Bicep Blog - a tale of a tear, and recovery - mental and physical!
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Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd. <br />
Well, competed in INAB Auckland championships, placed 1st 40+ physique, and won pairs with Ness, and Ness won the open figure short. Typical first competition of the year, not as hard or as ripped at the second and third shots, where I seem to be at my best. Tough too after a week from the tear. Mental prep this week has been ratshit, and on stage in the morning felt flat and disembodied, just 'not there'. When we went out for pairs and overall later in the championships had the mojo back a little. but was not with it really at all.<br />
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Good news though, the bicep was not noticeable anywhere but in my head - trainer in the audience could not notice anything majorly different between the two arms on bicep poses, so just have to get into my hear that everything is all right. So training will carry on as usual, just keeping tabs on the right arm. All bicep exercises are now DB as opposed to barbell exercises. A bonus point I suppose it that the right bicep is blown, not the weaker smaller left one. So I will keep going hard and heavy on the left, and just do what I can on the right within the pain threshold. And post op hopefully once all is running smooth again the right and the left might end up equals after 42 years!<br />
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ahhh, other than that, business as usual on stage, just have to get the head right, and accept that the right bicep is poked until further notice! No doubt operation will end up happening at the most inopportune time, but whatever time, we'll take it, the sooner it is tied back together, the sooner it is recovered! -
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Yeah great work both of you!! Must be stoked with that win on the back of an injury!! awesome stuff : )
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Monday 4th, Tuesday 5th.<br />
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Well ultra-sound as expected confirmed the worst. Tendon torn and waving in the wind, 3cm away from home base. So surgery the only thing that will tie the story back together. I am to call the surgeon today (once I've typed this in fact), and ask for him to look at the scan straight away (on the advice from the ultra sound doc), and see if he wants to see me sooner rather than later. I'm sort of hoping it's sooner, as I have a serious case of the 'blahs'. Training, eating clean, keeping lean, and for what, I'll go under the knife in 3 weeks, so why stay in contest condition etc. It's just the post contest come down, always happens but still sucks. We're seven weeks away from competing at Bay of Plenty NABBA, but the heart is struggling to get back into it. Will stay strong with it though, Ness is still going great guns, so don't want to rain on her parade at the moment, she's in the best condition she has ever been in, just me the broken arse.<br />
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After viewing a few more photos though it is quite noticeable. I will have to work and see if there are different angles I can pull the fist and elbow too.<br />
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Just off the phone - 8:40 am visit to surgeon tomorrow morning. You beauty, lets fast track this bastard.<br />
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that my friends, is all. -
mate, there are about a half dozen places you can pull over on the Waihi / Whanga road, and about two where you can decide to pass if lucky....<br />
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Anyway, saw surgeon today, operation scheduled for the 6th of July. Lucky Friday. Overnight stay, and then recovery. 5% chance of shit happening, and they get the joint moving again almost straight away. -
Thanks Kirwan, I tried it. Not much improvement but it motivated me to look for more exercises to relieve the pain. I'm doing quad stretching and will initially focus on staying within the areas of movement that do not have much pain-sitting stretches.... Sitting is ok. Can't stand up straight and walking is painful. Got a walking stick.<br />
This is a vertebrae, and I guess I need more flexibility in the legs/hips, but the hiking probably was the opposite of what I needed for the back.<br />
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And JK I did it when I kneeled on all fours to pat a cat, then when I went to get up I felt something go out. Off to the hospital on Monday or Tuesday, fingers crossed it miraculously recovers before that.<br />
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Anyway, back on topic, hope Bartman is ok. -
alive, i am alive...<br />
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and hope your back is OK.<br />
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been flat out organising Saturdays comp, abrely time to breath, let alone train, let alone worry about biceps.<br />
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latest update, more pain in forearm at moment, various exercises hurt so avoiding them! <br />
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Operation now set in stone - 6th, so bring it on.<br />
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I am now competing on Saturday at our comp, might be my last one for a year or so! Instead of guest posing.<br />
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68 competitors, so a good sized gig.<br />
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well, 3 days after op and ready to chop arm off! nah, not really, but doc said 3 months before ANY weight bearing, but see him next monday for first real assessment. Going to be a long row to hoe though I am thinking. Defo knocked me around more than I expected, sometimes perhaps you are NOT bulletproof!!<br />
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So probably looking at a good 9 months recovery to get back to being stage ready, but just want to be able to lift a box at the moment! Hard work going from the guy who can lift heavyb shit and move stuff all over the place to the guy with one arm who is farking useless! -
Good luck on a smooth recovery and remember to stay positive and appreciate that it's not something much worse-and value what you have and have achieved.<br />
Oh, and maybe some stair repeats <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
