Hello, well, I’ll tell you, I had a kind of micro tear / injury in the left UPPER PECTORAL tendon two months ago and by making a change in several exercises and other things I was able to start training the pectoral well after a month, I’ve been training this last one month, only decline bench press and press with supine grip to avoid excessive stretching but yesterday I was training biceps on the incline bench and without realizing I stretched my pectoral a lot, and the discomfort returned, it’s not a pain, it’s just a discomfort, I don’t know if I can train, in short, is there any way I can train to strengthen the tendons???
I’ve always thought when you train everything gets stronger. Obviously it’s takes much longer for connective tissue to strengthen or bones to become denser than it does to build muscle, but stress produces adaptation.
I could be off base here so I’m curious to see what others say. I’d be cautious and make sure form is dialed in and any imbalances are addressed in the short term.
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I am aware that training with weights strengthens not only the muscles but also the tendons, but I want to know if there is any study or experiment that specifies the strengthening of the tendons, I read in an article that the series of 100 repetitions strengthens the tendons but I don’t remember well and I want to know if it is totally true
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Yeah, they say high reps for tendons because they have a poor blood supply. So do high reps and pump things up.
Accommodating Resistance (more weight at the top less weight at the bottom like bands, chains or Strive Machines) is great for tendons. You can work through a full ROM with the weight deloaded or lightened when the tendon is stretched out and the most vulnerable.
You can also use Eccentrics for tendons. Like lower weights slowly on the DB bench press to Gradually learn to control your tendons as they stretch/legthen under the weight.
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I believe this is the bottom line. The only problem is the lag time of tendon strengthening behind muscle strengthening. This should be noted with much seriousness by anyone using AAS to strengthen and develop muscle mass.
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IMO, this makes a lot of sense. The most dangerous position of every exercise is when the muscle is in the stretched position.
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Thank you very much for your answers
to avoid this a bit I plan to use the Dead stop training,
I plan to add different weapons to combat this problem, thank you very much