Torn pectoral

[Twitched]

Fellas,


I have been feeling like king kong in the gym lately (fina/test/halo), and after my grueling chest day, I saw someones nice post about a torn pec.


Has anyone actually torn their pec before? Or known someone well personally? HOW does this happen? Is it only through poor form or what?


I'm getting nervous about going up any more on my incline db press. I feel great but I am definately due for an injury at this intensity.


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[Twitched]

Bump? I hate doing that.. I apologize :/

 

[gilly6993-recreatedbygeorge]

If it's gonna happen it's gonna happen. You could do it with 135 or 400. Remember, AAS does nothing to strenthen the tendons.

 

[Twitched]

I know. Thats why I am nervous .

No time to be a pussy now, no turning back!

 

[genarr3]

I know a guy that tore a Quad squatting, it detached from the bone. Wasn't bad form either the guy was an experienced powerlifter.
If you're pushing heavy weight for singles you run the risk. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

 

[benchboy55]

i ripped my pec once and god damn it hurt for like 2 months... couldn;t lift shit !!!!!felt like a pussy when i got back in the gym!!!
but it all came back!!

 

[SofaGeorge]

Twitched... I've never heard of anyone tearing a pec with DB's. The only guys I've ever seen tear pecs were working barbell.

DB's are used by a lot of people for the SAFETY superiority.

 

[Twitched]

Twitched... I've never heard of anyone tearing a pec with DB's. The only guys I've ever seen tear pecs were working barbell.

DB's are used by a lot of people for the SAFETY superiority.

Thanks SofaGeorge.

I've discontinued barbell benchpress now for over 4 years.

We could all argue until we are blue in the face, but It's never been effective for me for chest mass, and it is hard on my shoulders.


Thanks again!

 

[Mr.Dank]

You probably read my post.
I would just be really careful. My pec tear was not that bad although I still haven’t done an actual chest work out for 2 weeks still. You can tear muscle, or you can tear the tendon right off the bone. When you tear the tendon, it can be repaired with surgery, but there is almost always nerve damage which ranges from moderate to sever. If the nerve damage is bad. Forget about that muscle the rest of your life. It will never be the same.

I think at this point my mistake was (this is my theory right now), that a certain part of my chest was less flexible than the rest and when I went all the way down on the bench, that particular part of my chest was stressed. I felt it on my second rep, and still did 10 reps. That was stupid. Injuries take too damn long to heal.
Stretch and warm up!

Oh ya, before I tore my chest, I thought the same thing as you and decided to go light for a few workout to let my muscles and tendons catch up. Then I went heavy and it happened.

 

[Realgains]

Bro usually there are micro tears many weeks before that build up slowly....they give you warning signs like chronic soreness and perhaps pain. This is not always the case though.

If on juice you are at more of a risk as you know. BE SURE to never do explosive movements, no momentum, and to train very strictly.

Dorian yates, who had a lot of tears, gives the above advice

I think the worst offender for pec tears are dips too deep, but more often than not just plain old flat benches.

 

[Themachine01]

last year, right after a prop/deca cycle, I was doing a set of 175 on the flat bench, usually get it for 12 reps, 2nd rep up I slightly tore my right pec. painful as shit and couldnt lift for 3 months. there was warning signs before, brief sharp pains weeks before, but it wasnt a heavy weight. it feels good now and im back up to where I should be but im very very careful when benching, it still tweeks every now and then, scares the shit out of me.

 

[FlexBailey]

I had my pec tendon re-attached surgically after 1.5 years of it being completely off the bone. I tore it doing barbell declines with 405.
Now that I look back it happened simply because of overtraining and going too heavy one day. Major Pec tears don't happen with light weights like somebody mentioned in this thread. They happen with excessive stress on the pec built up usually over time..Micro-Tears are what leads to major tears. If you don't give the pec time to heal in between workouts you risk damaging the pec furthur. Which is the reason you should cycle heavy moderate and light chest days. Take it from me.
It's been about about 1.5 years SINCE my surgery and my pec isn't the same. I won't even perform any flat exercises anymore. I stick to incline smith and incline dumbells and hammer strength machines. I've gotten maybe 70% of my strength back, maybe a little more. I've built my pec up somewhat but it isn't as big as it used to be. Everytime I do chest I get nervous as anything because I'm afraid to tear it again.
Right now i'm 6 weeks out from a show..possibly the last show I ever do. The first show since my injury. I was a young guy when I tore my pec originally..21 years old and undefeated in 3 shows and had barely even started to scrap the juice. I had so much potential it pains me to even think about it now. All I wanted to do was go pro and there isn't a doubt in my mind I would have with my potential.
Right now I take it a day at a time..I'll do this show and take a good month off from the gym to give my pec some good rest time and see where the road leads after. Other body parts on my body are better than even with the exception of my bad pec. I'll have an idea in 6 weeks to see how it fairs in competition because I have learned that strength and weight don't mean everything in building muscle. Just as long as you can get blood into the area and can contract the muscle you're going to get results. It's just hard on the ego to not lift as heavy.

 

[OMEGA]

to avoid a pec tear I always warm up with dumbell flys

actuall the warm up lead to a couple or real sets of dumbell flys

so I guess what started off as a safety precaution has led to dumbell flys always being first in my chest workouts...the staple if you will

then I find when I go to presses, I can go all aout with out worrying about an injury.

typical workout

1.....dumbells flys 5 sets pyramid in weight.

2.....incline dumbell presses.

3......dips

 

[monkeyballs]

If on juice you are at more of a risk as you know. BE SURE to never do explosive movements, no momentum, and to train very strictly.

I'm an athlete whose bread and butter is explosive movements...cleans, snatches, jump squats,plyos, etc...

Do you really think that these excercises make one more prone to muscular tears? Most of the tears that I've seen have come from heavy static lifts...done explosively. I.E. the bounce bench. Is this what you are refering to, or do you feel that all explosive movements are a recipe for injury? If so, the sport of olympic lifting would be riddled with muscular tears, as almost every competitive athlete is juiced.