First Experience with Tendinitis
Sunday, November 18th, 2007I had my first training related injury this past week. Tendinitis between my left shoulder and arm made itself known on Monday.
I was training chest and triceps and noticed my left arm was not performing up to its normal 110%. I finished my training by cutting the weight down and hitting more reps. I did the same on Tuesday for back and biceps thinking it was just soreness from muscle fibers not worked hard before. But after this workout I knew something was just not right.
Props to Bodybuilding.com for the excellent articles they publish. It is one of these articles that helped me diagnose the injury I have and how to go about letting it heal(http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drryan13.htm).
I took Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off to let the tendon heal but went ahead on Saturday and trained legs since my shoulders and arms only assist with stabilizing during legs. BTW, I had an excellent leg session.
If I can fault anything for developing the tendinitis it would be the wide grip pull-ups I have been doing. I always make sure not to swing during the exercise and keep the movement slow and controlled but I can say that this exercise has never felt right to me. I’ve learned my lesson here and will stick with chin-ups from now on 
Keep movin’ the iron and training strong! -Jeff
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