To anyone with the knowledge...Are there benefits to doing reverse / eccentric curls to strengthen my flexor tendons alongside my usual climbing or do these exercises only serve to heal injured tendons?If there are, I am guessing it's best not to do them immediately before or after climbing but rather when I'm rested?
After a couple of bouts of golfers elbow physio recommended continuing to do the appropriate (for me the ones in the athlon.com) version as maintenance forever.However I can't fnd any research to back this up so she may have been guessing ??
More helpfully my elbow problems were diagnosed as arising from poor shoulder posture so might be worth getting that looked at.
Quote from: i.munro on September 19, 2011, 01:12:39 pmAfter a couple of bouts of golfers elbow physio recommended continuing to do the appropriate (for me the ones in the athlon.com) version as maintenance forever.However I can't fnd any research to back this up so she may have been guessing ??My take was that the effect the athlon exercise has is to stimulate/aggravate the area to get the body to respond to the injury and cure it rather than strengthening as such in a way that would be useful for injury prevention.
Cheers! Do you do the curls after a session or at another time? And these are to prevent elbow problems rather than rehab with sore elbows?
My take was that the effect the athlon exercise has is to stimulate/aggravate the area to get the body to respond to the injury and cure it rather than strengthening as such in a way that would be useful for injury prevention.
The broom handle with weight on a piece of string and twisting it up and down, is according to my physio the best rehab or injury prevention for both tennis or golfers. The direct of twist depending on which one. He said climbers are so susecptable becuase muscles are functioning most of the time isometrically, and just doing literally 30 secs at the end of a session could save tendontitis developing.Trying to find a link to it..
Thanks for the advice everyone. It seems like it's worth doing curls to help keep it away.Probes, the isometric information is interesting, I've been trying to understand lately why athletes such as rowers and swimmers are able to train safely twice a day with realtively little build up in volume whereas climbers really struggle with this.
mrjonathanr, the injured vs healty thing, I was confused too but I thought it might be possible that the reverse curls heal rather than strengthen, so they'd be pointless to do if the tendon was healed because they'd do nothing. I could read some science about this I expect.