FIRST: If you have persistent issues, find a doctor or physical therapist that can help you. Pain is a broad and complex topic, and chronic pain is every more complex. Don’t be afraid to find help!
Please watch the whole video to figure out which exercise is best for you to try. It will teach you what to do, why you’re doing it, and how to do it well.
In this video, I’ll show you a few exercises I like to use when a client tells me they’re feeling elbow pain during their push ups.
Sometimes you’re just messing up your push up. Make sure you’re doing it really well. I have a ton of videos in my “Fixing Your Push Up” playlist on YouTube.
If you’re pretty sure you’re doing the exercise mostly right, then you might just not have the shoulder, rib, and spinal mobility to do push ups. We’ll have to make you more flexible.
Now, stretching is generally a bad way to get more flexible. See my post “Stop Stretching, You’re Wasting Your Time” if this is news to you.
Especially when there’s elbow pain, you’ll probably also notice a little twist through your torso. And it occurs in a predictable spot because humans are predictably asymmetrical.
