How to safely start lifting

[Piickle]

Last time I tried to start lifting and killed my arms and developed tennis elbow. Now that I’m back I’m looking for tips to start lifting again to build forearm muscle and stay injury free. Any tips?

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

Last time I tried to start lifting and killed my arms and developed tennis elbow. Now that I’m back I’m looking for tips to start lifting again to build forearm muscle and stay injury free. Any tips?

Are you certain it was TE and not GE (golfer's elbow)? TE is lateral epicondylitis whereas GE is medial epicondylitis.

Both are overuse injuries. GE will often occur if you squeeze too tightly when playing tennis or when lifting weights.

 

[PKorda]

Assuming you don't want to pay a personal trainer - and I don't blame you - google the exercises you're doing and make sure you're using the correct form. Correct form is super important esp. at first, don't worry about how much weight you're using (within reason obv. you don't want to curl 10 pounds). Ramp things up slowly, increasing weight and frequency of workouts as you get comfortable and build a routine. And get a theraband (green) to help with TE, can use it as preventative measure even if not currently experiencing it.

 

[LuckyR]

You don't state your age but working muscles while protecting joints usually involve lower weight and higher reps.

 

[Piickle]

You don't state your age but working muscles while protecting joints usually involve lower weight and higher reps.

Yeah I think I’ll try lower weight and higher reps