When he lifts it, you can clearly see his left bicep, it looks like it detaches halfway up. as he's holding it, he looks at it. drops the weight and you can still see its bulked up undearneath his skin. Looks painful
I know, i tore a calf muscle, luckily not a tendon doing deep calf raises, I made the same face he did when his popped, I was like WTF, i actually thought someone shot me in the back of the leg for the first 5 seconds
@rustybones3115 your telling me i love doing deadllifts but now im not quite sure if i should do this any more, the guy even had good form lifting and it still tore im thinking now eventually mine is going to rip someday too.
How long before you could start doing some decent lifting? I'm already itching to get back. At my best I was repping-out various exercises for super-sets with 88 and 98 pound kettlebells.
@dmk47 Cool man! You are an inspiration. They scheduled me in for surgery this Thursday, but I can also opt for the following week. They are gonna have to use an allograft, however, because my bicep mass is too big and has receeded quite a bit. How bad is the down-time?
about 90% of all bicep tears are from dudes using steroids and not doing enough connective tissue exercises. more often then not its guys that wanna be big shots but in the end are just morons. take this guy for example.
@barbosa973 no no no i didn't say deadlifts are for morons, i'm saying that there are alot of wannabe bigshots out there that go pump themselves full of steroids cause all the elite athletes do, but all the great athletes out there have to do hours and hours of connective tissue strengthening exercises because their tendons can't handle the amount of strength the are building in the short amount of time. so like i said torn biceps are from being stupid on how they juice.
@tkuhns500 actually sorry, are you out of your fucking mind? what do you imagine "hours and hours of connective tissue strengthening" could possibly be? there are no secret exercises
Yikes. no thanks to this mess. I have tendinitis in both bicep tendons and don't do curls/latpulls/rows/pullups/etc. cuz of it. That shit is dehabiliatingly painful. i dont wanna know how a tear feels.
hey man, i just tore my bicep like that about an hour ago sparring at the gym for golden gloves. im freaking out! how long is this injury? should i go get some deca? please help bro!
@cruiserweight77 deca wouldn't reattach a ruptured tendon to the point of insertion. if you do have a complete tear, the only fix is surgical and rehab is around 9-10 months to get back to 100%
@dmk47 Hey man! How's your recovery? I blew my bicep competing in the highest level of submission grappling. I did not do surgery right away because I had complete ROM after the injury, and did not know how bad the tear had been until the MRI revealed a 100% tear! Anyway, a lot of these fools don't know what they are talking about. Although I'm very, very strong (before the injury I could bench press 120lb dumbbells 20X) I have never touched a roid and this thing happened to me.
@PUREGRAPP i'm much stronger now than i was when i woke up on the day of the injury. check out the recent 602# squat and 642# deadlift on my video channel. so the good news is you can get back to 100%. the bad news is you need surgery and it'll take 9-10 months to recover completely.
When some of that adrenaline wears of that's when the pain really sets in. Damn that must have hurt. And the judge should have known when he started feeling his arm. Lol "you didn't finish the lift" I think he knew that hahaha
this is the second video i have watched where it is always the outward facing bicep tears…. this is making me think i should do double over hand from now on.
@muzimuzi Anyway, the biceps are not supposed to participate in the lifting, and the elbow should remain straight. Of course it's better to work them with intensity, so as to be balanced and equally strong everywhere, but only a proper tehnique can prevent injuries.
@idiosyncrazy1980 Well the problem lies that went you do a mixed grip like the guy in the video did. The hand that grips in underhand shortens the bicep. Which in turns partially flexes the bicep. Couple that with the contracted bicep being stretched from forcing a straight arm as you deadlift. Increases the chances of you tearing your tendon. Especially at the heavier weights. Which is what happened here.
@muzimuzi you can help strengthen that tendon, yes. My professor said more than likely this guy was on steroids, and no you don't have to look like Ronnie Coleman to be on roids, and he just didn't feel it. The pain threshold for a biceps tendon tear is extremely high.This is not likely to happen, happens very little to the "norm" of people. Hand position won't matter, alternated is said to actually help with lifts to stabilize the bar.
@spennybird33 i absolutely did feel it, i just had work to do. give your professor a big wet kiss from me and congratulate him on his long distance diagnostic skills. i'm happy to mail him my piss.
@spennybird33 um well i dont know if he was or not. most athlethes use them i dont know how much he was lifting and yea ofcourse not every guy who takes steroids would look like ronnie else you'd have baiscly a few millions of ronnie colemans on earth lol. well i figured you could tear your bicep either way. im using mixed grip but i dont pull really heavy weights assuming this was a 550-600 pull im still in the 400 area so i guess i shouldnt worry yet
@Insanitiii455 an overhand grip will significantly reduce the chances of a biceps tendon rupture; if (as some people feel) it creates a better alignment of your trunk than a mixed grip it may slightly reduce the chances of other types of injuries you can sustain deadlift.
