Fadi
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Have you ever suffered with a sore and at times annoying elbow pain? Have you been asked the usual questions by fellow bodybuilders? Questions such as: do you do barbell curls mate, and if so, do you use a straight bar or an EZ curl bar? The problem? You might just be looking in the wrong place for the right answers to your elbow problem.
Did you know that the "innocent" looking d/bell side laterals can actually fry your elbow's tendon? If not, great, please don't go attempting something different with that exercise just to find out what I'm talking about. And what could that "different" something be I hear you ask. How about reaching for a heavier d/bell than your elbow tendon is ready for and could tolerate? When your arm is extended to your side whilst under load, your side deltoids (the intended/targeted muscle of choice here), is not the only muscle coming to the party no. Your whole arm flexors/extensors (forearm) are also invited so as to stabilise your arm and help you keep a firm hold onto that d/bell, or else it'll just drop like a dead d/bell would into the arms of gravity below.
![Far%20and%20Wide%204.jpg Far%20and%20Wide%204.jpg](https://ausbb.com/data/attachments/9/9716-8abcd53ef5383ccb151c023efea0f0b9.jpg)
No, you don't believe me? Then you must be one of the wise bodybuilders who lift just the right weight and perform plenty of repetitions with it to exhaust your side delts before anything else gives way, bravo! If on the other hand you do feel some pain in that elbow tendon (tennis elbow), may I suggest you lighten up on your d/bells; stop doing super strict nearly straight arms raises, slow, and/or isometric holds (a la gymnasts' roman rings crucifix movement), and stop looking and / or blaming the straight bar barbell curls for something it had nothing to do with.
![iron-cross2.jpg iron-cross2.jpg](https://ausbb.com/data/attachments/9/9717-dcdf7c06d0273f7665c518da030edeb7.jpg)
Above I chose the b/bell curls and side laterals, I could very well have chosen some other unrelated exercise that at times cause us to look in the wrong direction for the right answers. Have you got any exercises you'd like to share with Ausbb, in order for us all to increase our knowledge a bit please? Thank you for your time.
![franco-curl-e1412379454726.jpg franco-curl-e1412379454726.jpg](https://ausbb.com/data/attachments/9/9718-ab75447f216da50a2f52c99486e673fd.jpg)
Did you know that the "innocent" looking d/bell side laterals can actually fry your elbow's tendon? If not, great, please don't go attempting something different with that exercise just to find out what I'm talking about. And what could that "different" something be I hear you ask. How about reaching for a heavier d/bell than your elbow tendon is ready for and could tolerate? When your arm is extended to your side whilst under load, your side deltoids (the intended/targeted muscle of choice here), is not the only muscle coming to the party no. Your whole arm flexors/extensors (forearm) are also invited so as to stabilise your arm and help you keep a firm hold onto that d/bell, or else it'll just drop like a dead d/bell would into the arms of gravity below.
![Far%20and%20Wide%204.jpg Far%20and%20Wide%204.jpg](https://ausbb.com/data/attachments/9/9716-8abcd53ef5383ccb151c023efea0f0b9.jpg)
No, you don't believe me? Then you must be one of the wise bodybuilders who lift just the right weight and perform plenty of repetitions with it to exhaust your side delts before anything else gives way, bravo! If on the other hand you do feel some pain in that elbow tendon (tennis elbow), may I suggest you lighten up on your d/bells; stop doing super strict nearly straight arms raises, slow, and/or isometric holds (a la gymnasts' roman rings crucifix movement), and stop looking and / or blaming the straight bar barbell curls for something it had nothing to do with.
![iron-cross2.jpg iron-cross2.jpg](https://ausbb.com/data/attachments/9/9717-dcdf7c06d0273f7665c518da030edeb7.jpg)
Above I chose the b/bell curls and side laterals, I could very well have chosen some other unrelated exercise that at times cause us to look in the wrong direction for the right answers. Have you got any exercises you'd like to share with Ausbb, in order for us all to increase our knowledge a bit please? Thank you for your time.
![franco-curl-e1412379454726.jpg franco-curl-e1412379454726.jpg](https://ausbb.com/data/attachments/9/9718-ab75447f216da50a2f52c99486e673fd.jpg)
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