posted Fri, 05/23/2025 - 08:38
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+ 23 8 months post bicep surgery. Feeling good!
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Bf going down and muscle is packing on nice and clean. I’m not lifting stupidly heavy weights anymore, it’s high reps with a min of 8 (maybe 6 if I’m pushing myself a bit harder) but I generally want to stray away that and really enjoy the feeling of the mind muscle connections, really stretching and squeezing on every rep. I so psyched to share the next 4 months lean bulk. I’ve always had some injury wether it’s my shoulder, arms ir back but I’m literally training pain free for the first time in ages at nearly 43 years old!
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damn beast. looking amazing.
Cheers brother
Yeah Guys - Jimmy isn't lifting Stupidly Heavy weights anymore - he's 'Only benching 405 for 8 reps on the Incline bench' nowadays as he's only 8 months post surgery and is just easing back into things steadily LMFAO!!!!
That’s was a one time thing!! I’m not doing this ego shit! Haha stop stirring the pot!! Ya pest! I’m standing by my statement. I’m not trying to impress anyone but just be pain free and look jacked!! Haha.
But I’ll test the waters every once and a while… ;)
Shoulder pain is jus somethin we need to accept
I’m shoulder pain free now mate! Surgery was a success! I’m praying that it stays this way! Actually, the best I felt in almost a decade. Strength is coming back big time.
Just need to keep up with the new training style I’ve been doing. It’s working.
Looking great brother
Appreciate it bro
Damnnnnnn beast mode! keep up the solid work bro.
Let’s goo!
Excellent profile, there is muscle density and cuts, unlike other sports, bodybuilding improves with age, leaner muscle. you could be that the first exercises are with reps of 6-8 and the rest focus on concentrating blood in the muscle, to avoid future injuries. good job!!!!
I always change it up bro. I like to pre-exhaust. Start of on 15 reps light. Then turn the heat up when I’m warm. Drop sets, supers sets and giant sets. Then I get enough fuel in the tank to throw the 50kg dumbbells up with strict form. I tend to do all my machine assisted and rope pulleys first then move to free weights. But I might change that whole regime up If I feel I want to. Basically, I just do what I feels feels good. I used to to just walk in the gym and start with heavy weights and was getting injured over the last few years as my age and lifestyle just couldn’t take it. This works for me now. Pain-free, packing on quality muscle and feeling good. Too much responsibility to be getting injured these days.. have to leave the ego at home.
Looking amazing! Keep up the great work!
Cheers guys!
Jesus I just turned 45 and am feeling small all of a sudden :(
Oranges! Big mofo!
Haha cheers mate.
Dem some cannons!
Thanks legend
anvilLooking great brother!
Thanks mate
LOOKIN LIKE A BIG CUNT AGAIN BRO!!!!
I know I gotta stop this late night posting shit lol. I’m don’t get any compliments from the Mrs anymore so… (tiny little violin playing)
It happens to us all mate - you'd rather get compliments off 20 men pumped full of testosterone than off your own wifey LMAO
Hahaha so true
Man, you’re looking strong, healthy, and locked in. The bounce back is real…can’t even tell there was an injury. Respect for pushing through. This journey’s full of ups and downs, but overcoming is what sharpens us. Best is yet to come! BTW age is just a number, stay strong, brother man !
Thanks mate. Multiple injuries over the last two years. Feeling good
MASS!!
Ranger3252Looking good I’m 2 months two weeks post op of my second bicep surgery. Just started light strength training last week. Man am I weak AF lol.
Yeah bro it’s hard, takes time, all of a sudden you’ll bounce back stronger!
I'm going through the same shit, coming back from this leg and ankle reconstruction. Shit is hurting my pride for real! Lol! I'm on my second week back and I'm not like super weak, but I'm like 50+ lbs weaker on every movement. Also, my endurance is shit. It'll make you feel bad for sure!
Ranger3252Feels good to be back in the gym. It’s amazing how much atrophy happens when you don’t use your muscles. It’s not a race it’s a marathon my friend. Although I do were a full sleeve on my right arm because it’s so much smaller than my left lol. Two weeks from now I’m going to start heavier training.
Mate - it must be feeling great to be actually training again after so long off!! I bet you got your appetite back and regained the will to live again
Are you able to walk without the crutches now then?
Still working on the appetite part. I fucked myself up. First few weeks of this injury, my wife was forcing me to eat. I just couldn't do it. Not only that, but I couldn't bring myself to even inject my trt for weeks. So I had fucked up my hormones really bad. I'm just now getting resaturated. So things are coming back. I wish the appetite would!
