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I love this list. Word about pull-ups. I was doing pullups 3X a week, and I tried not overtrain by a very very gradual increase over months in an Excel-sheet-

I love this list. Word about pull-ups. I was doing pullups 3X a week, and I tried not overtrain by a very very gradual increase over months in an Excel-sheet-level programming, since the pandemic and I got a pull-up bar at home. I was super careful. And yet it happened - it's called Golfer's Elbow and it's technically called medial epicondylitis, and it hella sucks. It lasts many months, it doesn't magically go away if you do nothing, because I think it's due to a muscle imbalance (impossible to confirm that via online research, just anecdotal), and it's very painful. In the mornings I get a stinging elbow pain just by lifting a piece of paper or scratching my head. So careful with the pullups. Your cat cow with wrists flipped sounds very intriguing, I'm going to explore that. It's interesting that Yoga fixed you up. Glad that helped and thank you for sharing.

mtalantikite 6y ago
Absolutely, this is good advice to go easy on the pull ups. You really need to make sure you’re doing a good amount of stretching into the forearms, wrists, and all the way up into the fingers. The cat-cow variation with wrists flipped can help a lot with this — once this version feels good you can even advance into down dog with wrists flipped to keep opening further into the forearms. Gomukhasana arms help as well. But for sure, the most important advice is to pay attention to your body and go easy on it when appropriate, injuries are no fun!