How biggest question I think is how do you get bicep tendonitis? This of course so that you can learn to avoid it. Tendonitis is result of overstress to the bicep tendon. Having a weak tendon might make the risk of getting it higher but even if you do have a strong bicep over training and over stressing your bicep can wear your bicep tendons out. When this happens you will begin to feel pains where these tendons lie and this pains can severely hamper your activity

Overdone repetitive moves that stress the tendon will inevitable give you bicep tendonitis. Like throwing a football or performing way too many bicep curls or movements.

The symptoms include

- Pain when bending your arm

- specified spot of pain, not pain in the whole arm

- From time to time hearing a pop sound in your shoulder as well as feeling a sudden sharp pain in your shoulder area.

So what do you do to escape bicep tendonitis?

If you feel you’re getting bicep tendonitis on one of your biceps then the smartest thing to do is stop performing the exercise or movements that is causing the tendonitis in the first place. That’s easier said then done especially if you’re a serious athlete. Having said that you can take steps to help you with it. First thing you should think of is applying ice. Ice can really help you. The second thing is trying to take rest periods anytime the pain presents it self. You can’t over do it when you feel you have bicep tendonitis. Its one thing to want to push your self but not when you might have an injury. So when you can rest. Also regularly take breaks and stretch the targeted area

So lets say you where unable to prevent the bicep tendonitis and you come down with an acute case. What do you do?

-Rest. Like I mention above. Rest is the only true cure for tendonitis. At this point you need to stop all and any strenuous activity on your bicep muscle

- Ice. Apply a cold pack or ice on the bicep with tendonitis for 20 minutes 4 times a day until swelling dies down

-Stretching. After acute pain has died down you should perform light, gentle stretches to the bicep with tendonitis.

- Medication. Take ibuprofen (Advil. Etc) to help with any pain and to help with inflammation

Try to avoid bicep tendonitis from the beginning. Do this by avoiding over training. Its one thing to train hard its another to over do it. So be careful with your training and avoid bicep tendonitis