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Originally Posted by hicktown

Wow nice dedication, i wouldnt expect anything less. I was doing heavy precher bb curls three weeks ago. While starting the curl i felt something pop where my arm bends. Its not sore but when i flex it still hurts. wth did i do?

oh boy that's the distal tendon and here is the bad part about that area. the distal tendon is the point where all the strength in the bicep comes from and yes i have a partially torn one myself. you have a couple of options to go with this injury. option 1- is to go to the surgeon and have it fixed up option 2 (the one that i chose because i cant have any time off) is you use a band sleeve and cream at all times when using the arm. you also have to keep and make sure the body never cools down. if you look back through my log i went a year or better with no direct bicep work at all other than some hammers. this is a tendon that you absolutely dont want messed up.
now check to see if you have any indents or the bicep moved up any. if it did it could be a full tear and without a mri you really have no way of knowing. something i learned after i injured it is you never do any heavy weight movements in compromissing situations. full range preacher curls with bb or db also reverse grip bb rows are horrible for tearing this tendon. all these movements are completely gone out of my training. i also now do semi supinated as opposed to fully sup work for back. it makes a huge difference and still trains the muscles you are trying to hit. now would be a good time to stop training bis at all and make sure it is fully healed. i can train without a sleeve or compression band now with no issues at all since it has healed and strengthened back up.

take a look at elitefts for the super heavy duty elbow sleeve and the sling shot compression band and compression band 2.0. thats what i used along with the artic balm cream and keeping a sweat shirt on at all times. mine has held up pretty good for now

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Originally Posted by guns01

oh boy that's the distal tendon and here is the bad part about that area. the distal tendon is the point where all the strength in the bicep comes from and yes i have a partially torn one myself. you have a couple of options to go with this injury. option 1- is to go to the surgeon and have it fixed up option 2 (the one that i chose because i cant have any time off) is you use a band sleeve and cream at all times when using the arm. you also have to keep and make sure the body never cools down. if you look back through my log i went a year or better with no direct bicep work at all other than some hammers. this is a tendon that you absolutely dont want messed up.
now check to see if you have any indents or the bicep moved up any. if it did it could be a full tear and without a mri you really have no way of knowing. something i learned after i injured it is you never do any heavy weight movements in compromissing situations. full range preacher curls with bb or db also reverse grip bb rows are horrible for tearing this tendon. all these movements are completely gone out of my training. i also now do semi supinated as opposed to fully sup work for back. it makes a huge difference and still trains the muscles you are trying to hit. now would be a good time to stop training bis at all and make sure it is fully healed. i can train without a sleeve or compression band now with no issues at all since it has healed and strengthened back up.

take a look at elitefts for the super heavy duty elbow sleeve and the sling shot compression band and compression band 2.0. thats what i used along with the artic balm cream and keeping a sweat shirt on at all times. mine has held up pretty good for now

Dude NOOOOOOO, this is seriously my first real injury but i dont think i did much damage, thankfully i have no pain but im never doing preachers again. Funny thing is on that set in question my girlfriend says babe dont go too heavy and i said fuk that i gotta go heavy to build muscle. My bicep never moved up and the muscle and tendons feel exactly how they felt before, no weird bumps or anything. I did light weight last week just a ton of reps and it felt ok. Ill stay away from heavy weight for awhile, but does that mean that i cant make bicep gains now?

Thanks for the input and sorry to hijack.

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Originally Posted by hicktown

Dude NOOOOOOO, this is seriously my first real injury but i dont think i did much damage, thankfully i have no pain but im never doing preachers again. Funny thing is on that set in question my girlfriend says babe dont go too heavy and i said fuk that i gotta go heavy to build muscle. My bicep never moved up and the muscle and tendons feel exactly how they felt before, no weird bumps or anything. I did light weight last week just a ton of reps and it felt ok. Ill stay away from heavy weight for awhile, but does that mean that i cant make bicep gains now?

Thanks for the input and sorry to hijack.

the bad part about partial tears to the tendon is you will see zero bruising zero denting or deformation at all. you cant tell mine is jacked up and it was torn 95% when i did it and the only way we knew is when i heard it pop i went to the doc the next day and had an mri done. it felt fine, no pain nothing at all. that's the scary part about tendons is their are no real nerves in the area so unless they blow out completely you really dont know.

quick fix i would say is get a sleeve or a band. another good tip is to stop lifting heavy for biceps because their is no need and it only further stresses the tendon that we already beat the piss out of with back haha. you can still grow them bad boys with moderately heavy weight as long as you are getting a good pump. if you arent going to see the doc, i damn sure would leave it alone for a few weeks just to be safe. he also told me absolutely never ever do twisting movements while curling with mine after it was injured. that is a quick way to fully detach a weakened tendon apparently