Managing Elbow Pain Caused By Weight Training

In this video, Maryke explains why you can develop pain on the inside (golfer's elbow) or outside (tennis elbow) of your elbow from weight training or CrossFit. She also discusses how you can adapt your training to allow it to recover.

👉 You can use a strap around your forearm to relieve the pressure on the painful tendon in your elbow - they work for golfer's (inside) elbow as well as tennis (outside) elbow. Some options:

Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:00 Acute overload vs. chronic overload
00:01:57 How to prevent tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow
00:03:16 Treatment of tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow
00:05:44 How we can help

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👉 You can use a strap around your forearm to relieve the pressure on the painful tendon in your elbow - they work for golfer's (inside) elbow as well as tennis (outside) elbow. Some options:
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[meiznz]

This is a mistake I made today, I immediately jumped on too many reps too quickly. Just as I lay down and laid my elbow on my stomach I felt a sharp pain. Thank you for this advice I'll be taking a rest tomorrow and plan out my routine

[aidanivesdavis]

This is such an excellent channel. I'm trapped in a youtube "broscience" bubble, filled with terrible advice about how to deal with weightlifting injuries. A lot of the advice is stuff like "doing sets of 50-100 reps to increase blood flow to help the tendon heal". Thanks to your channel, I now understand that that's ridiculous; you're not helping the tendon heal by doing MORE exercise with it! Just avoid doing the things that make it hurt, progress slowly, and that's all you can really do on your own! A lot of us just don't want to swallow the hard pill that healing can take a long time and there's not much you can do to speed that up other than avoiding hurting it more. Thank you!

[bt]

This channel is SO good. Thank you. I was not resting enough. Doh.

[useless]

Man i got injured again it's so frustrating, i start to believe that genetically i'm just prone to it... sucks. It's funny that everyone seems to have a different opinion on how to treat golfer's ellbow. But I think u make the most sense by saying that it needs rest and time to repair itsself and not additional exercise.

[Harry_]

I was really overdoing it. Thanks for sharing your expertise!👏👏

[TKFOH]

I've been dealing with what I believe to be tennis elbow for probably about 2 months now. I believe it was caused by overloading triceps on lying dumbbell presses (skull crushers), combined with reverse curls. Anyhow, I knew the next day I had a problem, as I could barely pick up my phone at work. I cut way back lifting initially, but then we had two massive snowfalls, in which I had no choice but to shovel a ton of snow. Neither of those helped me out. I've tried to do a couple workouts in the past month or so, which typically there's not any extra pain during, but the next day.

For the time being, I'm staying away from weightlifting entirely, and just focusing on cardio workouts. Unfortunately, little things like putting on and taking off my coat, or opening doors, or washing my hands, or typing, are all aggravating the pain. All of these seemingly mundane things cause more pain, irritation, and aggravation, then actually lifting weights. I'm getting pretty frustrated at this point, as these things are much harder to avoid than lifting. In addition, things like doing laundry, dishes, getting groceries, etc. I've tried/done a number of stretches, exercises recommended by physical therapists, some of which provide temporary relief. I've also been wearing a brace, quite a bit, as it's about the only thing that consistently provides relief.

[myfirstrodeo]

Thank you. My is golfer and for 5 months I did well but my mistake was adding an additional arm day behind another which gave me no rest day before my next session. I knew better but I didn’t think nothing would happen. Now im a week 1/2 behind but it’s worth to heal. I’ll give it another week or so then I’ll get back to it with lighter weights. Thanks for this. It helped.

[loganlogan]

i got golfers elbow from gym weights and im doing that for 14 years and i didnt have that problem. When i started pull ups and incline curls it started slowly with pain on left and right elbow. I got that pain for 2 years now but its slowly going away because i stoped with pull ups and incline curls, for the hammer curls i got no problem doing it or revers curl. I still got pain on left elbow but on right not that much. Lucky that i dont have that pain all day but if i make that move like incline curl its starts and goes away... Its hard to quit gym for a month or more.

[santeewhatsa]

Thank you very much. I had an elbow injury and going back to the gym I pushed my arms too hard and had an acute overload problem with my tendon, so now I know what to do! <3

[upaharjungshah]

I got elbow pain after my workouts and it's been preventing me from making progress. I've tried changing up my workouts, but it hasn't helped much. However, I found some really useful information that gave me a better idea of what's causing the pain and how I can start dealing with it.

[heidirexin]

Mine manifested on both sides when, after months of hanging and eventually starting to pull myself up very slightly, I decided to attempt a negative pull-up, and it felt like I absolutely fried the insides of both elbows on the way down. So frustrating. Thank you much for this video.

[Kingmagiccc]

Literally the first person to make sense of my bilateral elbow tendinitis !!

[hirawstraedge]

it appears to be the only video that makes sense, now I kow why doing all the stretching and rolling out made it worst.

[MelUZ]

Loved this video! It is just what I needed to know, 4 days ago I injured my elbow at the gym and the pain hasn’t really stopped, I get a sharp pain at times and I thought stretching it everyday would ease the pain, and how wrong I was, now I know it is actually marking it worse! I was just about to go to the gym again with my elbow still hurting, but after this video I’ll actually give it a rest for more time, Thank you so much and you got a new sub!

[Chris-bhbn]

Started adding towels to imorove my grip strength. Feel it inside my elbow, only sore during a lift. Great advice, ill take a week and start back with 1/3 of my pulling volume

[rhythmicstu]

Excellent - I am experiencing discomfort on my inner elbow, and this helped me to understand I have Golfers elbow. I am doing Push (triceps) day then Pull day (biceps), so probably not giving my arms enough time to recover. I will try Push, Legs, Pull and use a strap to see how it goes! Thank you for making this video - subbed!

[puncht]

25 years in a mechanic shop, with a heavy impact wrench all day, shocking your arm, did mine.

[XabzintheNBAGuru]

I just taped it and so far it's proven to be effective

[n]

I have been weight training since August and slowly ramping up, but I think I jumped to full-weight pullups too soon as after a couple weeks of pullups I suddenly could barely do barbell curls and had constant tension/pain in both the outside and inside of my forearms around my elbows. I had a feeling the answer to make it go away was going to be "rest it" but I really hoped there would be some magic exercise I could do lol. Anyway, thank you for the sage advice. I'll stick to "push" exercises and take a break from pull exercises until they start to feel better and then slowly ramp back up.