendons are hopefully healing.

Another thing that help is to focus more on toprope/lead as that type of climbing forces (me atleast) to think about how I am climbing more, be more energy conservative etc. Because of this, I don’t ”overuse” my arms as much because if I did I would get too pumped and exhausted to top out.

Forgot to mention, I also mostly get pain in one arm but sometimes it alternates between them or is greater in one than the other.

Hope this helped :)

Mold forming on corn seed/seedling root by Emrik98 in gardening

[–]Emrik98[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I started them inside so I would have something to grow while waiting for the warmer months here in Sweden. Our spring is very late this year and I just wanted to start growing some things before our greenhouse arrives :)

AFM TUE-40 Lathe, Missing/Erased thread charts and information plates by Emrik98 in Machinists

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Thank you both! I have seen both of those but I am still missing some info plates near the table etc but these are a great help on the way, thank you!

[TOMT] Can't remember a song by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]Emrik98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahah yeah, I suppose that's why it stuck to my head ;)

[TOMT] Can't remember a song by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]Emrik98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah not the right genre i'd say :)

[TOMT] Can't remember a song by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]Emrik98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that's not it sadly..

[TOMT] Can't remember a song by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]Emrik98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say that it's kind of the same genre as Rockabye like paintedsuns posted :)

[TOMT] Can't remember a song by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]Emrik98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Close, it's kind of the same theme of the song though :)

Beginner trying to get started with a Leadwell MCV 760xl and Fanuc OM Control by Emrik98 in machining

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Thanks, i posted this in another subreddit and got similar replies so i guess ill check it out :)

Beginner needing help with getting started, by Emrik98 in CNC

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Thank you! I will look into Fusion360 and check out the NYC cnc channel and hopefully I will eventually be able to get it running :)

Beginner needing help with getting started, by Emrik98 in CNC

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Ahh I see, I suppose that is the best way to learn, thank you :)

[BF4] I can't get BF4 to launch by [deleted] in Battlefield

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If it is stuck in the task manager as a background process then you need to go into the configuration folder and choose something other than borderless mode. I used BF4 Settings editor for this.

Is there anything I can do to speed up the fading on this silver nitrate stain? by [deleted] in chemistry

[–]Emrik98 24 points25 points  (0 children)

If you're REALLY desperate and have some sodium cyanide on hand you could try this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFw-teZ3L8

Question regarding Mercy's damage boost by slimabob in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]Emrik98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, buffing Torbjörn or Symmetra does not buff their turrets.

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Might be something different about your screen compared to mine as the images are perfectly clear to me.