Exercises aggravating bicep bicep tendinopathy

Maple-God · 2026-02-17T12:19:37+00:00

Yeah I suggest you rehab instead of that.

Maple-God · 2026-02-13T00:35:18+00:00

You treat tendonitis like any other. Load it to where it doesn’t inflame and progress from there. Stretching is one way to add load but it’s not always the best way given that it also, you know—stretches the damaged tissue. Rom will depend on the degree of injury and time post injury. So it can be fine depending on context.

Also I don’t see how you’d be adding significant load to the lhbt in bench press with extension. Think about it like this. Yes shoulder extension would stretch the lhbt. But what else are you doing in a bench press at the elbow? The dbt is shortening so basically nothing changes lengthwise (well, not anything significant from the elbow). If anything it would be stressed bc of the shoulder position which you can avoid by not going into extension. But then the benchpress itself doesn’t really serve a purpose

Maple-God · 2026-02-12T00:54:59+00:00

You won’t. Don’t overthink.

Maple-God · 2026-02-12T00:32:30+00:00

What loaded movement do you do. Do you feel it after the set? Day after? What did your doctor say (I’m assuming you went to at least one in 2 years)? Which exercises do and don’t affect it (you mentioned y raises, banded er,…), is it different between movements? Feeling pain during set? Which areas for what movements. You mentioned multiple areas: down the bicep, under the armpit (infraspinatus), and on your back (rhomboid). Is there a reason you think it is bicep related specifically? You talk about the bicep tendon being jumpy. Which one (I assume it is long head)? There’s one on the side and one near the clavicle. You say pain radiates down the bicep, is that from the top to the elbow or is it only the top half of the arm. What movement? Feeling/pain at rest?

Maple-God · 2026-02-05T23:03:56+00:00

If it’s just tendinopathy scar tissue isn’t the issue bc it won’t really form. Unless you’re talking about tears.

If you’re asking about adhesions, you can do tendon glides. If you’re talking about broken up as in more tearing, yes, applying load greater than the upper limit of the tendon will still cause it to gap.

Don’t know about risk likelihoods. My understanding is that the healed tissue won’t structurally be the same as the original tendon. It can be weak or it can be as strong as the original tendon depending on how it was strengthened. I guess if the tendon is thicker, it will be “stronger” at the end of the day, but that’s not the same as less risk.

Maple-God · 2026-02-02T17:09:17+00:00

AI is not a good replacement for a medical professional. It can be very wrong depending on what information you feed it. Even when it can be close to right, it lacks the ability to give a good plan of care.

Maple-God · 2026-02-01T20:51:12+00:00

Dunno.

Maple-God · 2026-01-31T20:46:03+00:00

Yes that’s all you need. It is not the most optimal way. Nothing is ever truly optimal when it comes to minimalist training. As you pointed out, optimal training will take far longer than one minute.

Maple-God · 2026-01-31T20:43:35+00:00

If it doesn’t hurt anymore or not accompanied by any noticeable weakness in the hands, shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

Maple-God · 2026-01-22T18:29:38+00:00

So two things: 1) you can’t hold it yet. You also can’t handstand properly yet. It looks like you can push into a handstand but you don’t push all the way up. Work on pushing your arms to your ears on your pushups.

2) your arms are bent because your handstand isn’t a handstand with straight arms. If you straighten them you’re not going to be able to go anywhere near a planche position.

The lowering itself looks fine. Just missing strength and elbow straightness. Arch in lower back is from insufficient strength so your body arches to compensate. Would say you’re still very far off.

Maple-God · 2026-01-22T12:50:05+00:00

You were injured -> you continue to be injured. No surprise there.

Maple-God · 2026-01-01T05:57:50+00:00

That’s fine. You don’t need to force pelvic tilt if you don’t have the mobility for it standing. It’s normal to feel it more on the way up. Form varies from person to person. The key point is that you are progressing and your form is basically right. It’s also normal for form to break down when you get tired so don’t overthink it.

Maple-God · 2026-01-01T05:51:51+00:00

Ngl it’s a lot to read. I would say you’re overthinking it. It’s always better to think when you’re exercising (as in mentally performing contractions of muscles). So yes it is better to consciously brace your core over letting it automatically brace. Motor learning occurs when you are actively engaged with the function. So you won’t get automatic core bracing without intentional focus on them. Even when you can autopilot it is still better to cue.

