Checking in:
Hit rock bottom. Fucked up my tricep tendon somehow during my workout session yesterday. Hamstring I’m getting PT for, but it’s going to be a few months before I can get back to safely running we discussed. Goal is still to sprint again for first time since 2016
Going back to the injured tricep tendon / area (pretty sure it’s tendon) I wanted to point out some things so others can maybe avoid this type of mistake(s) for themselves and others in the future
Mistake # 1 - Definitely not getting a proper warm up. Cannot because walk is not enough for me to get body temp up and the hamstring is greatly limiting intensity. Would be fine if gyms were available and safe to train at but that’s not a reality here just yet. But I think warming up with dynamic movements alone is not enough. I’m almost convinced that if you aren’t sweating and moving and out of breath, you’re prone to fucking up some area of your body. Just very risky stuff. I think somebody should write a book strictly about warming up properly. The best way you can. And have routines for injured persons, people with certain diseases and disabilities and the like. That would be a best seller. Everyone should exercise
Mistake # 2 - Too many sets of OHP. I usually do a lot, maybe 3-4 warm up sets of 35 reps with a resistance band. Then two warm up sets with light weight. Then go into 12-15 rep range for 4 working sets. I think even though I adapted, that this style is probably not good to do long term. Going forward. I think I’ll start throwing in more strength training with the OHP and limit the volume / bodybuilding mass routine and rep scheme. I’ll play with more rep and set schemes and not get too addicted to pumping out massive amounts of reps. Even my warmup sets were a bit excessive, probably way too much repetitive motion now that I’m thinking into this
Mistake # 3 - I was locking out on OHP when I knew my left arm was somewhat limited still with its full ROM. I usually give some leeway to the joints because I injured that left arm doing pullups months back. But yesterday I decided to lock out, even though my arm was not even used to such stimuli in training. Did that on a lot of sets so maybe that is what got it injured? I have several guesses as I still am not sure
Mistake # 4 - I did a new exercise that was awkward as fucking fuck. DB rows on 30 degree bench incline and it felt so wrong and awkward. My shoulders were rolled a bit from bad posture (another huge factor that may have fucked me) so yeah. I should have stopped this exercise and just did band rows. So much smoother. It’s on your feet so more athletic, more muscles used, better exercise overall but I wanted to work with weights again since I injured the hs doing bent over rows for extended periods of time in a half squat position. Was a big mistake. The exercise felt fucked from the start. Had to brace with an extreme arch in back and then brace myself accordingly to the bench by tightening my core, idk why the fuck I was so dumb and decided to go with this exercise. Looking back, there was no point. No advantage. Rows with bands are just as good
Mistake # 5 - Bad posture from poor sitting habits. I already did one PT session that I looked up on Athlean-X youtube channel to fix this issue today. Going to continue with it until posture is picture perfect. I don’t care how fucking tedious and boring it is. I’ll never lose sight of posture goals again. Not if tricep injury is a possible outcome. Never going to make this mistake again fuck that
Mistake # 6 - Doing pushups despite being very shaky (obviously weak and not feeling it) but I persevered past shakiness and decided to do them despite the weakness aspect right in front of my face. I hadn’t done them in weeks, and lowered my number down a bit, but still, right from the start I was shaky. Should have just called it a day and did some tmrw. But who knows, maybe my tricep was already injured at that point and that’s why I was shaking? Not sure
Mistake # 7 - Eating ice cream. Lmao. What a pussy I am. This is the one that pisses me off the most. I can go for months without sweets no problem. But sometimes I’ll have a taste of something, anything (this time it was cinnamon rolls a week or two back) and then it’s a slippery slope downhill from there. Ate too much ice cream and on-top of that, had little to no vitamin c in diet for days straight I’d say. It’s no wonder I felt weak. I was weak. Wasn’t suppling tissues their needs through sound dietary choices. In fact, the sugar was breaking down my already broken down tissue from training I am sure. Lose-lose with the ‘treat’ of ice cream. Now I’m treating injuries lmao. What a disgrace I am sometimes...I’m seriously trying to understand why I even have these relapses? When my roommates bring it into the environment and allow me free access to as much as I’d like it’s dangerous. I’ll have to have keto alternatives for emergency ready in such cases in the future. Then I wont even need sugar. Sound plan imo
Sorry for the long post. But it had to be done. I have to learn from these mistakes and document them. And I hope at least one person can benefit as well, that would make this all worth writing and reliving such a miserable failure. Only thing I have is that I tried, and got to my feet immediately after such a huge disappointment. Injuries are nothing to me now. I’m like 97% numb to the entire process after literally hundreds of them. It’s more or less something expected from me at this point. Just goes to show how grueling the lifestyle can be. Being intelligent about every aspect of your training is do or die type shit for real. You make a mistake that’s injury and cellular death at the site. But I’ve accepted it, planned for it’s recovery and will be working hard to heal. Can’t quite how disappointed I am in myself though. Is it the nerve disease that plays part in this? To some degree, but minimally? Who can say for sure, the only thing I know is that I am fucking up and things need to be altered. I’d rather get pistol whipped and have half my nose gashed off if it meant I never ate another sweet again. Fuck, I’d practically take a bullet if it meant never being tempted by another sweet / dessert again
Calling it a night. I’m a fucking pussy. Going to stay on the grind and keep doing these soft ass therapy workouts my dumbass has relegated to; all by my own doing as well. Rock bottom, ladies and gentlemen, don’t end up here at any cost
Tesseract
, thanks for doing that fast you did bro. I was thinking that’s likely exactly what I could use. Revive and reset the system 
Cutty Flam
. You'll be back to where you were in no time, just play it smart like you already pointed out. Building up to sprinting seems like a valid goal. I've been doing work on my ankles for that very purpose. I wanna run, but I also don't wanna snap something lol
VlaudTheImpaler