BUT if you're lifting with good technique, you really have nothing to worry about until/unless that weight on the bar gets extreme.
@dmk47 I've personally been working on my hook grip lately so that I can really avoid using a mixed grip. I don't think I've ever had any problems with a mixed grip, yet, but I'd also like to keep it that way. At any rate, I don't really see myself doing 900lb+ pulls in my lifetime so I could probably get away with hook grip for just about anything. Ever tried those?
@dmk47 2 questions: before this injury did you train biceps with bicep curls? did you do arm stretches? i have these questions because i have a theory that injuries like this can be avoided if people train biceps with heavy bicep curls and if they are flexible, specifically in the bicep.
the same thing happen to me lifting a piece of plywood, the funny thing is I do (did) go to the gym and work out, and a simple piece of plywood snapped it. Same thing happen, it burned but really didn't hurt. And did not bruse or swell. It almost felt the same feeling as if you spun your neck to fast and felt a hard burn, it was kinda that same burn. Since then had it repaired and am still in rehab 1 month since surgery. It happens to active middle age men, not just body builders.
It is a matter of degree. You can have a "tear" or a repture or a total seperation where the muscle and attached tendon literally pulls away from the bone. More severe problems require surgery. Cost in US is anywhere from $12-20 thousand, sometimes more and that doesn't cover the after treatment which can take over a year. Moral of the story, don't over lift it isn't worth it.
@willieofroanoke i was living in england when this happened and the entire cost of surgery was paid by the government under nhs. if you have decent insurance in the us you won't pay 20 grand out of pocket. moral of the story, some people are content to be mediocre
@dmk47 meanwhile, others are readily(and foolishly) willing to accept superficially rewarded risk in the often dubious name of "exceptionalism". weightlifting as a personal endeavor being quite dubious indeed. as for your arm...well...it will never be the same...no matter how much you try to convince yourself or others. but at least you're not "mediocre".
@ericj305 why thanks, philosophe, for settling once and for all the question of what values matter in life and what experiences ought to make one happy. while i'd love to get your hierarchical ranking of all human endeavors by relative dubiousness, i will point out that everything you've ever accomplished is meaningless cosmically, in general, and to me in particular.
@ericj305 thank you furthermore, doctor, for your informed diagnosis but as it happens my arm has recovered 100% (apart from a surgical scar, which i love) with absolutely no restrictions on my activity and i'm well over 100% in all three lifts -- over 120% in the case of the deadlift -- of my performance the day of the injury. i'd suggest you and the other medical expert who pronounced my injury "not a complete tear" go out for a beer, but really i don't care as long as you fuck off.
@ericj305 p.s. since you managed to misidentify this sport (it's not weightlifting) it's not exactly shocking that you're unaware of the relatively high occurrence of biceps tendon ruptures in strength athletics and the typically full recovery that follows for most athletes.
Not a Tear he would be screaming like a irl if he had one..with lots o Bleeding afterwords underneath the skin...wanna see tears send me your email I will send you my torn Pec and tricep pics..
@GoodManMag am not saying he's lying but the video don't show much..plus dead lifts may do partial tears not complete tears..cuz I had partial triceps and Teres injuries..they hurt like hell..But I had a complete Pectoralis major tendon torn off..and I still didnt recover from that and almost a year has passed..TEARS SUCK
@GoodManMag of course you can completely tear your biceps tendon in a deadlift. do you know how you can very easily tell it's a complete tear and not a partial tear? because the tendon detaches from the bone and retracts up the arm taking the muscle with it. thanks for the input though doc, you sound like you know what you're talking about and completely believable.
@GoodManMag youtube isn't letting me link a photo of the massive hematoma and internal bleeding from shoulder to wrist that had taken effect within 24 hours after the tendon *completely* ruptured from the bone at the point of insertion -- but it's at imgur, extension u40nk
@GoodManMag but that's beside the point because in the video you can clearly see the tendon rupture within a second of the lift starting -- and just like every other biceps tendon tear during a deadlift that's posted on youtube, i'm not rolling around screaming and crying because unlike you, I'm not a little bitch.
@dmk47 Am Not A Little Bitch either.But do you know tears hurt more than bullets.check it out..again am not disproving anything you said...the video aint much.I do Power Lifting and am 200+ Pounds But Imagine the most powerful Muscle torn slowly as It started to tear midway while i was pushing up then the tendon split from the bone..I had lots o tears and I didnt scream and endured it..but Complete Pectorils hurts as hell..Anyway I hope you a well and fast recovery and back to your game
@GoodManMag That's definitely a tear, I've seen millions of bicep tears, It looks disgusting and you can see the bicep clearly make an unusual movement.
