My arm wanted to kill me this morning

[Unfocused]

With pain.

I experienced the same scenario about 2 weeks ago BTW. I wake up in the early morning (today it was ~7am; and it's my holidays, I would still sleep for at least 2.5 hours) and my left arm hurts like hell in this irregular pulsating way. The pain comes from the lower bicep area (close to where the forearm begins) and from within the arm, so rubbing the area doesn't help. It doesn't hurt as if I was sleeping on the arm and prevented blood from flowing in, plus that would quickly go away if that was the case.

It's not excruciating pain, but it still hurts enough to wake me up and prevent me from falling asleep again as well as lying still in bed, since I'm constantly twitching and rolling around.

I should note, that I started going to the gym regularily, 3 times a week, over 2 months ago, but I only excersise the bicep once a week and haven't had any (other) indication of straining it too much.

So now I'm sitting here, 1.5 hours after getting up from bed, and the arm is a bit sore, but the pain is gone. What's up with that?

Diagnosis please, helplife2.net.

 

[Murray]

"I am not a doctor!"

 

[tesher06]

So you answered your own question. Your sore from working out. It will go away just work out your biceps more.

 

[VirusType2]

I've been lifting weights off and on for 20 years. You should work the opposite muscle group in the same workout session. For example, if you do your biceps, then make sure you work out your triceps too.

I remember reading that the bicep is the easiest muscle to overwork or something like that. Once a week isn't too often, but make sure you don't do any more than 3 sets.

Another thing to keep in mind is that a quick jerking motion makes it easy to injure yourself. You want to keep everything smooth.

The best way to do your biceps is to rest your elbow on a bench so that your bicep is doing the entire workout. You might find you will have to use much less weight. If so, that is proof that you weren't doing it right before.

 

[Unfocused]

So you answered your own question. Your sore from working out. It will go away just work out your biceps more.

I wouldn't be making this thread if it felt like regular muscle pain from working out, now would I?

Regular muscle pain occurs when you move and is generally kind of a "background" pain. This pain was variable, pulsating, as if associated with blood flow.

Also it doesn't come and go like that.

I've been lifting weights off and on for 20 years. You should work the opposite muscle group in the same workout session. For example, if you do your biceps, then make sure you work out your triceps too.

I remember reading that the bicep is the easiest muscle to overwork or something like that. Once a week isn't too often, but make sure you don't do any more than 3 sets.

Another thing to keep in mind is that a quick jerking motion makes it easy to injure yourself. You want to keep everything smooth.

The best way to do your biceps is to rest your elbow on a bench so that your bicep is doing the entire workout. You might find you will have to use much less weight. If so, that is proof that you weren't doing it right before.

When I started going to the gym I asked the trainer there to tell me what to do and he was very helpful, so I know the basic rules, but thanks.

However, I read somewhere that it's best to work a small and a large muscle group each session. Anyway the trainer set up my routine like this:

Day 1: biceps - chest
Day 2: back - belly
Day 3: triceps - shoulders

4 sets each (12-10-8-6 repetitions within, while increasing the weight), 3-4 different excersises per muscle group. Takes me around 1.5 hour per session (within which I work out 2 muscle groups).

Gave me no problems so far, apart from a bit of pain in my forearms when I'm lifting something and that weird pain that's the topic of this thread.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Well it is possible you've over strained or over exerted something around the tricep, and any movement around it agitates it. Have you had any previous injuries in that arm before in your life? Scar tissue can be painful when muscle builds up around it I've heard.

Otherwise...based on the thread title it most certainly could be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome

 

[Unfocused]

I wanted to find a gif of Ash from Evil Dead cutting his hand off with a chainsaw myself, but I couldn't. :|

 

[Raziaar]

I completely sympathize with your arm pains Unfocused, even though I do not entirely know what it might be other than possibly some sort of exercise injury.

I suffer from frequent excruciating arm pain myself, which is why I can understand how shitty it is!

 

[Danimal]

I have the same pain in my arm or leg from time to time.

That is all the help you'll get out of me!

 

[VirusType2]

I wouldn't be making this thread if it felt like regular muscle pain from working out, now would I?

Regular muscle pain occurs when you move and is generally kind of a "background" pain. This pain was variable, pulsating, as if associated with blood flow.

Also it doesn't come and go like that.




When I started going to the gym I asked the trainer there to tell me what to do and he was very helpful, so I know the basic rules, but thanks.

However, I read somewhere that it's best to work a small and a large muscle group each session. Anyway the trainer set up my routine like this:

Day 1: biceps - chest
Day 2: back - belly
Day 3: triceps - shoulders

4 sets each (12-10-8-6 repetitions within, while increasing the weight), 3-4 different excersises per muscle group. Takes me around 1.5 hour per session (within which I work out 2 muscle groups).

Gave me no problems so far, apart from a bit of pain in my forearms when I'm lifting something and that weird pain that's the topic of this thread.

He's wrong. One of my many brothers is a trainer and he doesn't have all that much training himself - a couple of months worth.

Do not do 4 sets on your biceps. Besides, other workouts (like bench press or push-ups, shoulder press - any movement like that) will be hitting the biceps too. So you are effectively doing 8-12 sets that work out your biceps, one of the smallest muscle groups in the body. If you had been working out for over 10 years consistently, then it might not be a problem.

Anyway, it doesn't necessarily have to be a muscle pain. Regardless, to reduce swelling and pain you take Ibuprofen. (Advil)

You can permanently injure yourself from lifting weights, so keep that in mind.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

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