This is weird. Why does my sternum hurt?

[gettinlarger]

It was sore a little bit after my srt of dips yesterday, but I just shrugged it off. Now, it feels weird. It doesn't like ... hurt, per se, but there's some discomfort. I can feel it when I take a very deep breath. It's about where my heart is, but it's only in my sternum. Any thoughts?

 

[The Red Dragon]

After chest days I have pain in the sternum too, especially if my torso moves in a torsional manner (the bone plate between the 2 sternal pectors). It's more of an aching pain in the bone.

 

[argent]

I stopped doing heavy pullovers years ago b/c of sternum pain. You probably went ALL the way down and got an intense stretch in your pecs and delts. Don't go so far down.

 

[gettinlarger]

You probably went ALL the way down and got an intense stretch in your pecs and delts. Don't go so far down.

Hmm ... sounds logical ...

Thanks fellas.

 

[wildonsquats]

Sometimes i get the same problem if i sleep wrong.. for some reason i can "crack" my sternum the same way you can crack your knuckles. Sounds weird, but it feels like the tendons in my upper chest sometimes cross each other in the wrong way.

 

[PolishHammer1977]

Sometimes i get the same problem if i sleep wrong.. for some reason i can "crack" my sternum the same way you can crack your knuckles. Sounds weird, but it feels like the tendons in my upper chest sometimes cross each other in the wrong way.

Everything pops on me

 

[The Red Dragon]

That's not good.
So far, my knees, shoulders and elbow crack and neck i suppose when I flex it TOO much

 

[natedog]

Try cracking your sternum, by stretching your elbows behind you. It was a little scary the first couple of times (WTF was that!?), but man it relieves that tension like nothing else.

 

[The Red Dragon]

Isn't cracking bad for you?

 

[Hannibal]

Try cracking your sternum, by stretching your elbows behind you. It was a little scary the first couple of times (WTF was that!?), but man it relieves that tension like nothing else.

I do that all the time...like you said, didn't know what the hell it was the first time. Definitely a strange feeling...but it works.

 

[natedog]

Isn't cracking bad for you?

I really don't see how it could be. I've been cracking my knuckles and wrists for 20 years, neck and back for 10, and I don't have any kind of arthritis or other pain/problems from it. My knuckles don't appear to be enlarged or swollen, as one myth seems to suggest would happen...

 

[bigstve12]

My sternum cracks also..i love it! Cracking is not bad for your joints, all your doing is pushing them beyond their normal ROM. All synovial joints have 4mm of joint play, which is like ROM beyond active ROM. I dont know if the sternum is a synovial joint, I tend to think that its not....who knows, it relieves tension in the area so ill keep doing it

 

[RusPA81]

I have got that doing decline presses before. Maybe it is because I rarely do them. I really don't know. I do kind of like though.