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Guest post from my friend injury expert, Rick Kaselj of Exercises for Injuries.
But first, try this little test you see in the video below. #1 You are as Strong as Your Weakest Link The fellow in my class was fatiguing out the forearms when he was doing rowing exercises before his back fatigued out. When it comes to your body, you are as strong as your weakest link. When exercising, if you have weak knees, you are limited with how much you can do because of them. This limits the exercises you can do and how hard you can go, which ultimately affects your fat loss results.
If your weakest link in your upper body is your elbows or forearms, this limits how much upper body work you can do.
You will end up plateauing out in the weights that you can do when it comes to upper body exercises like bench press, rows, curls, and presses. Plus you will fatigue out in exercises like burpees, push-ups, close grip push-ups, cross-body mountain climbers, inch worms, inverted rows. Many more finisher exercises will be tough to do, or painful.
If you cant do as many reps of the finisher exercises, you dont get as much fat loss results. The weakest links in this fellows upper body were his forearms and elbows, which were affecting his results. #2 Do You Get Pain in the Wrist with Push Ups? I asked the fellow another question: Do you get wrist pain when you do a push-up? His answer was, Yes. This is also another classic sign that your forearms and elbows are the weakest link in your upper body.
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Source: (weblink) http://www.bootcampexercises.net/avoiding-elbow-pain-in-bootcamp-workouts/