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Saw an ortho to make sure there were no stress fractures stuff like that. I was told I have lateral & medial epicondylitis in both elbows. She is a good doc and non invasive when it comes to injuries and she tells it how it is. Told me it will get better but I may need to lay off the weights a little bit. She made me an appt with a physio.
I eat rice for for breakfast, lunch, dinner, before bed, post wo. I tried elbow sleeves, the tennis & golfers elbow bands with the pads on them, elastic therapeutic tape. Pretty much no miracles and I cannot say I am surprised. BTW I kept the receipts to all of those products and got my money back.
So now am just sticking with what I have been doing all along and that is rice and using my preferred muscle cream and doing my 30 mins of stretches. I just started doing self acupressure aka thumb walking. For the last 15 wks I have been doing 5x5 SL I'd pick the absolute heaviest weight I could do and do it 5 times for 5 sets. I gained awesome strength and hard muscles.
Muscles seem to get stronger quicker than ligaments and tendons. So to switch things up and work on getting the ligaments and tendons to catch up I am going to put more tension time on my muscles and switch to a more hypertrophic routine. Instead of 80%-90% 1RM 5x5 switch to 65%-75% 1RM 3x10 with a little longer rest time btwn sessions. Maybe I will build some more mass to go along with my new strength. I did gain quite a bit doing 3x10 back in the day.
Thought I would share. It's been a while. Comments, suggestions, inquires about Ben the Cow, you know what to do.
I eat rice for for breakfast, lunch, dinner, before bed, post wo. I tried elbow sleeves, the tennis & golfers elbow bands with the pads on them, elastic therapeutic tape. Pretty much no miracles and I cannot say I am surprised. BTW I kept the receipts to all of those products and got my money back.
So now am just sticking with what I have been doing all along and that is rice and using my preferred muscle cream and doing my 30 mins of stretches. I just started doing self acupressure aka thumb walking. For the last 15 wks I have been doing 5x5 SL I'd pick the absolute heaviest weight I could do and do it 5 times for 5 sets. I gained awesome strength and hard muscles.
Muscles seem to get stronger quicker than ligaments and tendons. So to switch things up and work on getting the ligaments and tendons to catch up I am going to put more tension time on my muscles and switch to a more hypertrophic routine. Instead of 80%-90% 1RM 5x5 switch to 65%-75% 1RM 3x10 with a little longer rest time btwn sessions. Maybe I will build some more mass to go along with my new strength. I did gain quite a bit doing 3x10 back in the day.
Thought I would share. It's been a while. Comments, suggestions, inquires about Ben the Cow, you know what to do.
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