Brachialis elbow pain with heavy squats
Ripp,
I’m a 47yo former college baseball player that recently started back lifting weights for strength improvement. I’ve been doing the starting strength NLP for the last 9 weeks with great success. I’ve been very consistently progressing with all lifts as expected.
Currently my 5 rep 3 set numbers are:
Squat - 163 kg
Bench - 105 kg
DL - 158 kg
Press - 65 kg
Unfortunately last week started having significant brachialis elbow pain (Only left elbow)with squatting. I have pretty poor shoulder mobility so started off with a pretty wide grip. In trying my first attempt at 108 on bench after a heavy squat I had to rack the weight after 3 reps but more from the elbow pain. I have tried to change my grip, chalk the bar/my back, widen my grip, lean over more, lean over less, but still killing my other lifts after squats. I have even thought of using one of the cheater bars to take the pressure off of it for my heavy sets. I don’t want to stop squatting but the elbow pain is killing me. I even went today with doing my upper body first so wouldn’t be as painful. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Thad Carnine