Bummer, dude. Hope you have a speedy recovery.
That sucks mate. Hope it isn’t too bad and it’s a quick recovery. Time to really focus on legs !!!
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Sorry to read that. Wishing you a quick recovery.
Oh man this hurts to ready, my friend.
Wishing you all the best and a speedy recovery! Do you know when you’ll be able to get an image?
Sorry to hear Vinny! Was really looking forward to meeting you at BoB! Hope it’s nothing major bro. Gonna go extra hard at the comp for you.
Excited to see you come back stronger dude.
Sending good wishes and strength your way my brother!
That sucks out loud. Hope it’s minor.
Damn man that fucking sucks. Hopefully the healing and recovery goes well
Thank you guys, means a lot.
I saw my ortho and he confirmed my suspicion that I tore the top head pretty bad from the tendon, but it is well intact and functioning. I am left to rehab it on my own.
Because I avoided NSAID’s, the swelling is pretty severe and I am unable to straighten my arm without moderate pain. I’ll probably get back to training next week, but the format is totally unknown. Maybe I’ll do a dumbbell workout.
Either way, I pushed a bit too hard for this comp. I can’t even be upset, I got stronger than ever. Time to get back on the horse.
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11/26/20 - Happy Thanksgiving and such. I’ve been sick with constipation (what has now turned to diarrhea), and I’ve lost about 10lbs of weight since injury. Mostly water as I dropped off creatine instantly and have been eating about 1/2 my normal daily calories.
I have been thoroughly enjoying not training in the last week, but for the sake of my physical and mental health, I had to get moving again. Started the workout with blood flow work on the torn bicep.
Left Arm DB Curl
3lbs x 15
5lbs x 15
8lbs x 6 curls, x6 isometrics
x6 iso
Overhead Press/Back Squat/Single Leg DB Deadlift circuit for 3-5 rounds, cant even remember. Just did this with hardly any premeditation. Pushed out what felt good, and stopped when I got too winded. Feeling super, super exhausted today. Lack of calories and just not moving the body enough+being sick on top definitely siphons from you.
Hardly any left arm weakness, but it’s there. Particularly on the overhead press it was most pronounced. My injured arm is still very bruised. Entire bicep is lime green with a band of purple tranverse halfway down. I feel very little pain unless I overcontract/load.
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12/2/20 -Bw 223. Have not formally trained in 2 weeks since the tear. Just have been enjoying the time away from the weights for once. I honestly can’t remember the last time I took 2 weeks off (not just deloading).
Update on bicep: After the swelling wore off, the bruising was pronounced but it went away after a week. At this point I had great ROM and the pain was pretty much gone, minus some tightness at certain end-ranges. Oddly enough, more bruising came back but this time by my distal tendon and by the brachialis/outer arm near tricep (weird). A week after (now), bruising is basically gone and I can load 45lb plates to face height with no issues.
Strict Overhead Press
95x12
115x12
135x12
175x8
225x3
Incline DB Bench (3 second neg)
40x10
40x10
40x10
VMO Squats (raised heel, toes out , knee over toe)
25x15
25x12
40x15
40x12
VL Squats (toes normal, femur outsid of hips)
40x15
40x15
40x12
DB SLDL
40x12
40x12
40x12
Seated HS Curl
x12 half rom/x10 out to in/x10 full ROM x 3 rounds
And finished with some obligatory bicep rehab work
my new and improved bicep peak
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New T-Nation article by Vinny.
How to get instant bicep peaks in one easy step
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12/7/20/ bw 222. Training has been random and infrequent, but I will start going daily with probably 1 or none rest days. Goals for the session are as followed: To drench my soul in trenches of lactic acid by way of HIIT.
workout from the 5th
Bench Press
135x15
135x15
135x15
DB Row
40x15
40x15
40x15
180 squat jumps into DB Snatch
x10/x10 x 3 rounds
12/7/20
Deadlifts
135x15
155x10
155x10
155x10 these were actually not easy. My body is so detuned right now. Eating like a non-strongman for now.
Bent Row
150x6
150x6
150x6
VMO Squat to Step Up (50lb weight vest) 30 seconds of each exercise (30s per leg for step up). 5 second rest between rounds, 3 total rounds. I admittedly stalled a lot on the vmo squats. They’re SO painful.
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That goal sounds oddly satisfying.
Miss u !
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12/11/20 - I keep telling myself i’ll log my menial workouts but i just cant lol. The strongman in me is just unwilling to accept such silly workouts as being something worth sharing. In a nutshell, I’m training daily and just doing bodybuilding stuff but finishing with HIIT blast sessions that drain me.
Bw recently between 218-222. Dieting down slowly and kinda naturally. Not sure if i’ll cut much more. Starts to get pretty difficult around 215.
Rear Delt Flye
x15
x15
x15
x12
Strict Overhead (todays session) bw 220
45x15
95x3,3
135x3
155x1
185x2
225x1
255x1
275x1 well that went well
225x3 well that went poorly.
135x12
135x8
135x6
Flat DB Bench (slow tempo)
40x8
40x8
40x8
Deficit Push ups
x5
x5
x5
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Bodybuilding with HIIT doesn’t sound menial , but I get it.
How you been doing ?
Merry Xmas bro !
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I’ve been alright. Training has been going well but it’s very lacking in structure and I’m sort of doing whatever.
I front squatted 405 and deadlifted 525 with ease weighing around 218-220 recently. Not even close to PRs but they felt great and I weigh less, so that’s cool. I do want to compete but I also need to rest my bicep and take advantage of the downtime allowing me to recuperate the rest of my body.
I’ve been spending time with family and cleaning my house a lot. A lot a lot. Idk why, it’s fun.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Jenn and the rest of my T nation friends 
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Merry Christmas. Hope you had a good one.
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Got some training in with my brother (IG@godsbicep) this past week over the holiday. Had a lot of fun. Sadly did not film any lifts but I did pretty well considering I have not trained strongman in over a month. BW is like 220-225 depending on what I eat during the day.
12/27/20
Front Squat
95x10
135x3,3,3
185x3
225x2
275x2
325x1
365x2
405x3 with plenty more, just an easy set respecting the fact I am not in shape for major work on this
Yoke
275x60’
365x60’
455x60’
545x60’
615x60’ felt fast and light especially for not touching yoke in god knows how long. Could have went heavier.
Sandbag
200x60’
200x60’
200x120’ no issues with bicep, but this made me SORE the next day
12/29/20
Log Clean and Press
110x3,3
160x3,3
210x1
240x1
280x1 was a bit worried about the clean but I had no issues with any of the weights. Press was fine, a bit shaky at the top.
Axle Power Clean and Press
185x5
185x5
185x3-5
Some accessories and called it. Pretty random training but it was fun.
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