Triceps pain

Hi eveyone, 

I wanted to ask you about a problem i have with my arms, specifically triceps. I tried climbing for the first time 7/8 months ago. After 3 lessons, I experienced intense, deep pain (raising slowly) that went away after half an hour. After that, I stopped (covid stuff). After 8 months i started climbing again and after 3 lessons, like the first time, same exact pain, after less then 10 minutes. I couldn't do anything but stop

I'm an average trained person, it's not like I'm a guy who didn't do nothing before that. I read some of you solved the problem with push ups, but i'm already doing that for 5/6 years, now. I don't understand what could it be, it's not a classic pain i have after intense training.

I'm waiting to see a doctor. Anyone have any idea? 

Thanks, and sorry for my english. 

Climbing does not cause arm pain, even for beginners. Seeing your doctor is a good idea.

Tip for the new climber: Use your larger leg muscles to push you up; use your arms for balance and some pulling. You shouldn't be climbing mainly with your arms.

FrankPS wrote:

Climbing does not cause arm pain, even for beginners. Seeing your doctor is a good idea.

Tip for the new climber: Use your larger leg muscles to push you up; use your arms for balance and some pulling. You shouldn't be climbing mainly with your arms.

Thanks for the tips. Those are the first things my instructor told me. I'm bouldering too, and I thinks it's normal, at the beginning, making the error of using too much arms. But even considering that, it seems weird to me having the type of pain i'm talking about, instead of some normal pain you have after an hard session of training (that, infact, i had on the other muscles)

Since you say you’ve been doing push ups for 5-6 years, is it possible that the triceps are extremely tight? I thought I had an achilles issue, but it turned out to be a calf tightness issue. Sometimes things can become chronically tight depending on your use patterns. 

Doug Simpson wrote:

Since you say you’ve been doing push ups for 5-6 years, is it possible that the triceps are extremely tight? I thought I had an achilles issue, but it turned out to be a calf tightness issue. Sometimes things can become chronically tight depending on your use patterns. 

Absolutely! I'm seeing a doctor to understand the source, infact. I don't think it is a problem related to push ups and stuff made in the past, cause doing functional training, push ups and every other exercise is part of a balanced program, always respecting the muscle chains; actually solved the pains i was having due to a cervical hernia. About that: there was a comment I don't see anymore, i don't know why. It was about the fact that my problem could be related to the cervical hernia. Today the doctor, too, spoke about the same scenario, and he told me that maybe i will not be able to climb anymore. I sincerely hope not. 

Any of you knows something about climbing and cervical hernia?