Originally Posted by Kieron

Training chest last night feeling good, built up to my heavy set, lowered the weight down to my chest and as I was pushing it up I felt (and heard) it tear. Easiest way to describe it is a rapid popping sound and felt like frayed rope giving way. I told my spotter to take it and then my arm started to go numb and got pins and needles in my hand. I knew what I had done straight away so that was game over. I'm not normally one for the quacks but I had a restless night last night and read some scare stories on the net last night so I wanted to make sure it was just muscle fibres and not the tendon. Got an appointment this morning and it appears to be fibres so its a matter of resting up and treating it with hot and cold. They only operate if its tendons as the success rate for stitching muscles back together is 50% or less. Takes 4 weeks for the swelling to go down?? If I get a purple tit/shoulder I'll take a pic or two.

I just hope I recover OK and that it doesn't make my chest go deformed. Feels pumped/swollen to hell at the moment and bruised. Like someone has inserted a cricket ball in there.