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Oh yeah I've had this. Still do.
About 3 years ago I was doing preacher curl, really pushing it, and I felt this shooting pain in my forearm right where you describe. I finished out my workout but it REALLY hurt. Being the dumbass that I can sometimes be, I didnt take any time off from the gym at all. This lead me to a having to ice my forearms every night for 3 weeks until I finally broke down and went to the doctor. He said the he thinks I tore my forearms and never gave them time to heal, thus making the injury much worse.
Now, fastforward to today. I had taken about 6 - 8 months off the gym a while back (I started back at the gym hard in august). I still can not do certain types of bicep curls at all, and when I do bicep curls I usually have a lot of pain in my forearms. I find it hurts most for me when I do things like flat bar (olympic bar) curls, spider curls, etc. I end up having to take some odd grips sometimes to do a full curl without forearm pain. Oddly enough my arms are probly my best developed muscle group, but it comes with a good deal of pain sometimes. I dont really know what I can do at this point besides just live with it. I find the pain isnt a problem unless I go really heavy with certain grips. For the most part I just focus on form and trying to do whatever I can to avoid aggrevating the nagging injury too much.
I'm interested to hear what other people think on this topic as I could use some advice myself.
Also of note. This doesnt seem to affect my grip strength since I dont get any pain when doing back exercises and I never use straps. It just seems to be in the curling motion.
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