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the jurogan experience you uh you recovered from surgery huh what did you have done dude i've had a [ __ ] year yeah um so uh just over a year ago i ruptured my tricep on my left arm i was attempting the log press world record and what is the world record so the show was to attempt the world record um i failed at 485 pounds which would have been a new american record that's when my tricep decided to you know crap out so what did it do like separate from the bone oh no it like my tendon exploded so typically like when a tendon tears it's kind of like a piece of paper throw a couple of stitches in it and then you know anchor it into the bone the doctor first thing he said when i woke up was so when i opened up your arm i literally had to take a step back and rethink everything i was going to do because it was that much worse but didn't he have an mri to go by yeah but like so the mri it showed that it was torn but he didn't know to like what extent and when he got in there he realized that literally he said it looked like a firecracker had gone off in my tendon so it took 14 sutures to put my tendon back together into something he could even attach to my elbow and then another four anchors into my elbow that he had to drill in and what was the recovery like i mean i still can't straighten my arm out all the way oh that's about us and i got like this really cute dimple now oh wow that's normal nasty scar are you gonna put like a tattoo on it make it like a snake that's what i'm thinking yeah i mean i think i feel like a snake is too cliche maybe it's a fuse that could be it for your forearm and my bomb ass for him my husband goes you should make it a sperm i was like oh it's like we could just not do that because like you know there's like no need how many people have [ __ ] sperm tattooed on their body that might be like the least tattooed thing ever it might be yeah i mean i'm gay and i don't even want a sperm tattoo it's probably a girl like sad girls you know the ones that definitely have daddy
issues oh yeah yeah so the thing explodes and what is it when it does explode like what does it look like on your arm does it pull up so yeah there was some there was some recoiling going on and literally like he said there was just like tendon fragments like strewn about fragments yeah literally like a bomb yeah is that just because the weight of the log yeah i mean when you're trying to press 485 pounds overhead and your body says [ __ ] no it just goes what do you weigh about 240 280 280. yeah so that's yeah that's 200 pounds over my body weight yeah yeah that's a lot of weight yeah so the rehab is going well for that um and then like is this you doing it oh yeah this is when it blows out no so this is this is when i actually broke the record so i had already had the american record at this point um and then got the chance so this was like all coved times so we did like virtual record breakers so is the judge such an attention horde uh he was in lithuania for this oh okay kind of looks like a white supremacist there though yeah it's gone siege highland so yeah that was 475 so much weight now when they do the logs like did they put weight inside the log oh and the ends of the lock yeah yeah so the log itself weighs like i think that weighed like 160 pounds or so and then we had to add 25s and stuff to the end of it to get it to the contest there's something very primal about lifting a [ __ ] log too right i mean that's the sport of strong man right like we lift stones and logs and like carry [ __ ] on our back like that's just what the sport is yeah and so the elbow just totally shut the bed and how long did it take before you could lift again so i was like back in the gym within like two weeks doing lower body stuff but the biggest the hardest part was like getting range of motion back like trying to flex my elbow again because when they did the surgery my arm was bent at 90 degrees so that was a pretty comfortable position but getting it to straighten or getting it to bend all the way was horrible do they anticipate you'll ever get full range of motion
it's been a year so so here's the weird thing nobody can figure this out if i'm not if i'm just here try to raise my arm that's as much as i get but if i'm pressing like if i'm bench pressing or overhead pressing i can get to full extension press this cup well i think it might be too light [Laughter] i can't pretend this is where i get hurt oh this is where it blows out yeah you'll see that you've got the same [ __ ] hitler yeah same dude and there it goes oh jesus christ oh yeah and like you know i'm i'm a certified athletic trainer like have a master's degree in sports medicine so like i legit knew right away what had happened and my husband comes over to me he's like what's wrong i was like i just tore my tricep he's like no you didn't i was like nah i totally did oh but you didn't think it was as bad as it was i mean i knew it was torn but like i didn't yeah i didn't think it was exploding to that level now what kind of therapy do you do for something like that once they reattach it what's the rehabilitation like um so i mean i i did a lot of everything a lot of manual therapy because like i produce a lot of scar tissue um like even now like my olecranon like the elbow bone doesn't feel like my right one so when you say you produce just my body it naturally produces a lot of scar tissue so that was something we battled actually because i was producing too much scar tissue too early in the rehab process that was actually hindering the range of motion gains that i was supposed to be getting so a lot of like graston um cupping i was i did like dry needling and acupuncture and one of the one of the first times i went the therapist couldn't get the needle through the scar tissue because it was too thick and the best the way i describe it to people is like even with with me like feeling the needles go in it felt like pushing a needle through like rubber that's how it felt for me too like i
felt the stickiness of it do you think that's just because you trained so much so your body's just so used to recovering quickly i think so you must be have you talked to other guys that are strong men do they have like similar situations yeah a lot of us like have had like the scar tissue stuff that goes on and then like i actually bent a few of the acupuncture needles like when they were trying to do them like she pulled them out and was like it was curved i was like oh that's at least it didn't break off watch the entire episode for free only on spotify