@IceYourPimpHand wanna see a nasty tear check my channel up...I lost alot of weight in the last 6 years..due to different tears in my body..the thing is with this video it doesn't show much..and all I want to say is i want to learn from my mistakes and from others I still have 13 months left to recover..and i will start not from zero..from way below that ..I want to make minimize the risks of injuries..where is the point of separation in this video.. I wanna share experience not skepticism
@GoodManMag No, it did tear you can clearly see as the bar comes off the ground, i played lots of football in college and have seen this happen to one of my team mates during a weight workout, he didnt even notice until someone pointed it out afterwards. Pulling heavy shi.t up gives the body a little adrenalin release, its not wonder the guy in the vid didnt notice it immediately when it occured
@GoodManMag you can actually see the dudes bicep shorten during the lift. Just because somebody isn't rolling around the floor in agony it doesn't mean they haven't injured themselves. I hope the guy is fully recovered now!!
When I did this to my right arm bicep, it didn't hurt like crazy. I was more in shock because I knew I'd need surgery to fix it. Had more pain after the surgery. The injury happens from a tramatic incident of too much weight and suddenly the tendon basically snapps from its connection. I don't believe it's related to steriods. I've never juiced, it was just a bad pull up injury.
@bennybombap No, your arms should be relaxed, and straight. Take notice to what arm the bicep tore on. It was his supinated arm, not his pronated arm. I doubt you'll find a video on youtube of someone tearing a bicep using double pronated/over hand, it is safer. A staggered grip will allow for most people to lift more weight, but puts them into a position where they are more prone to incorporate their bicep and "curl" which is what causing the injury. Both ways are safe when using PROPER FORM!
I heard after tearing a bicep u have lost some permanent strength on bench,Does any1 kno if this is tru? But amazing performance man, it tore early and u gritt ur teeth like a man and finished
@Sleepyhead54 ur biceps job is to flex at the elbow and flex at the shoulder. when you bench you're flexing at the shoulder so i think a bicep tear would affect the bench press
You can hear AND see his left distal bicep tendon tear completely at 0:07. One of the horrifying things about this tendon tear for this kind of lift is that you can quite easily not notice anything has seriously gone wrong and complete the lift! Happens often enough that it is mentioned in many text books. It's a side-effect of using reverse/over-under grip with maximal weights instead of the safer full pronated grip.
have u noticed that those who use their left hand as an under grip in mixed grip r the ones who have torn biceps?
most if not all youtube videos of torn biceps happen to left hand under grip, on the other hand no videos of people who use their right hand as an under grip.
first i thought it's a coincidence or the left hand under grip is more common then i saw most of the top dead lifters use there right hand. can any one explain why?
@ahmadx05 most right-handed lifters find it more comfortable to go underhand with their left hand and overhand with their right. many elite deadlifters have suffered at least one biceps tendon rupture and switch their grip around afterwards. (a few, like me, elect to go strictly hook grip instead.) there is nothing about the left arm that makes it more prone to biceps tendon rupture than the right.
u should not bend your elbows while deadlifting although u need to bend your knees so your legs can help you out my friend
KingKaann 2 days ago
Three weeks after surgery. Two more months and I'll be lifting again.
PUREGRAPP 4 days ago
how to avoid this type of injury?
borgoff55 1 week ago
0:07 damn
llanero89 1 week ago
how can you still flex your arm up when your biceps's tendon is teared off?
PATPRIME 1 week ago
I hate watching this vid.
dt76028 2 weeks ago
You didn't finish the lift.
Sumguy21 2 weeks ago 18
Lmao he doesn't notice it until a guy points to his arm and he's like "holy sh*t where'd my bicep go?!"
santis142 3 weeks ago
When he lifts it, you can clearly see his left bicep, it looks like it detaches halfway up. as he's holding it, he looks at it. drops the weight and you can still see its bulked up undearneath his skin. Looks painful
VInimin1992 3 weeks ago
I know, i tore a calf muscle, luckily not a tendon doing deep calf raises, I made the same face he did when his popped, I was like WTF, i actually thought someone shot me in the back of the leg for the first 5 seconds
rustybones3115 3 weeks ago
I love your nonchalant reaction. Like a true boss.
SomeThingsPwn 3 weeks ago
now im scared to do deadlifts
rustybones3115 3 weeks ago 2
@rustybones3115 your telling me i love doing deadllifts but now im not quite sure if i should do this any more, the guy even had good form lifting and it still tore im thinking now eventually mine is going to rip someday too.
john187a 3 weeks ago
damn that looks extremely painful
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AndyHarglesis 3 weeks ago
How long before you could start doing some decent lifting? I'm already itching to get back. At my best I was repping-out various exercises for super-sets with 88 and 98 pound kettlebells.
PUREGRAPP 4 weeks ago
@PUREGRAPP i was doing 1-armed front squats a week after surgery but you'll need 3-4 months to really use the arm
dmk47 4 weeks ago
@dmk47 Cool man! You are an inspiration. They scheduled me in for surgery this Thursday, but I can also opt for the following week. They are gonna have to use an allograft, however, because my bicep mass is too big and has receeded quite a bit. How bad is the down-time?
