Tennis elbow after doing chin-ups?

[JEDI]

started doing chin-ups again after 2 yrs.

did 3 sets of 2 (yes, 6 total) each day for the past 2 days.

today, my right elbow hurts a little.

coincedence???

 

[Koing]

Did you warm up before doing the chin ups?

Koing

 

[JEDI]

Did you warm up before doing the chin ups?

Koing

er.. no. didnt even know there were warm ups for chin ups.

how to u warm up?

 

[Koing]

er.. no. didnt even know there were warm ups for chin ups.

how to u warm up?

Did you warm up before training at all or you did, but not just before chin ups?

I'd do some bicep curls/ press ups before going chin ups if you can only do 2 at a time. The loads will be lighter and you will get some warming up before you load yourself up on the chin ups.

I hang up on the bar for a bit moving around to warm up my shoulders just a bit.

Koing

 

[Phanuel]

Yeah, do some light weight curl -> OHP before you do pull ups as a warm up.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Which portion of your arm hurts? Could be a lot of different muscle strains, but as Koing said, you should be warming up before doing something you can only do 3 reps of. It's not a diss on you, but if you think about if you had to do a 3 rep max squat, you'd do some warm-up sets to get there.

 

[bononos]

er.. no. didnt even know there were warm ups for chin ups.

how to u warm up?

Standing inverted rows, don't have to be perpendicular to the floor, just to get the blood flowing.

Chin ups palm down aggravated my bad tennis elbow (came from typing) which took 4-6 months to heal up. I had to do them palm up and cut down on the reps.