Ziomax
06-14-2008, 01:16 PM
A friend and I have been back in working out for about 5 months. I am 35 and he is 33. The past 8 weeks we have been doing the Bill Star intermediate 5x5 workout. Since we started our strength has increase quite a bit. I know eventually we are suppose to hit a point where we will not be able to increase the weight. We have not reached that point yet. The only problem we both are noticing is that our inner elbows are starting to have a little pain in them. I did some research and found that it could be that our muscles are increasing in strength faster than our tendons in that area can keep up.
We just took a week off from working out as we probably should have done sooner because we have not missed a week in 5 months. Even after a week off I still fill the tenderness a little bit in the inner elbows. It does not affect the amount of weight yet. Mainly it is irritating and I would hate to cause future problems. I was wondering if maybe we should re check our 5 rep max and start from the beginning again. My theory behind this is that for about a month we would be working with lighter weight as we work back up to the 5 rep max. With the Bill Star 5x5 plan you get back to your 5 rep max in 4 weeks. I was thinking this would take some of the load off for about a month.
Just curious what others thoughts are about this ???
We just took a week off from working out as we probably should have done sooner because we have not missed a week in 5 months. Even after a week off I still fill the tenderness a little bit in the inner elbows. It does not affect the amount of weight yet. Mainly it is irritating and I would hate to cause future problems. I was wondering if maybe we should re check our 5 rep max and start from the beginning again. My theory behind this is that for about a month we would be working with lighter weight as we work back up to the 5 rep max. With the Bill Star 5x5 plan you get back to your 5 rep max in 4 weeks. I was thinking this would take some of the load off for about a month.
Just curious what others thoughts are about this ???