PUREGRAPP 3 weeks ago
@PUREGRAPP the down time is fucking horrible. you have to keep reminding yourself of what you're working towards and that you will get better.
dmk47 3 weeks ago
@dmk47 time for you to play football and tear quaterbacks a new asshole my bro
papercut1111f 3 weeks ago
Did you need to get Surgery ?????
awtom8152 4 weeks ago
@awtom8152 tendons don't reattach themselves
dmk47 4 weeks ago 24
about 90% of all bicep tears are from dudes using steroids and not doing enough connective tissue exercises. more often then not its guys that wanna be big shots but in the end are just morons. take this guy for example.
tkuhns500 4 weeks ago
@tkuhns500 [citation needed]
dmk47 4 weeks ago
@tkuhns500 looooooooool this guy is a moron because he was deadlifting? wtf? xD
I do believe that you should not train with this kind grip because of the risk,I would advice to use that grip only in competitions
barbosa973 4 weeks ago
@barbosa973 no no no i didn't say deadlifts are for morons, i'm saying that there are alot of wannabe bigshots out there that go pump themselves full of steroids cause all the elite athletes do, but all the great athletes out there have to do hours and hours of connective tissue strengthening exercises because their tendons can't handle the amount of strength the are building in the short amount of time. so like i said torn biceps are from being stupid on how they juice.
tkuhns500 4 weeks ago
@tkuhns500 actually sorry, are you out of your fucking mind? what do you imagine "hours and hours of connective tissue strengthening" could possibly be? there are no secret exercises
dmk47 4 weeks ago
@0:12 MAN - "WTF???"
MemoPittBull 1 month ago
THATS WHY I LISTEN TO TWINMUSCLEWORKOUT LOL AVOID SNAPPING YA SHIT UP LOL
MemoPittBull 1 month ago
@MemoPittBull I think Im the only one who gets that, LOL!
MistahMondayKnight 1 month ago
@MistahMondayKnight LOL SNAP CITYYY LMAO
MemoPittBull 1 month ago
Heard the fucker snap :O
McL0vable 1 month ago
does it heal over time? or do you need treatment on it?
LegoProbe 1 month ago
OMG YOU CAN EVEN SEE IT BREAKING!!! OMG the moment the bar leaves the floor, you even can hear it too :S
tlast2O12dude 1 month ago
'Bent arm deadlifts suck' Mark Rippetoe
SkizzyMcfrazzlepop 1 month ago
Yikes. no thanks to this mess. I have tendinitis in both bicep tendons and don't do curls/latpulls/rows/pullups/etc. cuz of it. That shit is dehabiliatingly painful. i dont wanna know how a tear feels.
DingusStudley 1 month ago
dang .. would stretching help to prevent this? did your bicep feel tight before the lift? hope recovery went well.
tryandlike 1 month ago
Oh fu*k man that still sucks
Tevibru 1 month ago
Yikes. Did you go hook grip for your next attempt? How much was that BTW?
xjusticex2013x 1 month ago
hey man, i just tore my bicep like that about an hour ago sparring at the gym for golden gloves. im freaking out! how long is this injury? should i go get some deca? please help bro!
cruiserweight77 1 month ago
@cruiserweight77 you would need to go under the knife for a torn bicep
6arba9eman 1 month ago
@cruiserweight77 deca wouldn't reattach a ruptured tendon to the point of insertion. if you do have a complete tear, the only fix is surgical and rehab is around 9-10 months to get back to 100%
dmk47 4 weeks ago
@dmk47 Hey man! How's your recovery? I blew my bicep competing in the highest level of submission grappling. I did not do surgery right away because I had complete ROM after the injury, and did not know how bad the tear had been until the MRI revealed a 100% tear! Anyway, a lot of these fools don't know what they are talking about. Although I'm very, very strong (before the injury I could bench press 120lb dumbbells 20X) I have never touched a roid and this thing happened to me.
PUREGRAPP 4 weeks ago
@PUREGRAPP i'm much stronger now than i was when i woke up on the day of the injury. check out the recent 602# squat and 642# deadlift on my video channel. so the good news is you can get back to 100%. the bad news is you need surgery and it'll take 9-10 months to recover completely.
dmk47 4 weeks ago
Could a good tip be to almost hyper extend the elbows? Or at least try to some extent?
