Originally Posted by
elVarouza
More bad news today. Just tore my right hamstring.
06/16/15 Tuesday
Hand has been healing up well enough that the Dr gave me the go ahead to resume full activity. Last Saturday I sumo DLed up to 180kg. Yesterday I low bar squatted 315x5x3.
Today, I worked up to 180kg again on sumo DL. Did 60x5x2, 100x5, 140x2, and it felt great. Bar was moving fast. I was planning to do 180x5, something relatively light. I figured my grip would be the limiting factor. Pulled the first rep about an inch off the ground and felt 1-2 pops in my right hamstring around the knee area. Hurts a lot. I was able to limp out of the gym, change my clothes, and go up and down stairs to leave. Was able to ride my bike home. This all happened about an hour ago and I'm icing now. So far no apparent bruising or swelling but it's early. I'm going to keep track of the size of my leg to get an idea of how bad the swelling is. I can't really feel much tension in my right hamstring with my hand but maybe that's not unexpected. Because I can walk around and go up stairs and such I'm hoping there's no complete tear.
Right now my right thigh, measured around the middle where it hurts the most, with the knee locked, measures 61cm in circumference. The left thigh is also 61cm, so no swelling yet.
One day I'll look back on all this and laugh.