Elbow injury
Yes – again! But this time it isn’t the nerve: it is probably the triceps tendon. The injury itself happened about ten days ago, during a lock-out workout. I always feel a little tenderness when I start doing lock-outs. But this time it is more than that.
I don’t have my movement filmed, but I think I know what is going on: hyper-extension of the elbow joint. Either my grip is still wider than it should or it is just that I am hyper-extending the elbow for some other wrong reason. Since obviously there is no epidemiological assessment of this injury among lifters, I don’t know how it is distributed. But I strongly suspect that women benchers would be more prone to having them. First, we are more flexible and our joint softer. Second, the arm muscle volume is smaller.
In any case, I guess I know how to prevent recurrence of this very nasty problem.
I have had many sport related injuries but one thing I am pretty sure of: I learned a lot from each of them. First I had this stupid ulnar nerve injury while playing with widening the grip too wide; then I broke my leg while squatting on a slippery surface; then I almost crushed my skull under the bar while benching with insufficiently instructed assistance.
As long as they don’t turn me into a DEAD lifter, my injuries are quite useful to the community – a real experimental approach to lifting. Oh, how altruistic.
