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Fri 23/12/16 On the road to recovery following repair to left-arm distal biceps tendon rupture. Paused Front Squat (kg) Warmup: bar/10, 30/10, 40/10, 50/10, 60/10 Notes: I recall reading a Dan Jon book on training in which he entitled one chapter: "The warmup is the workout", or something...

Just awesome.

How draining do you find your workouts at this stage in your cycle? If you still feel fairly fresh afterwards, then you could increase the volume by a set or two, particularly for the bigger compound movements. That'll get you up to around 16-20 total reps for the major muscle groups which is a...

That's rather awesome. I do hope you get a chance to do a PL meet sometime next year. I think you would do rather well. Bench seems to be a weakness for most club-level lifters. I thought it was my weakest lift too so I was rather surprised when I out-benched a bunch of younger guys who...

Cheers folks. All the very best with your training for the new year. I hope to be healed enough to be able to get back to full training by the middle of next year. I will get my squats going again soon but it'll only be light, higher-rep stuff until the arm healing is further along.

Sat 17/12/16 Update: Saw surgeon last Tuesday 13th Dec. Had an X-ray and ultrasound to try to figure out what has happened? The X-ray showed the button was still in place. The ultrasound was less revealing as there is so much scar tissue in the area where the tendon should be. The operator was...

Best I can hope for is the surgeon having another go at it. If there was a weak link in the repair and that was why it failed then I'd rather have it happen now than in a month when I was going to begin loading it. I read one surgical report on the procedure in which it said that the sutures...

Good call, only I'm now back to square one. I will carry your advice forward to when I'm back to where I was yesterday, which will hopefully be not much more than 5 weeks away if the surgeon thinks he can try again.

Have just blown biceps again doing my physio. Such a pain. I'm pretty cheesed off that I was given the impression that I should work on getting full mobility. No restrictions placed on movement. Only restriction was on loading. Booked in to see surgeon next Tuesday.

Wed 7th Dec 1 month since distal biceps-tendon rupture. 2 Weeks, 5 Days, Post-Op Arm is doing well. My biggest issue has been the constant neuropathic pain in my left hand. I can distract myself in the day but it's been keeping me awake at night. Yesterday, I was starting to lose the plot...

1 week post-op update. I now have ~90% supination ROM and ~50% pronation ROM. I get a fair amount of pain at the fullest extent of ROM in either direction. Arm flexion has improved as the swelling has gone down. I can touch my head now without much pain. Extension is improving more slowly and...

@Jester: no half-decent gym around here. Won't be driving for 5 more weeks or so.

Cheers folks. Getting out of here later today once all I-V ABs administered. Saw physio this morning. He was extremely pleased with my mobility. Good supination and pronation so soon after. Been working on it all night. He thinks the numbness should improve over the next week. I'm not...

Friday 18/11/16 Hi folks. Had op this afternoon, 11 days post A&E visit. That's actually insanely quick for the NHS. Top surgeon too. I don't suppose it would have been any quicker if I had had the op done privately and I would be down thousands of pounds (GBP) as well. After surgery in...

Nice pressing. I was secretly hoping to catch up to you in my press but that'll have to wait a while now. :) I shall pop by here for inspiration so keep up the solid work.

Thanks guys. My appointment at the orthopaedic clinic is on Tuesday so I will finally get to meet the surgical team to discuss my options. Then am hoping for op on Friday.

@Tot'z: I hope I get back to where I was too and then some. My benching was just coming together and my recent shoulder issue has been improving weekly. Interestingly, I hadn't lifted anything heavy since the meet until the day I sustained my injury when I was doing a few heavier squat singles...

I've found a chap who has documented his recovery from the same injury in a series of vids from which I'm hoping to glean some useful info.

I tried curling 170 kg with one arm. Not a particularly wise thing to do but it wasn't planned. I'm rather ashamed to admit that I was spotting for a mate. When he suddenly got off balance in the hole and the bar tipped to the left, I was worried he was going to get injured and so I...

Tuesday 8/11/16 So, I've popped my left biceps tendon off my radius. I'm hoping to have an operation to reinstall the tendon next Friday. I'm hoping it'll be carried out with a technique like this: I'm feeling a bit cheesed off right now but it is what it is. If any of you good people have...