That sound a bit weird, with the biceps, hope it goes away quickly.
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That was a joke
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That joke will never be funny in a place dedicated to muscle/strength building.
Markko about your arm get that looked at or at least go a smidge easier on it. Sounds like a serious injury like somehow you pushed it to its limits that it can handle (big 3) then you did some weird stuff (hypertophy) and it rubbed it funny to cause an injury.
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That workout looks fucking horrible dude. Just an FYI, in case you didn’t notice while you were doing itm
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Woke at 262.6 lbs, looking similar to yesterday. Calories and macros went out a bit yesterday, we had an extended family dinner. I hit around 3500 calories (so nothing terrible), and fair chunk of that came from Guinness and Corona.
Left arm is better, less tension and discomfort. It did keep waking me up because lying down just makes it hard to keep in a comfortable position. Between the Bowtie, manual release and pull aparts I’m sure it will be fine.
@BOTSLAYER I think I know how this all happened. On Monday, those curls got me a hellacious pump, rare for me. Tuesday lots of benching, no issues but obviously a lot of external rotation. Then Friday all those pushups before dips to make sure my rotator cuffs were working hard. What I noticed midway through dips was my upper back getting massively pumped up, I would assume from stabilising my shoulders. I think that was the point where my bicep had to start doing extra work, and adding pullups after was the last straw, and I got that knot. The rest is history.
So yeah, like I said I may well ditch the curls on Mondays for the rest of the five weeks. Definitely won’t do them tomorrow.
@dagill2 no, I figured that out. It only gets worse.
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You didn’t see his last workout, did you?
The biceps don’t only flex the elbow, the also extend the shoulder, as in bring your arm up like a front raise. Dips have your arm pulled way back, which would put some tension on your bicep. It could have something to do with that. I had bicep issues on and off for a while and I actually find that curls help prevent that. Just something to consider.
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Absolutely. I think what may work is letting my bicep calm the hell down and then curl.
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I would’ve hit that just at the dinner.
Don’t under estimate this. This is actually the main function of the biceps. Don’t make it mad. All my problems started by popping the tendon out of the groove. It wasn’t from curls, either.
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I had a pound of yoghurt before we left for the dinner because I was hungry, and then picked at some mandazi (central African doughnut, basically, I could eat infinity of them). Then I started drinking and that kept my stomach full so when dinner rolled around I just filled my plate with a modest serving of everything.
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@Frank_C @chris_ottawa thanks guys, hits the nail on the head. My left bicep right now doesn’t want anything to do with flexing my elbow or raisining my arm. I’m really glad I have a bow bar and SSB at my disposal.
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Extra workout
Two rounds of 25 each of
Pull aparts
Air squats
Reverse hypers
Lying leg raises
It’s funny how easy it was to slip into ‘diet mode’. Tracking, thinking ahead to what I can eat if I eat something, picking what to eat based on macros, being hungry in the evenings. All that. I mean, it’s only a few weeks in and of those only one where my activity level was back to normal but still reassuring that it is something I can do.
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I did. I was making another joke like a muscle wasting disease is our worst nightmare and thus not funny/too soon. Man there needs to be a sarcasm/joke button for internet posts
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I thought you were genuinely offended. Didn’t seem like the Botslayer I know.
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I’ve been trying to offend him for years on here, it doesn’t seem possible.
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Say something about Bourbon I dare ya!!! LOL no that wouldnt work either.
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Woke at 261.9 lbs, looking similar to yesterday. Bicep/shoulder seems a little better.
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Todays training
3x10 bracing hip thrusts supersetted with 15 air squats
10x10 second bracing 90/90
Squat, bow bar
2x10x308 lbs
Close stance squat, bow bar
2x10x308 lbs - these were all a couple of inches high and my SI joint/whatever appreciated it
Front squat
11x187 lbs
Goblet squat
2x25x53 lbs - I was worried that holding the kb might irritate my bicep tendon but it was fine
Hamstring curl
55 reps in 20/10/10/ 20 or 20/10/ 20- which I just now realise was been 60, or 50, but definitely not 55
I tried the BB curls written with an empty curl bar for a few reps, but even that didn’t go down well so I ditched them.
All up an hour. Wore the Bowtie throughout the whole session, which made things much more comfortable.
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Woke at 262.8 lbs, but looking what seems to be quite a bit less bloated. Bicep also seems better
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Now that sounds like some good news.