ProcyonAlpha 1 month ago
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
idiosyncrazy1980 1 month ago
id be jacking the deca soon as i got home
The19nor 1 month ago
When some of that adrenaline wears of that's when the pain really sets in. Damn that must have hurt. And the judge should have known when he started feeling his arm. Lol "you didn't finish the lift" I think he knew that hahaha
bkillinsoftly 1 month ago
dude how did you not feel that?
jccarbunkle 1 month ago
@jccarbunkle i felt it.
dmk47 4 weeks ago
this is the second video i have watched where it is always the outward facing bicep tears…. this is making me think i should do double over hand from now on.
dombower 1 month ago
fuck that looked painful
gaychinesekungfu1 1 month ago
might sound like a dum question. but does it help to do heavy curls to minize the risk of tearing the bicep when using mixed grip in deadlift?
muzimuzi 1 month ago
@muzimuzi doubt it would help much; you'll never curl anything approaching deadlift weight.
dmk47 1 month ago
@dmk47 nah i know but i figured maybe curling in the 160-170 zone could make my bicep strong enough to handle 400-500 deadlift with ease
muzimuzi 1 month ago
@muzimuzi Anyway, the biceps are not supposed to participate in the lifting, and the elbow should remain straight. Of course it's better to work them with intensity, so as to be balanced and equally strong everywhere, but only a proper tehnique can prevent injuries.
idiosyncrazy1980 1 month ago
@idiosyncrazy1980 yea but it can occur even with proper technqiue when u use mixed grip. i didnt see you did somthing improper
muzimuzi 1 month ago
@idiosyncrazy1980 Well the problem lies that went you do a mixed grip like the guy in the video did. The hand that grips in underhand shortens the bicep. Which in turns partially flexes the bicep. Couple that with the contracted bicep being stretched from forcing a straight arm as you deadlift. Increases the chances of you tearing your tendon. Especially at the heavier weights. Which is what happened here.
shinjig 1 month ago
@dmk47 wtf with your black fingernails ?
sdfefde 1 month ago
@muzimuzi you can help strengthen that tendon, yes. My professor said more than likely this guy was on steroids, and no you don't have to look like Ronnie Coleman to be on roids, and he just didn't feel it. The pain threshold for a biceps tendon tear is extremely high.This is not likely to happen, happens very little to the "norm" of people. Hand position won't matter, alternated is said to actually help with lifts to stabilize the bar.
spennybird33 1 month ago
@spennybird33 i absolutely did feel it, i just had work to do. give your professor a big wet kiss from me and congratulate him on his long distance diagnostic skills. i'm happy to mail him my piss.
dmk47 4 weeks ago
@spennybird33 um well i dont know if he was or not. most athlethes use them i dont know how much he was lifting and yea ofcourse not every guy who takes steroids would look like ronnie else you'd have baiscly a few millions of ronnie colemans on earth lol. well i figured you could tear your bicep either way. im using mixed grip but i dont pull really heavy weights assuming this was a 550-600 pull im still in the 400 area so i guess i shouldnt worry yet
muzimuzi 3 weeks ago
@dmk47 tore my biceps on tire flips 5 months ago. any advice WRT recovery? how much unilateral work did you do?
brp4h 2 months ago
this is why im afraid to do heavy with underhand=\ i use straps with both overhand grip, u cant tear anything with double overhand rite?
Insanitiii455 2 months ago
@Insanitiii455 Ofcourse you can... double overhand doesnt = no injuries. You could still blow out your back, tear your forearm and bicep muscles...
Skleevan 2 months ago
@Insanitiii455 an overhand grip will significantly reduce the chances of a biceps tendon rupture; if (as some people feel) it creates a better alignment of your trunk than a mixed grip it may slightly reduce the chances of other types of injuries you can sustain deadlift.
BUT if you're lifting with good technique, you really have nothing to worry about until/unless that weight on the bar gets extreme.
dmk47 2 months ago
@dmk47 I've personally been working on my hook grip lately so that I can really avoid using a mixed grip. I don't think I've ever had any problems with a mixed grip, yet, but I'd also like to keep it that way. At any rate, I don't really see myself doing 900lb+ pulls in my lifetime so I could probably get away with hook grip for just about anything. Ever tried those?
floppyspatula 1 month ago
i love deadlifting but now i'm freaked out
jesseonly 2 months ago
@jesseonly relax
dmk47 2 months ago
Always happens when they have too much weight on their underhand side, he didn't take enough time to get an even stance and grip.
FactoryClosure 2 months ago
@FactoryClosure you have no idea what you're talking about
dmk47 2 months ago 10
it looks like he didnt even notice it
960608UF 2 months ago
i bet he wanted to kill that fuck "no lift...you didnt finish the lift" it looked perfectly fine to me
krb0123 2 months ago
How can i prevent this kinda injury?
KalasjGaming 2 months ago
what's the cause? is it too much pulling with the arms?
AvishekDrops 2 months ago in playlist More videos from dmk47
Did you see the look in his face when he discovered a change of location in his bicep muscle?
JesseWorld1000 2 months ago
... Ow.
Zack147DK 2 months ago
Ouch, man! That had to be bad!
bradleycpttd 2 months ago
Disregard tear, acquire FORM!!!!!
