triceps tendon rupture

[juggernaught]

back in 12-04 I ruptured my left triceps tendon while benching I had had severe tendonitus for over a year in both arms but didnot take enough time off to fully heal. I had it repaired via surgery and was out of the gym for 14 months due to physian restrictions. I got bck into the gym and made great gains towards getting back into shape I had been into powerlifting before my injury previous best raw bench was 535. I slowly increased my bench keeping my reps at 8-10 i got back to 405 for 10 and guess what ? I ruptured my right triceps tendon!!!!!! this was on 10-20-06 Now this time i was able to get a better doctor a sports med have had it reatched and hes allowing me to work out but no direct pressure on right triceps tendon.
So heres my problem I'm getting married in may and want to be in decent shape for honeymoon.i was out of the gym forthree months but now need to go for it but with out damageing my tricep again I can only use 5lbs on right tri this month. Any ideas of a routine I might be able to use?
I am 35 years old 6'tall and weigh 265 lbs (gained 20lbs while out of gym) roughly 20% bf at moment. I am doing a low carb diet with eca stack.any ideas suggestions will be greatly appreciated

 

[Thickneck]

I know what you are going through, I ruptuerd my rt bicep tendon on 10/28/06 and had it reattached on 11/13/06. I went back to the gym in late january. The 1st couple of workouts I just used the machines and did not go to failure. After a week or more I started doing inclines again and they went fine and also shoulder presses. I have not done any heavy back training yet. And for biceps I have moved up really slowly in lbs. And will continue to take back and bicep training real slow. I'm only using 20 lbs- 30 lbs for db curls and 60lbs for ez bar curls. I have not done anything which puts to much strain on the bicep or back , no deads or flyes. Your situation on the other hand is most likely just the opposite cause of the tricep injury. I would say no presses of any kind for awhile. Then slowly get back into those to lifts. SLOWLY. You should be able to do a shitload of machine butterflies to keep so chest size if it doesn't hurt your tricep. You'll will have to go in and see what lifts cause some pain and which don't. Maybe do some front raises for your front delts. Doc said with the tendon repair that I would be able to get all the strength back , and be as good as before the surgery. I would also take a look at your whole routine when you are back into it. Maybe put your body part groupings in a different order to allow more recovery time for your chets and arms. I work everything once every 6 days. Good luck.

 

[juggernaught]

thanks for the input thickneck. I did 10*10 on fly machine for chest today 5*20 side and front laterals for shoulders supersetted single pushdowns and overhead db ext for my left tri and did 5*20 single arm overhead ext with 5lbs for my right .
Im concerned with my back workout though and how much stress it will place on my tri being an auxillary support on lat pull downs chins etc..any ideas?

 

[Thickneck]

I know what you mean , I before have had it feel like my tricep is gonna rip while doing pulldowns. Try some different handles but be careful. I think you should still be able to do some heavy bent-rows, just try different things that you can do pain free and stick to them till your tricep is stronger . Everyone that I have talked to that has blown out their pec or tricep , did it flat benching. Did you do alot of heavy skull crushers ?

 

[juggernaught]

heavy skulls 205, over head 2 handed db ext 175, and dips with a 175 lb db where my bread and butter tricep movements for mass lol

 

[Thickneck]

How is your training going now ? R u doing any presses yet.

 

[jsupstarz]

Tendons are the worst thing ever invented[)]

 

[Thickneck]

Yeah we should have been made with lat pulldown cables instead of tendons.[)]

 

[jsupstarz]

ThAT WOULD BE IDEAL