Bicep Blog - a tale of a tear, and recovery - mental and physical!
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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=';)' /> -
geee, when I am not at work my internet time is WAAAAAAAAY down.<br />
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Anyway, been a few weeks now, are still week, watching the bicep shrink day by day, still not meant to be at work, so of course I AM NOT there at the moment. <br />
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However, I have discovered that I can use a Smith machine for bench press and shoulder press, so that is great news, getting pretty heavy too on those.<br />
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Still have not picked up a milk bottle as surgeon advised. I have however moved house, stacked firewood, shoveled and barrowed horse shit, built scale models. But wiping bum is still a left handed option...!!<br />
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So recovery going well. Had a yarn with mate whose Bicep was reattached too, but his was done a year later (so he could finish his rugby season), so they had to grab some tendon from his hammy as the bicep was too far up the arm to stretch back down. At any rate, he's now pretty much good as gold. When he flexes though the bicep starts 2 and a half fingers up from the inside elbow join, as opposed to 2 for the good arm, so that's not bad, and not noticable to the naked eye. Fingers crossed mine will be better. Surgeon actauclly said it might start closer to the elbow, depending on how much trimming on the trimming on the tendon they had to do. <br />
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SO all good, eating like a bull elephant, have not been NEAR the scales, is funny not eating surgically clean as per the last 3 years, but enjoying the looser eating. Things like a couple of pieces of toast if I am hungry in the afternoon! Eating far too much bread type stuff, but it is a good mind break. And in saying 'far too much', still sod all - it's like toast today, a scone the day before type stuff. Not the half loaf here and there like in the good old fat and unfit days!!<br />
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I even ran on the treadmill the other day. First time I have run since 2009. I still hate it!!!<br />
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and that is all for now. Ness at Whakatane this weekend at BOP championships. She is in the best nick of her life, looking awesome, BF% down to 7. SHe has never been that low before. Fingers crossed she cracks the big one and wins the overall at BOP this weekend. BUt you never know who's going to turn up. -
87.7kg 12.2%BF.<br />
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Not as bad as I thought I'd be, have been too scared to get on the scales!!!<br />
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And with all this rain, have not been able to get onto the road bike and hit some good long rides to fill in the time.<br />
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Otherwise all going as (I guess) it should. See surgeon on the 20th next. -
been training right through but for anything biceps related, so back workouts and obviosuly biceps have been off the menu big time. but legs, chest and shoulders in the Smith machine have been getting a caning! Did some bicep curls for the first time on Sunday, 4kg dumbells. Can't feel anything untoward when I do that, so it must be healing or sometrhing. 6 weeks I think last Friday.<br />
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Check up with surgeon now next tuesday, be interesting to seee progress from there and what the plan is. Seem to have full range of motion, still a little numbness though, but other than a shrunken upper arm and a scar, all systems are go!<br />
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How's your knee doing? -
bonus bounds time - after my millionth chest workout in the snmith machine. Did some incline press with the bar, only light, but no problem with bicep. Then some seated close grip rows, again very light as some of these rowing exercises can get into the biceps. But nice and light, it worked well, could feel into my back nicely. Smith machine upright rows also worked, so might be able to cobble togther a back workout tomorrow, yay.
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Sooo, keep on hurrying up and waiting. More weeks of sweet FA on the horizon after visit to surgeon. All going well, tendon joined up well etc, range of motion good (full actually), everything as it should be. Still wants no loading of the muscle for at least another 4 weeks, and then GRADUALLY get back into loading and working the muscle. <br />
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bah, gradually!! the last think you want to hear when you are champing at the bit to get stuck in!! However it is good to hear things are progressing well, better for your long term training and competing.