Nguyen47150 3 months ago
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krb0123 3 months ago
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conz132 3 months ago
@dmk47 2 questions: before this injury did you train biceps with bicep curls? did you do arm stretches? i have these questions because i have a theory that injuries like this can be avoided if people train biceps with heavy bicep curls and if they are flexible, specifically in the bicep.
lovesgibson 3 months ago
The odd thing is it seems like its always the LEFT arm. Every vid I see or pic, I have not seen a right arm tear. wierd
sammy60164 3 months ago
@sammy60164 *cough* underhand grip
bambarby 3 months ago
@sammy60164 it's the side you take an underhand grip on; people who grip right hand under can tear their right biceps tendon
dmk47 2 months ago
@sammy60164 its always in the underhand grip
bscutajar 2 months ago
@sammy60164 its usually the side that has the palm facing upward, supinated
brraatt 2 months ago
the same thing happen to me lifting a piece of plywood, the funny thing is I do (did) go to the gym and work out, and a simple piece of plywood snapped it. Same thing happen, it burned but really didn't hurt. And did not bruse or swell. It almost felt the same feeling as if you spun your neck to fast and felt a hard burn, it was kinda that same burn. Since then had it repaired and am still in rehab 1 month since surgery. It happens to active middle age men, not just body builders.
sammy60164 3 months ago
It is a matter of degree. You can have a "tear" or a repture or a total seperation where the muscle and attached tendon literally pulls away from the bone. More severe problems require surgery. Cost in US is anywhere from $12-20 thousand, sometimes more and that doesn't cover the after treatment which can take over a year. Moral of the story, don't over lift it isn't worth it.
willieofroanoke 3 months ago
@willieofroanoke i was living in england when this happened and the entire cost of surgery was paid by the government under nhs. if you have decent insurance in the us you won't pay 20 grand out of pocket. moral of the story, some people are content to be mediocre
dmk47 2 months ago 5
@dmk47 "some people are content to be mediocre"
had to quote it its motivational purposes.
duke3oh8 2 months ago
@dmk47 meanwhile, others are readily(and foolishly) willing to accept superficially rewarded risk in the often dubious name of "exceptionalism". weightlifting as a personal endeavor being quite dubious indeed. as for your arm...well...it will never be the same...no matter how much you try to convince yourself or others. but at least you're not "mediocre".
ericj305 2 months ago
@ericj305 why thanks, philosophe, for settling once and for all the question of what values matter in life and what experiences ought to make one happy. while i'd love to get your hierarchical ranking of all human endeavors by relative dubiousness, i will point out that everything you've ever accomplished is meaningless cosmically, in general, and to me in particular.
dmk47 2 months ago
@ericj305 thank you furthermore, doctor, for your informed diagnosis but as it happens my arm has recovered 100% (apart from a surgical scar, which i love) with absolutely no restrictions on my activity and i'm well over 100% in all three lifts -- over 120% in the case of the deadlift -- of my performance the day of the injury. i'd suggest you and the other medical expert who pronounced my injury "not a complete tear" go out for a beer, but really i don't care as long as you fuck off.
dmk47 2 months ago
@ericj305 p.s. since you managed to misidentify this sport (it's not weightlifting) it's not exactly shocking that you're unaware of the relatively high occurrence of biceps tendon ruptures in strength athletics and the typically full recovery that follows for most athletes.
dmk47 2 months ago
@ericj305 eric, love, do you not understand what "fuck off" means? habla usted ingles? i don't have the time or inclination
dmk47 2 months ago
but he had arms completely extended was that supposed to happen?
kwstas67 3 months ago
Not a Tear he would be screaming like a irl if he had one..with lots o Bleeding afterwords underneath the skin...wanna see tears send me your email I will send you my torn Pec and tricep pics..
GoodManMag 4 months ago
@GoodManMag am not saying he's lying but the video don't show much..plus dead lifts may do partial tears not complete tears..cuz I had partial triceps and Teres injuries..they hurt like hell..But I had a complete Pectoralis major tendon torn off..and I still didnt recover from that and almost a year has passed..TEARS SUCK
GoodManMag 4 months ago
@GoodManMag of course you can completely tear your biceps tendon in a deadlift. do you know how you can very easily tell it's a complete tear and not a partial tear? because the tendon detaches from the bone and retracts up the arm taking the muscle with it. thanks for the input though doc, you sound like you know what you're talking about and completely believable.
dmk47 4 months ago
@dmk47 put the link but put spaces between every letter i wanna see the pic
sdfefde 2 months ago
@GoodManMag youtube isn't letting me link a photo of the massive hematoma and internal bleeding from shoulder to wrist that had taken effect within 24 hours after the tendon *completely* ruptured from the bone at the point of insertion -- but it's at imgur, extension u40nk
dmk47 4 months ago
@GoodManMag but that's beside the point because in the video you can clearly see the tendon rupture within a second of the lift starting -- and just like every other biceps tendon tear during a deadlift that's posted on youtube, i'm not rolling around screaming and crying because unlike you, I'm not a little bitch.
