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Reducing Arm Pump
Can anyone tell me how to reduce arm pump? Even with gripping the bike with my legs I still get it so bad I can't hang on. Any easy solutions?
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There are different causes and solutions. In general, work out to develop arm strength, have your suspension set up so it works and does not cause a death grip on the bars, and try stretching and exercising a little before a ride to "pre pump" your arms and let them relax. An Aleve (Naproxin) before a ride doesn't hurt either. This works for me.
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is there a place online where one can talk to a medical expert? particularly one who is familiar with arm pump? does anyone know if this exists?
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gascanuck,
Check out this link to the woods racer site. Scroll down and look for drdirtrider's comments. He is a doctor / rider from Washington and has some links with actual exercises you can perform to reduce arm pump. There are a couple links in there so check them all out, but really how long have you been riding for and how long have you had arm pump? It's pretty common thing if you do not ride all the time or haven't been riding for very long. Anyway good luck with it. -Josh http://www.woodsracer.com/portal/for...ead.php?t=8077 |
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thank you Joshp for the info
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I've found that handle bars plays a big factor in arm pump.
With the stock HEBO bars, I did not have any arm pump. I switched to the Hawkins bend Pro Tapers bars I got a lot of arm pump. |
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