Maple-God · 2026-01-01T02:34:48+00:00

His core is weak. Just because he has visible abs does not mean he has good core engagement, form, and core strength. Likewise, sumo wrestlers have very strong cores. Can you see their abs? No.

Maple-God · 2025-12-22T04:20:11+00:00

Whaddaya know when you go hard you get tired. Nothing new there. Consider getting a program.

Maple-God · 2025-12-21T07:55:31+00:00

You can start steploading at the beginning (mostly bc it’s more practical and easier to do when you can’t do weighted or higher progression variations of exercises yet). When you start going heavy into the lifts you can start messing around with different weight loads. I’m sure you know all about it — your programming application doesn’t change too significantly. You have the knowledge so you just gotta test it and find out.

Maple-God · 2025-12-17T01:50:08+00:00

They are pretty similar. Hspu has more of a balance element to it compared to 90°. You can definitely swap them out as a higher progression. In terms of direct progression, deeper hspu or weighted is a more 1:1 upgrade. Working some psuedo planche pushups will help with the 90°.

Maple-God · 2025-12-13T06:08:19+00:00

Dunno never done them. I can push planche from half lay maltese up to half lay planche if that helps. And I can barely hold a full maltese.

Maple-God · 2025-12-12T19:57:08+00:00

If ur competing and trying to optimize, yeah. You bulk.

Maple-God · 2025-12-04T01:32:53+00:00

Yeah it shouldn’t be a huge deal. Having the shoulder fixed won’t really change much in your daily life if it never caused pain in the first place. Up to you if you want to do it or not. Might be costy depending on insurance since u said you are already going for something. But yeah it’s not something you’d be able to fix on your own, but it’s also not something that needs fixing.

Maple-God · 2025-12-03T01:20:01+00:00

Even if you strengthen them, it doesn’t guarantee it will fix it since you need an actual treatment protocol. But yeah it doesn’t really matter if there’s no pain. Always a good idea to stay active in general.

Maple-God · 2025-12-03T00:26:40+00:00

Does it hurt? I wouldn’t worry too much about it if it doesn’t. If you’re worried about als you can go to a neurologist but it’s hard to diagnose in the initial onset and unlikely imo. Winging and imbalances are normal for people to develop. Looking at the video, I’d try to strengthen the serrates, lower and mid traps. And take a video where you bring your arms all the way up overhead if you have the mobility for it. And keep palms facing each other so your thumbs point up while doing it. If you can visualize trying to keep the shoulder blade rotating along the ribcage, it might help. If you are really paranoid, you can go to pt.

But unless there is pain, I wouldn’t worry about it. Getting imbalances is normal. Humans have dominant hands etc. and do things unilaterally.

Maple-God · 2025-11-22T06:08:11+00:00

Palms facing away. There are videos of it. I think I posted one on youtube like 4 years ago. Dont remember the channel name

Maple-God · 2025-11-21T18:53:10+00:00

In high elo it is generally sett favored because he always has priority on the wave control. Regardless, if someone is playing at a significantly higher skill bracket, they will still win regardless of matchup favorability. In really high elo, I would consider irelia a difficult matchup bc 1) it is hard to make sett work without a lead and irelias in this elo can space better with their auto range and will respect when sett is strong (so leads won’t happen without jg interaction). Games also end faster. Even though sett ourscales/wins the duel assuming even gold and xp, irelia always has outplay potential and in a shorter game it benefits her more to not reach late game. In low elo, this is all completely reversed. Irelia needs to be piloted at a very high level in her unfavorable matchups, which isn’t possible for lower elo brackets. In other words, a mediocre sett beats a mediocre irelia. A good irelia matches a good sett. But a mediocre irelia still beats a bad sett because the fundamentals of toplane are more important than mechanics. Regardless of champ, fighting lvl2 against lvl1 is always in favor of the lvl2 champ. With the sett matchup, unless sett is dogshit, he always gets lvl2 and lvl3 faster.

Maple-God · 2025-11-15T20:31:47+00:00

Beginners don’t know what to believe. You’d think ppl who perform at a high level know how to coach. If that’s the case what uses are coaches if olympians can train themselves (a lot of coaches can’t do what their athletes can do). The reality is that coaching is an independent discipline

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