Good power clean alternative?

Illustrious Potentate · Tuesday at 8:12 AM

I started going to the gym again about a month ago after taking a few months off when the young un was born.

Power cleans have always been my favorite lift, but since I started back, when I do the curl and squat part, it sends a sharp pain in my inner left elbow. Elbow has never given me problems before and no other lift seems to be a problem, but with the way it is, I’m worried I might left go of the bar with my left hand and crush my foot

So, I need something else to replace them. It sucks, but is what it is

williewilliejuan · Tuesday at 8:25 AM

When I saw “power clean” I thought you were asking how to get jizz stains out of silk…

Club soda, by the way.

ill · Tuesday at 8:37 AM

is the pain feel like it's a tendon? sounds like tennis elbow.

Illustrious Potentate · Tuesday at 8:40 AM

ill said:
is the pain feel like it's a tendon? sounds like tennis elbow.

I’ve never had elbow issues before, I don’t really know. No other lift causes any kind of discomfort, I don’t know what it is. Unless it becomes an issue for other things, I’m gonna leave it be

ill · Tuesday at 8:43 AM

Illustrious Potentate said:
I’ve never had elbow issues before, I don’t really know. No other lift causes any kind of discomfort, I don’t know what it is. Unless it becomes an issue for other things, I’m gonna leave it be

I'd probably put a sleeve on it and keep to lower weight with your lifts until you feel more confident...can probably still do power cleans, just don't push it

@RobBase and @Deep Dish Pizza Goat are likely your best bets for getting ideas for other lifts...I never got into power cleans.

DJ Fieri · Tuesday at 9:04 AM

williewilliejuan said:
When I saw “power clean” I thought you were asking how to get jizz stains out of silk…

Club soda, by the way.

LOL.

dikowt dowg · Tuesday at 9:34 AM

Illustrious Potentate said:
I started going to the gym again about a month ago after taking a few months off when the young un was born.

Power cleans have always been my favorite lift, but since I started back, when I do the curl and squat part, it sends a sharp pain in my inner left elbow. Elbow has never given me problems before and no other lift seems to be a problem, but with the way it is, I’m worried I might left go of the bar with my left hand and crush my foot

So, I need something else to replace them. It sucks, but is what it is

Exercise bands.

Illustrious Potentate · Tuesday at 9:37 AM

dikowt dowg said:
Exercise bands.

I’ll let you know if I decide to get a sex change operation

dikowt dowg · Tuesday at 9:51 AM

Illustrious Potentate said:
I’ll let you know if I decide to get a sex change operation

lmao...drop a barbell on yourself then.

Illustrious Potentate · Tuesday at 9:54 AM

dikowt dowg said:
lmao...drop a barbell on yourself then.

I still do my other lifts without issue

Deep Dish Pizza Goat · Tuesday at 11:26 AM

Honestly rest that muscle movement.

I was having problems with my delts and traps for no reason last year during back and shoulder day, shoulder presses. Took a month off, tried again, it came back. Took three months off, it’s been good to go since. Put another shoulder pull in there to compensate.

Did nothing to have this happen (no hockey/lifting injuries etc.) but the rest eventually just worked.

Deep Dish Pizza Goat · Tuesday at 11:26 AM

dikowt dowg said:
Exercise bands.

dhoey · Tuesday at 11:49 AM

bupees, lunges and squats

Illustrious Potentate said:
I started going to the gym again about a month ago after taking a few months off when the young un was born.

Power cleans have always been my favorite lift, but since I started back, when I do the curl and squat part, it sends a sharp pain in my inner left elbow. Elbow has never given me problems before and no other lift seems to be a problem, but with the way it is, I’m worried I might left go of the bar with my left hand and crush my foot

So, I need something else to replace them. It sucks, but is what it is

Elbow issues popping up after the wife had a kid.......she kept ya out for 6 weeks and looked what happened :laugh3:

Illustrious Potentate · Tuesday at 11:56 AM

dhoey said:
bupees, lunges and squats

Elbow issues popping up after the wife had a kid.......she kept ya out for 6 weeks and looked what happened

Baby mama, not wife. I have no intentions of getting married

PeoplesChicken · Tuesday at 12:06 PM

dhoey said:
bupees, lunges and squats

Elbow issues popping up after the wife had a kid.......she kept ya out for 6 weeks and looked what happened

Sympathy pains perhaps?

PeoplesChicken · Tuesday at 12:10 PM

Illustrious Potentate said:
I still do my other lifts without issue

Welcome to the club. This is just the start of it my good man. Some others on here have already suggested resting that muscle group or taking a break from that movement which is good advice. I used to get some tendonitis in one of my wrists and only really felt it doing incline presses, everything else was not a problem. So there must be something to that specific action. It happens to all of us. Listen to your body and give it some rest.

rsw626 · Tuesday at 12:18 PM

Illustrious Potentate said:
I started going to the gym again about a month ago after taking a few months off when the young un was born.

Power cleans have always been my favorite lift, but since I started back, when I do the curl and squat part, it sends a sharp pain in my inner left elbow. Elbow has never given me problems before and no other lift seems to be a problem, but with the way it is, I’m worried I might left go of the bar with my left hand and crush my foot

So, I need something else to replace them. It sucks, but is what it is

Eases up on your wanking, or at least switch hands.