elbow

Elbow injuries are relatively common in bodybuilding due to the repetitive and often heavy lifting involved in many exercises. To reduce the risk of elbow injuries in bodybuilding, you can follow these guidelines: 1. Warm-Up: Always start your workout with a proper warm-up. Engage in light...

Bottom Line Up Front 1. Want a prominent bicep peak and arm circumference? You can't ignore the brachialis. 2. The brachialis is responsible for making the biceps appear taller. It quite literally pushes the biceps up. 3. Maximize brachialis recruitment by doing elbow flexion with a neutral or...

Form Fixes Everything, How to Correctly Master the Tricep Pulldown Form Fixes Everything, How to Correctly Master the Tricep Pulldown One popular workout you may have heard of is the tricep pulldown. It is conventionally done at a cable system to isolate and work triceps efficiently and...

When your arm workout consists of only a few biceps curls and shoulder presses, it can quickly become monotonous. Plus, you're probably not getting the outcomes you want. Instead, try a few underappreciated workouts that can sculpt your arms in no time. Try these five moves during your next...

In recent years, direct arm training has declined in popularity with the rise of functional training. While you should still be focused on compound lifts and other functional training, you can still incorporate some direct arm training into your program. We all love to have big guns, and the...

Before we get into the nitty gritty of training any muscle group, it’s always important to review the anatomy of the muscle group as well as any agonist muscle groups. - The biceps, brachialis, and brachioradialis are the primary elbow flexors. The biceps are the only muscle that crosses both...

Shoulder Health Sunday? Can this be a thing? . Today we are going to go over one of many exercises that I started performing that took my shoulder pain from “I can’t even look at a barbell without it hurting” back to benching every other day. Reducing pain with a concentration on the eccentric...

Just introducing myself. Finally had surgery to correct an elbow issue that's had me out of the gym for 2 years. Totally honest, the board I was on that had my favorite source has disappeared during that time, and I'm looking all over the place trying to find him again lol. I'm sure it's against...

BICEP CURL VARIATIONS . 📚This series focuses on the biceps brachii and brachialis. The biceps (long and short head) work to bent at the elbow joint, rotate thumb outward at shoulder joint, and raise arm at shoulder joint in a front raise fashion. The brachialis is known as the “Work horse of the...

So I have the worst tendons. Tendonitis in my feet, elbows and shoulders. Ongoing problems for years which I just have been living with... Cortisone shots in my feet have helped a little. . Elbow pain is tolerable but the shoulder tendonitis is the worst because it really gets in the way of my...

Some people have a hard time "feeling" their lats during things like pull-ups and pulldowns. One cue that often helps is to think about pulling with your elbows rather than your hands. This helps localize the intention of the movement to the shoulder joint, rather than the elbow. Think about...

When doing full body splits, it’s important to perform lower body exercises before upper body exercises. We see evidence of this importance in studies showing that performing upper body exercises to fatigue can impair your ability to maximally activate lower body muscles. This is likely evidence...

Liz Roscher,Yahoo Sports•September 16, 2019 The Pittsburgh Steelers will have to endure the rest the NFL season without their starting quarterback, because Ben Roethlisberger is done for the year. After sustaining a non-contact injury to his right elbow during Sunday’s game against the Seattle...

Want Horse Shoe Triceps? . I can remember years ago wishing that outer portion of my triceps would just show up. It used to be nonexistent even at extremely low levels of body fat. . Years later and a bit of science to back it up I have a pretty decent answer. Research seems to show that the...

I tore my common tendon on inside of elbow in half and broke some of the bone off with it. Had surgery with metal cables and anchors to put it back together. What's your opinions on the best thing to take to help things along?

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General elbow pain is often associated with an imbalance between the forearm flexors and extensors. In most cases (but not all), the forearm flexor is in a state of overuse because of repeated "palm towards elbow" patterns, and you end up with an inflamed elbow tendon. <!-- IMAGE --> <!--...

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Did you know that different parts of a muscle are controlled by different nerves? The biceps has a long and a short head. Nerve cells connected to the long head's outer (lateral) part are activated during elbow flexion, while nerve cells connected to the inner (medial) part are activated by...

ebtofficial For those of you who don't know, I completely ruptured my bicep tendon doing preacher curls. Since then, watching anyone really push themselves on preacher curls makes me cringe and I have to look away. It is common for people to go very heavy. You will notice they are unable to...