dmk47 4 months ago
@dmk47 Am Not A Little Bitch either.But do you know tears hurt more than bullets.check it out..again am not disproving anything you said...the video aint much.I do Power Lifting and am 200+ Pounds But Imagine the most powerful Muscle torn slowly as It started to tear midway while i was pushing up then the tendon split from the bone..I had lots o tears and I didnt scream and endured it..but Complete Pectorils hurts as hell..Anyway I hope you a well and fast recovery and back to your game
GoodManMag 4 months ago
@GoodManMag That's definitely a tear, I've seen millions of bicep tears, It looks disgusting and you can see the bicep clearly make an unusual movement.
IceYourPimpHand 4 months ago
@IceYourPimpHand wanna see a nasty tear check my channel up...I lost alot of weight in the last 6 years..due to different tears in my body..the thing is with this video it doesn't show much..and all I want to say is i want to learn from my mistakes and from others I still have 13 months left to recover..and i will start not from zero..from way below that ..I want to make minimize the risks of injuries..where is the point of separation in this video.. I wanna share experience not skepticism
GoodManMag 4 months ago
@GoodManMag No, it did tear you can clearly see as the bar comes off the ground, i played lots of football in college and have seen this happen to one of my team mates during a weight workout, he didnt even notice until someone pointed it out afterwards. Pulling heavy shi.t up gives the body a little adrenalin release, its not wonder the guy in the vid didnt notice it immediately when it occured
Ironlifeove 3 months ago
@GoodManMag you can actually see the dudes bicep shorten during the lift. Just because somebody isn't rolling around the floor in agony it doesn't mean they haven't injured themselves. I hope the guy is fully recovered now!!
needabloodyname 2 months ago
When I did this to my right arm bicep, it didn't hurt like crazy. I was more in shock because I knew I'd need surgery to fix it. Had more pain after the surgery. The injury happens from a tramatic incident of too much weight and suddenly the tendon basically snapps from its connection. I don't believe it's related to steriods. I've never juiced, it was just a bad pull up injury.
mohottie30 4 months ago
When you perform a deadlift, are you supposed to lock out your triceps to prevent using the biceps at all in the deadlift????
bennybombap 4 months ago
@bennybombap No, your arms should be relaxed, and straight. Take notice to what arm the bicep tore on. It was his supinated arm, not his pronated arm. I doubt you'll find a video on youtube of someone tearing a bicep using double pronated/over hand, it is safer. A staggered grip will allow for most people to lift more weight, but puts them into a position where they are more prone to incorporate their bicep and "curl" which is what causing the injury. Both ways are safe when using PROPER FORM!
MickDurshh 4 months ago
@MickDurshh Yes, proper form is the key to success haaha
bennybombap 2 months ago
damn bro huge lift here.. what was your weight/height/age and how much was that? glad to hear your injury recovered
SmexyPC 4 months ago
Isn't that supposed to be painful as hell? Best pokerface ever.
TheMightyLu 4 months ago
Hey man, i'm gonna let you finish but...you didn't finish the lift.
Smexyyellow 4 months ago
omg that looked so weird
TheRozza333 4 months ago
Jesus it tore at 7 seconds and you still continued
slimjim88 4 months ago
How do you prevent tears? Do you prevent it by building up your body?
shadowknight132 4 months ago
fuck that old piece of shit faggot
"you didnt' finish the lift" with his 97 year old voice
Riiivinn 4 months ago
gross you actually see it pop
Sha1gon 4 months ago
To lift that weight in perfect form and not even flinch after sustaining that injury, your a fucking monster. Inspirational toughness mate
life2lifele55 5 months ago
i've seen a lot of shit on the internet, and this is the only thing that has made me cringe so far...
that looks fucking horrible
Chopduel 5 months ago
this makes me cringe more than seeing arms and legs being broken
TrinityRewind 5 months ago
Haha 'What the'
GiveMeAcooky 5 months ago
I was bowling when it happend to me ! needless to say the ball ended in the gutter .
ct5006360 5 months ago
That's crazy man didn't even flinch
PushYourLimitsATX 5 months ago
Damn it tore and he still kept goin but I like his reaction lol
Nexumbiker110 5 months ago
ouch man how was recovery?
jakegiles2 5 months ago
@jakegiles2 took about 9 months to get back to 100%, but now i'm a lot stronger than at the time of the injury
dmk47 5 months ago
@dmk47 this 230kg was easy as shit :D
sdfefde 5 months ago
@jakegiles2 took about 9 months to get back to 100%, but now i'm a lot stronger than at the time of the injury
dmk47 5 months ago 10
@dmk47 i didnt understand what happened in this video. can u explain to me pls?
