How I tore my Right Biceps

A reflection of how to be stupid at any age.

Last Saturday August 7th after I had ran the 8 am and 9 am Hostyle Conditioning Class.

I decided to drop in on Doug (MadDog) Strudwick and Darren Mallette for
some Strongman Training.

It was Tire fliping day

We were using a 700 lb ish tire, Now I had not really trained the tire
much and I was feeling particularly saucy that afternoon.

The boys were showing me the finer points of tire flipping. Some flips I was
really popping it up easily when I had the technique down. The other times
I was just using brute strength and muscling it up as ugly as possible.

After I had done a dozen or so flips, (by this time Doug and Darren had done it 30 plus times), the boys were working on making the tire heavier.

After they had stuffed a smaller 45 lb tire inside we went to flipping it again.
Not only was it heavier but alot stiffer making it harder to do.

I mangled a few reps up. they were throwing it up.

So they decided it was time to make it heavier. At this point my inner voice starting telling me that I had done enough and should stop.

Then the voice in my testicles said " Really, you can't stop now"

So being a man in my early forties with 20+ years of training I opted to ignore the voice of reason, and went with my Testicular voice(which has never, ever steered me wrong in the past..wink..wink)

I decided to hit one last rep.....Mistake....

As I popped the tire off the ground I got stuck half way so I tried to pull it up in an arm curl motion....

and thats when I heard the "Crunch" sound.

I stepped back and let the tire fall. I was pacing around trying to see where I had hurt myself. For Fuck Sakes I thought to myself was it my pec? my Shoulder? after some arm movement I found it be concentrated in my upper bicep area.

The panic began to wane and the urge to vomit was upon me, Of course I couldn't let the boys see any of this.

At this point my testicular voice was pretty much no-where to be found.

I quickly said that I had to go and drove home to see what the damage was.

I didn't have any brusing that day or the next, by Tuesday night the colors started coming in.

By Thursday it was a full blown Freak show....



Tonite Friday August 13th I did some benching I only went to 315 for some doubles
to see how it felt (sure now I was being sensible)

I did a bunch of 1 arm Kbell swings and sone Band tricep push downs.

Lets see how things are over the next few days!!