pec tear --- what now?

[brownchoclit]

dude..what the fuck man..go see a doc asap!! really sorry to hear about your injury mate..there's nothing worse than having one to rob you of those hard earned gains

 

[jon emberlin]

Me and all the boys have been through this and it does suck!!You can work heavy on your legs while your healing up top.

 

[hard2gain]

I was spotting a guy when he tore his pec. He bruised up a lot more than you but didn't have surgery. It was really gross to see though!

The weird thing was he wasn't even going heavy. It was like the 4th rep on a 15 rep set and he was all natural.

 

[Georgia]

You think warming up really, really good would prevent this?

 

[hard2gain]

You think warming up really, really good would prevent this?

I think that is exactly what prevents this!! I had a bad habit of pulling a muscle in my chest every time I went heavy a while back. I started doing 3 warm up sets on a fly machine then doing my normal warm up sets on bench to start my chest day. I haven't had a single problem ever since and my bench has gone up quite a bit because of it.

 

[R1rider]

ya warmups help. i ride the bike for 4-5 mins before every workout, do 2-3 warm up sets and then move on to the working sets

i also do a 5mins cool down on the bike post workout

 

[Georgia]

I think that is exactly what prevents this!! I had a bad habit of pulling a muscle in my chest every time I went heavy a while back. I started doing 3 warm up sets on a fly machine then doing my normal warm up sets on bench to start my chest day. I haven't had a single problem ever since and my bench has gone up quite a bit because of it.

I will do like 100 reps on the cable bench before I even touch chest. Knock on wood, I've never had an injury. I warm my shit up first.

 

[WANNABEAFREAK]

Been 3.5 weeks post operation.

Doctor said my chest is basically recovered completely. I have full range of motion and in fact my chest looks bigger and better on the injured side due to the way he reattached it.

Absolutely no pain and minimal atrophy after 6 weeks from the injury. Doctor said no need for physiotherapy and he did say my recovery speed is nothing but amazing.

The conclusion to this thread = HGH works! Too bad HGH didn't fix my clicking and painful knee joint. But it sure fixed my chest muscle.