Torn Biceps

[Alessandro Mainente]

yesterday i saw by chance a video on youtube about Blain Wilson who broken his biceps tendon during a competition.

My question is only a curiositty...what can be the reason of this injury at this high level? poor preparation? bad warm up?

 

in the past when i've talked to yuri chechi he said that he was feeling pain for a long time before the rupture of his biceps during inverted cross movement. i thougth that at those level the tendons preparation is higher that the skills they are performing

[Joshua Naterman]

It is very, very, very important to keep something in mind: These injuries often develop slowly over many months and sometimes years.

 

As you get older, you have to keep something in mind: Your tissues become less and less elastic. This makes them stiffer springs. That means that you have higher peak forces for any movement, so when you're 20 and doing a rings swing, for example, you have a lower peak force IN THE TISSUE ITSELF than you do when you're 30.

 

Higher peak force means more strain per repetition, and without carefully controlling the volume you will slowly build up injuries.

 

You do get to a point where you have to lower the volume on high stress maneuvers to 1-2x per week and do higher volume light work the rest of the time to maintain the tissues.

 

I do not believe this is a common practice. In a competitive setting, where perfect execution into and out of multiple skills is required for success, you kind of automatically have over-use built in.

 

In my opinion, the future of athletics will hinge on the understanding and acceptance of energy-based recovery methods. Hormones are illegal, and always will be. Nutrition is fairly well understood, and I don't think there's much room for improvement in this particular area (nutrition for tissue recovery)... but infrared light and DC electricity will never be illegal.

 

Because of this set of facts, I think that, at some point, there will be a number of specific recovery options for athletes to use at the highest levels. I think this is a long, long way from becoming standard practice but I think that it will be just that at some point in the future.

 

For our purposes, we can go easier on our joints. Ultra high-level competition is typically detrimental to physical health because you are always pushing limits, and pushing limits is when tissues fail.

 

The trick is to learn how to peak, and how to protect the connective tissues and joints in the off-season so that you recover from the injuries you have developed, but do not yet feel, during that time.

[alec_ar]

Anybody can be injured at any level, that's the scary thing. Chechi's was unfortunate because, correct me if I'm wrong but I heard his tear happened during his prime, and that after he healed he just simply couldn't reach the level he was at before...

When it comes to connective tissue, I guess the take home message for people like us, not pro athletes, is to take things extra slow. Since we don't have as much sensory perception in our joints, damage and wear can occur without us knowing. Personally, my GST program tends to be SA strength heavy, so I always try to make sure to give myself extra recovery time, even if I don't feel at all sore in my connective tissue.

[Alessandro Mainente]

was in 1998 during the preparation for competitions and future olympics games and yes of course chechi after the injury returned to training but some elements at high bar/pommel where simply impossible. he was force to eliminate movements as inverted cross but really his recovery for athene 2004 was insane..

 

thanks joshua for the xaplanation!

[alec_ar]

That's a respectable mark of a true Olympian. O.O

 

Hopefully Danny Rodrigues has it in him....