WAG Pain after bars

[lisiflex]

Hello,

I know, this board won't give me medical advice. But I have been to 2 specialist and they don't know an answer. Maybe someone has experiences here!

I usually do floor and very little bar work.

When I do handstands, push-ups or something, it's fine. But when I work on bars my arms start to hurt, even if I just do some minutes.

When I do hip circles, underswings and kips my arms feel like all there tendons, muscles and ligaments get super "pulled". After that the inner and down side of my upper arm has flare ups which kind of give me a stabbing, stinging pain, but it show no swelling and is not painful to touch!

What could that be? Maybe I grab the bar too tight??

It also happens when I do too many pull-ups!

 

[iwannacoach]

It sounds like a "walk before you run problem." you can create enough swing to really stress your body from head to toe. Gymnasts who work bars daily don't notice those stresses until they're swinging some big time skills. That's because they've worked up to it over a span of years after starting out from scratch.

Spend some time doing the most basic bar work every time you're in the gym. Include very small swings to gradually condition your body for bar swings. If you still have pain you should figure out what part of your limited work is causing the problem. Do this through the process of elimination by taking a skill out of your work set. If the pain stops then you got it figured out. If you still have pain take another skill away, and keep doing that until you have no pain. Work at that level for a month and then try adding one skill at a time to your work set.

If that doesn't work then you gotta go see the doctor.