Elbow Issues

I had a lot of tendinitis problems in my left elbow for quite a while. I'm sure you remember if you've been following me the whole time. But, we figured out that I was hyper-extending my elbows from being double-jointed, and once I corrected that on a lot of my exercises, the problem has diminished greatly.

Now my body has felt the need to aggravate the right elbow. Not sure what the problem is. When Jack tried to extend my arm all the way on Thursday at massage it hurt pretty badly, so we're thinking I'm hyper-extending again. But, I can't really think of anything that I'd be hyper-extending on, except bench. But, I have to lock out on bench...so, not sure there's really a solution.

It hurt pretty good today...mostly on top. It's not underneath like the left arm. Very odd. It took me a set to get situated on a couple of exercises, but, I seemed to do pretty well and was able to get a groove through the pain after my first sets. It's not that bad....pain sounds like such a horrible word. It would shock me at first set, b/c it's a sharp, prickly feeling...but once I knew what it was going to feel like, it wasn't that bad. We'll keep working at it, I'm sure it'll go away like the left arm.

Things went well today. Pretty over-stimulating for my taste...the gym was jam-packed with people (or so it seemed...it could be there were just a few very loud people). But it still went very well. I felt very good (aside from the elbow thing), and Brian said I looked strong.

Bench with 2 second pauses - Warmup 95 lbs., 7. Then, 140 lbs., sets of 3. I don't know how many sets...close to 9 I think. I felt like I was more explosive off my chest than I used to be. Brian said I looked strong. I did mis-groove one set, and one rep of another set. But other than that I did well.
Close-Grip off pins - Started with 135 lbs., for 5 and worked up to 175 lbs., for 5. I was in the rack for this one and Brian set the pins above my chest, so I wasn't coming down all the way. Just trying to build my tricep strength at the top. And he was not wanting to overload me because I have to bench on Monday again.
Tricep Pushdowns - 80 lbs., 90 lbs., 100 lbs., 12. 100 lbs., 10...He helped me with, at least, the last two of the last set...I don't know if he was helping me on others or not.
Lateral Raises - 15 lbs., 3 sets of 12.
Blackburns - 5 lbs., 2 sets of 15.
Reach-Ups on that half round thing - 3 sets, one of 10 and two of 12.

Stretching :-)