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Originally Posted by
David McClelland
Has anyone ever heard of "popping" outside of the elbow? It's mostly not audible, but very clearly felt. Imagine a rubber band around the middle of your elbow that reaches a point while you're bending it, until it pops around the outside bone. It's not painful, but it's anywhere from mildly uncomfortable to very uncomfortable with working weight.
I only feel it during pressing movements with weight above barbell weight, never just straightening my arm out with no load.
I've been dealing with this most of my life and only found I could avoid it if I did extremely light weights with extremely light reps, working up and up until I could reach a working weight. When I found SS and did NLP 2 yrs ago, the programming for warm ups was the first time I'd seen anything spelled out like that, and seemed downright therapeutic. I never had the popping all the way up to almost a 150 lb press and 210 lb bench press.
Yet, after a few months on SS and working with that much weight without a problem, it came back because I made the mistake one night of not starting the press with just the barbell and instead put a 10 lb plate on each side. Once it came back there was nothing I could do to stop it and it was like that until I stopped working out. I hadn't continued long enough for it to possibly go away or get really uncomfortable.
Fast forward 2 yrs later and I just started NLP again last night. I did 2 warm ups with the barbell x 5 reps just fine, then proceeded with 10 lb plates on each side, not unlike how I started my last NLP (log book FTW). Popping in elbow has returned. Now, it could go away and I'm hoping it does. But just in case it doesn't, it's only going to get worse with heavier weights until I might have to stop, and I don't want to have to stop this again.
I've been on the internet researching it and ran across "Ulnar Nerve Subluxation", but that seems to be only on the inside elbow (medial epicondyle)? Anyone know of anything that does this on the outside? I can live with discomfort in the name of strength, but if this persists into doing heavy weight again I don't want to damage something (especially a nerve), that's just stupid.