[quote]rasturai wrote:
how does shit like this happen anyway…the tears n stuff?
I always thought people who used steroids were more prone to injuries like these because their muscles + strength would grow faster than the tendon strength would grow and therefore things go downhill when underheavy weight etc.[/quote]
it can happen to anyone at anytime. it’s just part of the game. if you are really pushing yourself then its gonna happen. with me, though, most of my injuries have come from stupidity. the first time i tore my pec i was doing 4 board press. i was feeling great so instead of warming up like normal, i jumped from 315 to 585. as i was lowering the weight, i felt it and heard it tear.
the second time i tore my pec, i had cut water to get down to 259 to compete in a SPF meet. i decided at the last minute to do a local meet two weeks before the big meet to just see where i was at. i should have known i was screwed because on my first set of warmups, both my calves locked up. i continued to warmup. on my second attempt with 520 i was bringing it down and again, it tore. when i got up from the bench a guy in the back came up to me and asked if my tshirt had ripped. i said -“no… that was my pec”… to really engrain my stupidity i went on to deadlift. warmups went okay but on my second attempt with 640,as i was passing my knees the oblique on the same side as my pec started to rip. i could feel it tearing like if you were tearing a piece of fabric.
i was almost at lockout, so i tried to continue pulling. i felt another area of the oblique start to tear. my grip finally went and i dropped the weight. all in all, i tore my pec and oblique in three different places. i was black and blue from my collar bones all the way down into my groin.
the worst tear i had was an adductor. i initially tore it by doing heavy stepups onto a bench. i was already fatigued from doing heavy squats. it wasn’t bad and i kinda forgot about it. two weeks later i needed to test my squat for an upcoming meet. my warmups went well but when i got to 495 i started to feel an ache in the adductor. the idiot that i am, i kept pushing. went for 585, hurt like hell, then went to my second attempt-675. as i was sitting into the hole it started to tear and the further i dropped the more i could feel it tear. luckily i was in the cage and had the pins set.
it bled out for two days. when it finally stopped bleeding, my entire leg all the way around was black and blue. at one point i had my cell phone in my jeans pocket in my truck. when i took my pants off, i had the perfect imprint of the phone in the blood under my skin. that injury took an entire year to heal. it still bothers me if i don’t keep it stretched out.
the moral of the story…warmup properly, stay hydrated and LISTEN to your body. if it doesn’t feel quit right, don’t push it. there’s always next time.