OT workout bros -- reoccurring tricep pain

Does it bother you only when you isolate it or when you do any type of press as well like a bench press or overhead press? Do you feel it more or less if you lay on a bench and do a deep overhead pullover above your chest and then back down extending deep and almost touching the ground?

Hurts when I isolate it. It's always tight, but I'm still fine doing bodyweight exercises/the big lifts. I just don't do weighted dips to avoid messing it up again. I'm pretty sure I was doing a weighted dip when I tore it.

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my triceps are always tight. Any ideas/tips on how to fix this?

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one of those things where rest will only help. Sounds like a slight tear.

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Agree with this. Had an issue with my shoulder, quit lifting a few weeks and did non-weighted rotator cuff exercises and it healed itself.

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shoulder, quit lifting a few weeks and did non-weighted rotator cuff exercises and it healed itself.

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yep i was having rotator cuff probs. My bud is a doctor and i asked him about it. He said probably slight tear. And basically rest it and dont do anything that is painful. So i did. Took me about a month but if finally went away (after a year of problems). I still worked out, i just didnt do anything that put stress on that shoulder. Now i do NO barbell exercises on the bench and do all mine with dumbells, shoulder is 100x better.

Just rest it a while, it seems as though the rest helped. So rest it some more. Doesnt mean you cant work out, just dont out stress on that tricep and stop any exercise that it hurts when you do it. You could injure it worse.

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That looks like a solid stretch. I've been doing something similar with a foam roller

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That's what I was thinking, some type of trigger point therapy to see if you could get it to release. If that doesn't work after a few wks, then you know you are dealing with something more serious.

welcome to my world. Long story very very short. Ive worked out for 10+ years and never had injuries. Elbow/tricep came about one day and never left. golfers elbow, tennis elbow, no skull crushers blah blah blah. If i bumped my elbow on ANYTHING it would feel like my arm was cut off. After 3 years out of college and at my work desk i noticed both triceps had pain and were tender/knots. They would constantly twitch. All symptoms then spread to my forearms. I stopped all tricep work but was ok for benching and OHP. I went see a doc and my x-ray revealed this in my original elbow that had pain. Bone spur formed from a tight tricep pilling on elbow and then broke. Only real fix is surgery but frick that because they would have to split my tendon.
My friend is a PT. I went to him for 6 weeks. We did needeling, electroshock therapy, and stretches etc...He thinks that i had a vertical tear in my tricep that was unnoticeable to myself and not letting it heal caused all the issues along with working at a computer so much.
Currently i warm up with eccentric motions w/ the rubber bands. I havent done a tricep extension in a year and my pain has all but gone. I recently started doing eccentric extensions with cables up to 15lbs and soon hope to be able to do it normally. Dips on a the machine dont hurt but bodyweight dips cause some issues depending on ROM. Also consistent rolling,stretching and icing the tricep is a huge help. Ive been dealing with this for years so i know all the do's and dont's from doctors and joint specialist

ive had shoulder surgery on my opposite shoulder and that sucks. Not worth it for this at the moment.
Stretches: tricep french stretchand pull with a towel or the tricep extension rope
Mainly warming up is what you want to focus on. Do eccentric tricep extensions with the thinnest rubber band then move up over time. Do extensions with your arms at your sides and the band secured over head and with the band at head height behind you and your arm out front and extend forward.
Push the weight with your opposite hand for the concentric portions (when you would "flex"/extend and then slowly control the resistance, with your injured arm, to the starting position. This eccentric motion should be smooth. when my tricep was tight i couldn't do this smoothly.
Lastly, roll out your tricep on the end of a barbell (the end where the weight sit. this part rolls about the bar itself). Put barbell at shoulder height in the squat rack or incline bench rack and roll tricep forward on back. Roll the shite out of it. you arm needs to be in the bicep flexing position for this.
I also roll it at home along with myofacial release therapy: press on the muscle and find knots and tinder spots then DEEPLY massage them with a lacross ball, your fingers or other tool (round bottom end of permanent marker and my favorite then rolled granite edge of my kitchen bar). Ice after rolling if possible. Roll and stretch throughout the day.

definitely Aids