strength and muscle gains to quickly ????? OUCH

[ThirdEye]

I get that pain every now and then, too. Release the bar slowly after your set. Warm up your forearms before doing your biceps workout. Stay away from the cambered bar preacher curls. Use dumbells for preacher curls. It helped me a lot when I started using the straight bar instead of the cambered for standing barbell curls. Keep your wrists slightly bent outward(toward the floor) when doing curls. This will keep some tension off your forearms. And lastly, hold the bar in the base of your hand making sure the weight is not supported by your fingers.

 

[out of control]

Been there and dealt with this problem. Yes definitely use an EZ bar it will help. Straight barbell kills mine. Hammer curls will help as will behind the head curls on the cable machine (that you use for lat pulldowns) these blast the peaks in your bis. Whatever you do don't push it because it'll get so bad you won't be doing anything. A doc once told me wet heat in the evening for half an hour every day will help then throw in some ultrasound therapy and you'll be back in the game. I manage to keep mine in check and still go HEAVY

 

[jubei]

Start doing dumbells for a while. I had the exact same problem to be honest. Now I can do preachers again because I gave it time to heal.

 

[boogersnax]

What I found that helps me is doing an exercise called "offset dumbbell twist curl." Take a dumbbell in each hand, slide you hands up the handles to where the thumb side of you hand is against the plates. This offsets the weight toward the rear. You can be seated or standing, start with the dumbbells handing naturally at you side, then curlling the weight up into a supinated position at the top of the curl. This causes the forearms to work harder twisting the offset dumbbell. Alternate arms during this exercise. The credit goes to Charles Poliquin for this one. Add hammer curls and you will have a good forearm workout. BTW, I have carpal tunnel in one hand and this exercise has about done away with the problem. Good Luck.

 

[supertech69]

I had the same problem over a year ago & it lasted for a good 6 months. I took celebrex (anti-inflamatory) for a while & wore forearm straps used for tennis elbow, I had it on the opposite side of the arm which is known as golfers elbow. After taking it easy on them for a while & getting to the point where it no longer hurt to curl I started strengthening my forearms & haven't had the problem since. I made a home made forearm bar from a couple pieces of electrical conduit & rope. They sell them but, I'm too cheap to buy one & mine works just fine. It's kinda like a bicycle handle & you just roll the weight connected to the rope around the bar using your grip to turn it. It will give you such a good pump in your forearms that you wont be able to grip for hrs.

 

[trinidad]

Can you do them with a cable? If your forearms are getting too much of a pump it could be from you squeezing the bar too tightly. Using a cable you can actually loosen your grip some and still have control of the weight. The position of your hands will also affect the tightness in your forearms. If you put your hands in front of you with palms up and twist the pinky side of your hands up and towards the thumb sides, you will feel an immediate tightness in the forearm so the more your palms face inward the less stretched they'll be. I feel the forearms more with a straight bar than with an EZ curl bar.