Need Advice on an injury

[Bolvangar]

I've been going to the gym about 6 months now. Anyways, all of a sudden I've been getting this pain in my right forearm. It's really weird, when I do exercises such as preacher curls, or whatever you want to call them, it will not hurt me when I'm actually lifting, but when I put the weight down, and i'm not using the muscle anymore it hurts like a mother for about a minute or so.
I was talking to my friend tonight, which I goto the gym with sometimes, he was telling me he is getting the exact same kind of pains in his wrist.

Anyone know what this is, and what I can do about it?

Thanks!
Chris

Edit: forgot to mention, if you touch my arm in the right place, it will hurt as well, but as long as there is no weight being applied to my arm, it's fine throughout the day.
Edit 2: I am using a ez bar allready while doing curls, not a straight bar.

 

[StageLeft]

I used to have the same thing. The way I stopped it is by never doing barbell curls anymore. I find that the ez bar (used doing preachers, for instance) is good on them and no problems, but it got to the point where heavy barbell curls were destroying my wrists. I'd recommend stopping the excercises that are hurting it or trying them a new way. Make sure that your wrists are perfectly flat, and not bent (ie palm is not too far forward or too far back, so that you can make a straight line across the wrist), but if that doesn't work just try different excercises.
Dumbells should reduce the pain significantly for biceps (I'm guessing you have this pain probably only with bicep curls?).

You could just cut barbell bicep curls out for a while entirely and do just dumbells, then try and introduce bars slowly, but I have not done heavy barbell curls in years because I just can't.

 

[ajpa123]

My best advice is that you pulled a muscle in your forearm and that you need to keep doing exercises that don't give you that pain for a couple of weeks to give the pulled muscle time to relax and also swim a lot for the next week or two and strengthen your forearm, don't stress it like you are now..

AJ.

disclaimer: i'm not an expert, just my best guess !

 

[tyler811]

doctor

 

[Gravity]

It's a ligament issue. Your muscles are strong but your ligaments and tendons need you to slow down a bit and prolly do more warm ups so that they can be warm for the excercise. Tendons and ligaments don't have a direct blood supply. They depend on the tissues surrounding them to fill with blood for their nutrients.

Try working with lighter weights and higher reps for a week, then back to heavy. Make sure you get at least 10 minutes of cardio to get the blood flowing before you start then do 2-3 sets of very light weight to warm up. Then slowly pyramid up to a weight that you can get for 6-8 reps or failure then stop.

Your forearms and biceps are relatively small muscles. That's not a personal dig, it's a proportional statement.

I did the same thing the year before last. Now I am curling 120ish on the ez bar for 6 reps and doing seated bicep curls with 65 lb dumbells.

There was a time when it hurt but I worked through it in the above manner, you can too.

Good luck!