Kind of an emotionally rollercoaster kind of day.

I woke up this morning and my tendonitis had already kicked in before I even got out of bed... so I'm going to have to pay attention to what my arms are doing when I first wake up, I might need to keep them as straight as possible.

I didn't do any exercise today, saving myself for Ninja Class, last chance training before the comp on Saturday in Boise, Idaho. My arms were fine throughout the day.

As soon as we did anything, the tennis elbow flared straight up (outside of the elbow facing outwards) and it wasn't long before the triceps had flared up as well.

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I pretty much ignored them, but I really wasn't good in any of the courses - and haven't been for the last few weeks - so I know the tendonitis is impacting my performance.

And now, a brief intermission

What the hell is this amazingness?

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Post resuming in 5, 4, 3....

After an hour and a half, my arms were completely on fire... and by the time I got home an hour later, they were still crazy bad. I started working on my rice bucket, where I jab my hands in and then open them right up under the rice to try and work on the opposite muscles to my gripping muscles.

That didn't make a difference so I started YouTubing around... I had looked up Tennis and Golfers Elbow so many times, but never Tricep Tendonitis before. I found this video that included a couple of stretches.... one stretch involved holding a towel between your hands along your spine (so one hand is behind your head and the other is down near your bum) and you pull with the bottom hand to stretch the top tricep.

Holy Mackerel... the fire pain dissipated almost instantly... I've never ever had a stretch have such an immediate effect before. It was amazing, I was seriously considering dropping out of the comp altogether, but I definitely feel so much better about it all.

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The pain wasn't gone all together, it went from a burning pain to a low ache, so I went and did my Tendonitis Eccentric exercises. This is where you take a really light weighted cable, and you do a series of exercises, but you help your hand through the hard part and then let the weight drag your hand back to the original position... but you slow it's progress a touch.

So, for example, if you were doing this for a bicep curl, you'd had the cable coming from below your arms... you'd use your other hand to lift the light weight to your shoulder, and then with the arm you're exercising, you'd slowly let the weight drop down to your waist... and repeat a kajillion times.

After all that.. my arms do feel better... slight ache still, but definitely better than it was. Nice work YouTube.

If you are having any issues, learn as much as you can about it... and approach it scientifically... it's your responsibility to find what works for you.