Please only reply if you have a clue what your talking about: I have a couple of chaps training with me and they appear to have limited extention of their elbow joint. Whereas I can extend my arm to almost beyond 90 degrees, they appear to have some problem with extending there arm until straight stopping some 10 degrees short. This is causing a problem when they are padding and sparring because they are hyper extending when missing and thus causing damage to the join, that appears to be muscle strain of the bicep and also the brachiallis. Has anyone come across this problem before? How did you resolve? I am slightly torn on this one- I might try and add flexibility to the joint via developmental streching of the bicep but will this cause more problems due to the 'new' movement capability of the joint? Or should work be done to reduce extension of arms on punches. I think first one makes most sense. Please only post if you have a clue. Cheers in advance. :good
Hatton developed this issue and had to go through some painful physio to straighten it up. I think his bent arm was a result of boxing. Fraziers arm was bent but that was due to a child hood accident. My work mates arm is bent due to an accident and not using the arm much after that. He has to do normal stretches to stretch it back out again.
He went to the physio today... I was right, tightening of the bicep. Developmental stretching was the way forward. Cheers for the reply Achilles.
When I have been boxing, and weight lifting both (in other words, some days lifting in the morning, boxing in the afternoon...or lifting one day, boxing another day) I have tended to get that...it seems to be from tight muscles..i have also noticed i tend to slow down when im lifting....so i dont lift much when im really boxing..but im getting older now, so less competion, so more lifting (much easier way to look like you can kick ass..even if your too tight and slow to actually manage it)
The problem usually starts from the elbow not conciously knowing where it started from, therefore not knowing where to finish causing damage to the Cartiledge and Tendons Bad preperation in Technique and preperation of the muscular system.
