Tricep Injury - HELP!!!!

[CVSI]

Everytime i surf for longer than 2 hours, afterwards, i have a nasty knot in my left tricep & its driving me crazy as i cant lift the arm horizontally upwards without pain.
I condition train in the gym 4 nights a week - focusing heavily on rotator cuff conditioning & tricep endurance, and stretch thoroughly before & after every surf as well as swimming regularly.

The problem has been there for nearly a year now - a deep massage to rub the knot out always seems to work & by the evening of the next day, the pain & movement restriction is gone - but then the next time i surf - it returns.

I live in africa, so getting good professional advice on this is difficult.
I feel the pain in the side deltoid (not sure of the correct medical term for this), yet after warming the tricep up with a massage - i can feel the knot. After 20 minutes of massage & incredible pain - the knot is slowly massaged out & by the next day the problem/pain/restriction is gone.

I would be interested to know if anyone else has/had this problem - & if so how they got rid of it.

[surfdaisy06]

I sometimes get sore arm muscles after surfing, but its always most probably because I dont stretch beforehand.
I cant think of anything else, just stretch before you surf.

[drowningbitbybit]

Everytime i surf for longer than 2 hours, afterwards, i have a nasty knot in my left tricep... I condition train in the gym 4 nights a week

You're training too much, and focussing on training the bit that hurts. You need to cross-train the other muscles... and REST.

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

deltoids can be very delicate.
i recommend to train them right.. stand up straight.. hold a fairly light not a lot of resistance to begin with dumb bell in each hand and lift them away from your sides.

also try this one:


but seriously be careful as they are very delicate muscles.. i pulled on doing the cables at the gym with 45lbs on each arm and it felt like no weight but boyyyyy was i wrong.. it didn't feel like much weight but it was seriously hard on my deltoid instantly messing my right delt up BAD.

[Dr Rev]

Sounds to me that your not letting it heal, try doing less weights etc, and go for resistance training ?

Swimming will help too !

Best of luck !

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

oh and don't work out the same muscle with free weights more than once a week.. or else you just tear a partial healed muscle back open.. you wanna.. like said in the last post.. let it heal.

[CVSI]

Sound advice guys.
Overtraining & not enough rest seems to be the common theme on all the forums i posted this on.
I had a deep massage last night & one thing the physio commented on was that i had a lot more toxins & nodules on my left side (from the rear delts through the lats) than on the right.

He seemed to think that my right arm is a lot stronger than my left, & therefore when paddling hard - the left side is going overtime to compensate.

Anyhow, new swell starting tonight!