Any thoughts on this?

[Bruce Dierl]

 

What are your thoughts on this?

[Keilani Gutierrez]

mind my deloads, always move on when form is perfect and never try stuff on the rings, especially with fatigued muscles. 

[Bruce Dierl]

Here is a description (on facebook) with regards to the video he made:

https://www.facebook.com/johnny.sapinoso/posts/10204401046320050

 

'A bit of backstory:

I was working for a little over a month toward the pelican with a volume that might make Ivan Abadjiev smile. At the same time I was also researching some advanced one arm elements - I wouldn’t categorize them as dangerous and over my head but as standard operation and carrying some inherent risk. Some combination of this and a little bit of bad luck almost exactly a year ago and snap. I won’t be writing any books about how training pelicans, high volume, or researching advanced one arm elements should be avoided. If you play seriously you will probably get injured at some point. Playing is RISKY, but NOT playing is DANGEROUS to my well-being.

My memory of the injury is in a bit of a time warp - during one set I heard what I thought was the cable attaching the rings to the ceiling snap, my vision went a little blurry and when I landed on the floor I felt a snap in my arm / chest and thought I had torn the short head of the bicep. Watching the video over it’s interesting to try to fit all of this thought process into the few seconds it happened.

A few things:

R.I.C.E. protocol is not a useful rehab technique but it sounds a lot like my preferred carb up technique.

When you work toward a goal with the same (or greater) urgency that you do when you want to avoid something that repulses you - you’ll be amazed at how fast you progress. I can’t imagine someone with a severe phobia for spiders tolerating a spider on their arm for more than a few seconds - but I see these same people with ‘goals’ that they tolerate leaving unattended all day for weeks. In the beginning I walked my hand up and down a wall for hours straight, each time trying to flirt more with full overhead range, until overhead range was restored. The first week my morning ritual was spending hours in a foot supported hang testing the waters toward a passive hang until I could do it and do it without this warm up ritual.

I’m sure the left arm will never be as strong as it could have been but I’m not a strength specialist so I’m not too worried. Anyway a single rep of OAC is probably already overkill for most applications. I currently don’t invest much time in strength training - it’s not what I need to be a better mover, I need more movement.

Push, pull, pectoralis major, rupture schrumpture - useful concepts but not always black and white or relevant all the time. ‘Logic' would say that a torn pec would lead to a deficiency in push and not so much pull, but things are much more complex than we understand. A hanging leg raise was completely impossible for the first month and I still have difficulty with one arm pull into meat hook - but was able to do a planche push up almost as soon as I could do a regular push up on the floor again and if you were wondering about the silly hair in my OAC clip it was because I was supersetting behind the neck strict military press with BW+ 10 lbs.

When she says ‘let me film this one, you’ll appreciate it later’, she might be right. Of course the depressed moments weren’t filmed, because they weren’t for public consumption. More depressing than the moments I realized I had to start with ring rows and do my first ring supports fully foot supported were the moments I tried to goof off and push Rachel out of a HS when she wasn’t looking and couldn’t because it was painful, walking my hand up a rail to grab an overhead bar instead of jumping up and grabbing it, or when I went to open a jar and wasn’t able to. Loss of basic functions that I had taken for granted made me feel disabled which is an incomparably worse feeling than not being able to do a muscle up.'