Have you tried THC gummies or something?? That could really help with appetite. My mother had leukaemia and Crohn’s disease, she started on medicinal Gummies and she’s eating and sleeping better. Doesn’t have too much effect on training or growth either.. Not sure about your occupation though. Doesn’t sound like it’s an issue at the moment.?
Yes sir! I been walking without crutches or any assistance for a week and some change now. On my second week back in the gym, I'm in my glory right now Press. I got one hell of a limp but that's ok. I'm working on it. Halfway through my physical therapy already. I'm doing it brother! Thought this would never come. Lol
I am SOOOOOO Happy for you Buddy!!!!!!! At one point you weren't even sure if you were gonna be able to walk again - so this is all brilliant news
Did you just stop pinning the TRT because you were so depressed with it all?
No, actually I was just in so much pain I couldn't do anything. Even after a few weeks after surgery, I couldn't even get into a position to allow a shot. Fucked myself up pretty good between not being able to eat and not doing my trt. I'm good now. Getting my hormones back in place and trying to build my appetite back up.
I didn't think I wouldn't ever be able to walk again. I didn't think it would be for at least a year. But I been fighting this thing brother. I refuse to let it define me. I don't take no for an answer.
Man I didn't actually realise things were THAT bad that you couldn't even do an injection, mind you at the time when this happened and I was full of bronchitis I wasn't registering much lol I had a look at your X-ray again and mate I understand now why they couldn't reattach many parts back together - it looks like your whole ankle shifted to the side 7mm and that broke various parts that would normally connect out to the side?? Plus that long bone was broken in 2 places so yeah very awkward repairing all that.
I just updated the old "down for the count" post with the x-rays. On the new one, circles in blue you will see the whole bottom of the bone was sheared off. If you look below it, you'll see the indentation in the bone that the forks made after it hacked off the end of the bone. You'll see what I mean. Gave me the chills when I saw it Press!
Yeah Jesus man - thats brutal. Split second of tonnes of force on a bone, cringeworthy. Were your toe bones in the foot okay then? None of them got shifted along with the ankle joint?
Oh no.... Every single bone in my foot had to be put back into place. It's like the impact just pulled everything apart, literally. The 2 leg bones that make up the calf, were pulled apart. They had to run screws through to bring them back together. Hard to really explain.
But did you see what I meant with the blue circle? How the bottom of that bone is gone and the bone beneath, where the forks rested and left the indent?
Ohh Fuck Yeah!!!! So the fork has gone down and sliced the back of that top bone off - then gone down into the back of your heel if I am viewing it correctly?
Also yes - looking at the top view of the foot all the toes have shifted big time haven't they, kind of like a zig zag?!!
Yeah, all the toes were reset but they couldn't get them straightened out. I'm stuck with that one. Lol
But with the ankle, it sliced off that piece of the bone at the bottom. It was crumbled into pieces, beyond repair. That piece that's missing is where all the tendons and ligaments used to connect. They had to relocate them, attached with some hardware. That indent on the bone below is where the fork rested on me when it pinned me to the ground. It's not the heel, because the heel is all soft fatty tissue and cartilage. I believe it's a bone from the lower part of the ankle joint itself. Gave me the chills when I actually saw it. Made it make sense to me. Also very surreal..... Still lol
That long bone (fibula) was actually broken in like 3 places and all the breaks were more shattered than broke. Hard to see in the x-rays but there were bones that should've been in the X-ray but they were pretty much gone, dust, beyond repair. It's hard to truly comprehend the scope of how bad it was Press. There were parts of the ankle that are no longer there. They just took the pieces out and made for with what was left. I'm going to go screenshot an X-ray that I want you to see bro. Give me a few. This one game me the chills.
It’s a wonder why they didn’t just give you a full ankle replacement. There was an old woman at rehab who had a completely fkd up ankle and they just replaced it with titanium, etc. It’s crazy what they can do now. I don’t know why they didn’t just replace my shoulder. I’ll be more metal than bone soon.
Just think at some point in the future mate they will invent Robotic arms like Robocop arms and shoulders!! Different Grades of strength and everything. You'll be benching and one end will shoot up no problem and the real arm will be there grinding it out & struggling LMFAO!!!!
Hahahah I’d just get both done at once for symmetry. I’m almost 30% steel already haha.
So does the metal detector at the airport go berserk then when you pass through it??!!