Bicep Tendon conditioning and prehab

[Joshua Naterman]

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This is just a beginner clinic, but we are always getting more people so it is going to be very useful. This is also perfect for those of us getting off the injured list.

I don't talk about muscle balance here, I am only referring to the biceps tendon itself.

[Kyle Courville]

Thanks for this really great video; you are always very generous with your time. It looks as if your body has changed completely. Is this from the WODs? I'll be doing this in a few months, and hopefully I'll be doing the WODs in about 5-7 months.

[Joshua Naterman]

I am about 95% sure it's from the WODs. I am really getting in great shape again! The few single sets of lifts that I do in my warm up are very basic and do not cause hardly any muscle damage or remodeling, they are there to teach my nervous system the skill of strength. I know, that's a weird concept to many people, but much of our strength comes from the nervous system and not the muscle tissue itself. The tissue is still important, but for relative strength (meaning pound for pound strength) the nervous system is the key.

[seven]

thanks for all info, you are great friend

I worked on "push-up finger back static hold" and y my tendons worked hard, very hard, I felt my tendons could break.

the exercise is amazing: specific for the zone, easy execution and control, efective

:?: :?: one cuestion, ¿when should I do the exercise?, ¿in pre-hab before WOD & FSP/warm-up, or part of FSP/warm-up, or pre-hab after WOD.....?

thanks for share your knowledge

see you

[Simon Grégoire]

Great video! Love the way it sums up some of your earlier post on the subject!

I'm really impressed with your german hang! I didn't expect you to be able to drop that low seeing you're quite the bulky type! Btw, are you supposed to keep your arm shoulder width or wider when doing it?

[Joshua Naterman]

You know, ideally you can do it shoulder width. I'm pretty close to having my upper body in line with my arms at shoulder width these days, but being a few inches wider makes a big difference so I just stay there and let my body adapt there. Every so often I move my hands a little closer. That's on a bar, on the rings there's not much avoiding the arms being pulled closely together lol! That makes it a little harder on the rings at first, I think.

[Ivan Pellejero]

I started doing german hangs in the pre reqs just because my shoulders where a little stiff and obviously I wasn't ready for the complete minute of it because it's been two weeks since I started feeling a glorious pain in the front of my elbow, a little in the tendon but also arround it in the brachialis and even into the forearm, I can do BAS and even FL and Ls, but forget the BL and planche. Is the softer planche lean a good tool to clear this out or I will need to be zen-patient with it?

[Nic Branson]

Always patience. Light mobility work and self massage. Stressing irritated tendons is rarely a good idea. If the lean causes you NO pain then it might help, but do a quarter of what you think you can. You're just after blood flow and gentle stimulation.

[Ivan Pellejero]

Thanks, the exitement of improvement always makes me forget the limits