PEG-MGF keeps tempting me and I almost try it but then I read the unknowns and stop myself

I track elbow pain 0–10 daily and keep a separate weekly tonnage column. My trendline says it correlates with grip-heavy pulling volume (r≈0.68 over 12 weeks), not pressing. Adding 3 sets of rows moved my 7-day pain average from 2.1 to 4.6.

So I’d ask: is your elbow pain inner or outer, and does it flare after pulls or pushes? PEG-MGF’s unknowns aside, my log pointed at load sequencing and sleep, not a missing recovery peptide.

What does your weekly set count/tonnage look like for pulls vs presses?

I run a cafe too, and my elbows were the first thing to complain—piping bags, milk crates, and tasting spoons add up. Peptides are way outside my lane, but one thing that helped me stop chasing shiny recovery fixes was a dumb 2-week log: elbow pain 1–10 each morning, plus any shift tasks and gym moves from the prior 24h.

Turned out my flare-ups tracked with back-to-back days of heavy grip work and tray-carrying, not with my lifting volume. Have you tried separating shift-load from gym-load yet? That might tell you whether it’s a recovery gap or just cumulative elbow use.

curious: have you logged elbow pain by side and time of day, not just one daily score? I did that during a rush-heavy week and found my right side flared after long spells of the same repetitive task, while left only complained after carrying heavy trays.

That split made the “lifting vs work” question much clearer. Also, do you notice it on days you skip a proper warm-up before your shift, or only after gym days?

That’s the variable I keep forgetting. I’m still in the unknowns camp on the peptide stuff, so I’m trying to exhaust the boring pattern-finding first.

Not a peptide answer, but have you mapped which lifts actually light up the elbow? I kept a stupid-simple note on my phone: exercise, grip (neutral/pronated), pain 0–10 that night and next morning.

Turned out close-grip bench and straight-bar curls were the main culprits; neutral-grip DBs and not stacking pull days back-to-back calmed it down more than anything. Still on the med, still lifting 2x/week.

PEG-MGF sounds mechanically neat, but with elbows I’d want to know if it’s tendon, joint, or just load management before adding another unknown. What movements flare yours?

I feel this. I almost pulled the trigger on a recovery peptide too, then realized my elbows weren’t under-recovered, they were over-loaded.

What finally helped was auditing grip: I logged neutral vs pronated vs mixed grip for every pull and curl, plus sleep hours. The pattern was obvious—any session with mixed-grip rows or heavy straight-bar curls spiked me two days later, not same day.

Switched those to neutral-grip and kept the rest, and the nagging ache faded. Not saying it’s magic, just that the delayed spike was invisible until I tracked it.

Have you looked at grip variation at all?

Travel angle: I’m in hotels 3 weeks/month and my elbows flared way more on travel weeks than at my home gym. Turned out it was dragging a roller bag one-handed, death-gripping my laptop bag, and those cursed hotel desk chairs.

I started noting elbow pain by context—airport, hotel gym, home gym—instead of just workouts, and the pattern was stupid obvious. Have you compared travel vs home weeks?

That’s what made peptides feel less tempting for me: I was trying to solve a luggage/ergonomics problem with a chemistry experiment.