Bicep Blog - a tale of a tear, and recovery - mental and physical!
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yeah, being an isolation exercise don't need heavy weight, just strict form this guy reckons. WE call these books our bibles. When we are going to work out a body part we are reading up on them before we hit the gym. They ARE everything that you've always wanted in a work out book. What exercises to do, what order to do them in, when to do them, why to do them, hell almost down to what colour socks to wear for most benefit they are that detailed...!!
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BOOM, here's a tickler if you're at a loose end on a Saturday 5 weeks out from Nationals and want to come in with legs that make razors look blunt....<br />
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Simple as too.<br />
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300 walking lunges, followed by 150 hamstring curls.<br />
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And we're done.<br />
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Lunges took about 12 odd minutes, was outside the gym in an empty section that was 50 lunges long! Then the hammy curls ended up with 24 on the machine, doing around 20 at a time, pause, 20 more, pause, until 150 were demolished.<br />
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Great pain inducer! -
weights when you do low numbers is sweet. Also try them in a SMith Machine. feet well in front of bar, and step back with alternate feet. Can load up a bit of weight that way, is hard work even just doing 20 (10 each leg). Dumbells, you can sling them up onto your shoudlers, which stops any lean forward!<br />
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but for the 300, no weight is FINE, and today my legs are shot. Quads and hamstrings and glutes. Fine so lons as I don't flex a thing! -
Was that 300 each side? Thats insane. Hows the progress with your bicep?<br />
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With the leg, I am able to walk, and can handle walks most days. With working as a teller in a bank I have to be careful with how much I do before and after work because Im on my feet and up and down most of the time. The most important thing for me is to keep the pain killers up.<br />
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nah, that would be insane, it was 300 total, and that took 12 minutes at any rate. I think I would draw the line at 25 minutes of lunges....!!!<br />
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Squats, yep, they are no worries. Finishing with 2 sets of 20 at the end of our current leg workout. Next one sees us supersetting 8 squats with 60 lunges....<br />
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Lunges, I always thought they were a wussy girl thing. Not even ouw! -
Interesting reading this and your treatment for this one Bart. Seems you have to be a bit more careful with the bicep eh. Have done my achilles and have done a bit of reading and they are pretty aggressive with the treatment for it these days. Doc reckons back playing sport in 3 months! No weight bearing for the first four weeks (post op which needs to be done within 7-10 days of injury) then on a boot with heel wedges for another four, then four weeks of rehab.
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yeah dunno he's been pretty insistent that I do NOTHING on the repair job. I go see him again Thursday for hopefully the last check up. have been adding weight to bicep curls and have ahd a few physio sessions with the physios just getting in with massage to attack the scarring more than anything.