TheGraveDiggerZ 1 month ago
@TheGraveDiggerZ my left biceps tendon ruptured from its insertion at the forearm and retracted up my arm, pulling the muscle with it.
dmk47 4 weeks ago
OWW!!!
Vdjperks 6 months ago
i love how he tore it right away and still finished the lift, awesome man, your a true iron warrior
HanstheDestroyer215 6 months ago
did you have to go through surgery? it looks so painful man.
asianstrength 6 months ago
I heard after tearing a bicep u have lost some permanent strength on bench,Does any1 kno if this is tru? But amazing performance man, it tore early and u gritt ur teeth like a man and finished
danksweettooth 6 months ago
@danksweettooth i dont see how a bicep tear would affect benching, if anything it would be very minimal
Sleepyhead54 6 months ago
@Sleepyhead54 Actually, it would affect benching. Biceps helps to stabilize your arms when doing bench presses.
derbigpr500 6 months ago
@Sleepyhead54 ur biceps job is to flex at the elbow and flex at the shoulder. when you bench you're flexing at the shoulder so i think a bicep tear would affect the bench press
tumadre420pm 6 months ago
@danksweettooth of course it would affect the bench press. do your hamstrings play a role in squatting?
lovesgibson 3 months ago
it least he took the pain like a man lol
kingcharelsyoung29 6 months ago
he snapped his shit up!
Mr3MIN3M7 6 months ago
You can hear AND see his left distal bicep tendon tear completely at 0:07. One of the horrifying things about this tendon tear for this kind of lift is that you can quite easily not notice anything has seriously gone wrong and complete the lift! Happens often enough that it is mentioned in many text books. It's a side-effect of using reverse/over-under grip with maximal weights instead of the safer full pronated grip.
utubesqueeze 7 months ago
:07 you can see it
pacifiedfools 7 months ago
you can actually hear it pop
sashisruski 7 months ago
ur shit
SonyCamry 7 months ago
nice weight but ive noticed mainly small people get bicep tears due to haveing thinner bones and frames why strongmen are the real lifters
Stoksie01 7 months ago 2
@Stoksie01 a) do you have any idea how common biceps tears are in strongman? b) what do you weigh and what do you lift?
dmk47 7 months ago 21
@dmk47 ignore him he is full of shit bicep tear is the most commen thing i have heard of
xXJeReMiAhXx99 6 months ago
@dmk47 bicep tears are common as a result of gear (e.g steroids)
freedomsoldier187 4 months ago
@freedomsoldier187 bicep tears happen because the arm isn't perfectly straight while the palms face away from the body, not from steroids.
PWDr93 4 months ago
@freedomsoldier187 ok sports doctor, lol
freedomsoldier187 4 months ago
@Stoksie01 your a fucking dumbshit
sdfefde 7 months ago
Like a BAWS
hovedmongo 7 months ago
How are you now?
blogJM 7 months ago
How long did this take to heal mate, were you out of action for long?
lifeshort 7 months ago
have u noticed that those who use their left hand as an under grip in mixed grip r the ones who have torn biceps?
most if not all youtube videos of torn biceps happen to left hand under grip, on the other hand no videos of people who use their right hand as an under grip.
first i thought it's a coincidence or the left hand under grip is more common then i saw most of the top dead lifters use there right hand. can any one explain why?
ahmadx05 8 months ago
@ahmadx05 most right-handed lifters find it more comfortable to go underhand with their left hand and overhand with their right. many elite deadlifters have suffered at least one biceps tendon rupture and switch their grip around afterwards. (a few, like me, elect to go strictly hook grip instead.) there is nothing about the left arm that makes it more prone to biceps tendon rupture than the right.
dmk47 8 months ago
look at 7 seconds. u can see his left bicep tear. ouch.
davetrace123 8 months ago
i dont think its even possible for me to tear my bicep. i always lift so hard but i never get injured
GAKRAC 8 months ago
@GAKRAC how old are you?
dmk47 8 months ago
@dmk47 im 17 years old
GAKRAC 8 months ago
@GAKRAC lift hard -- and i mean really fucking hard -- for 10 years and then we'll go over your injury history
dmk47 8 months ago
what exactly did it feel like?
fistfight95 8 months ago
@fistfight95 it felt like my tendon ripped off the bone and retracted up my arm. no pain until the day after, however.
dmk47 8 months ago
@dmk47 fucking hell man!
fistfight95 7 months ago
this is why i only lift 3 to 4 a week
AngrySwampManStudios 8 months ago
@AngrySwampManStudios really don't see the relevance
dmk47 8 months ago 26
@dmk47 ouch that's brutal mate, how was recovery?
jakegiles2 6 months ago
work on your dam legs
onesnowfall 8 months ago
alright, follow up question, so I standard deadlift my bodyweight (15