Drunk - tick
Arm wrestle challenge - tick
For money - tick
Young lad - tick
Well beaten - tick
Bicep tendon, torn from the bone, not actually doing anything apart from recoiling half way up my upper arm, no sign of a bicep anymore, just a spongy mess, needing an operation to re-attach, time off work/gym/bike - tick
Idiot - tick
Won't be doing that again!
Was it the same young lad as climbed up your forks?
Ha - no!
**** me thats awful
Hope it wasn't my lad, he's got a habit of breaking people arm wrestling !
Ewe yuk.
How could this happen?
I thought you were buff as ****, TAFKASTR?
I just don't know what to believe now....there is no God 🙁
P.S Sounds awful. Get well soon.
I binned it on the Monsal trail today, wheelieing and showing off to the kids with a heavy rucksack that took me backwards as i shifted up clipped in. I wasn't drunk just very stupid.
However, I've decided i'm going to go with flats, silver lining to a painful spill.
Hope you mend soon.
Nasty. I did the same injury in 2010 at the gym on the preacher bench. Was out for over a year. Arm is still 50% weaker compared to the left one.
Incidentally I also broke the same arm 15 years ago arm wrestling..
I too am an idiot!
Arm wrestling is never a good idea. I gave my mates a competition when halfcut and my arms killed for months.
I've hurt myself before - that was beating a pub full of blokes of varying size.
Thought I was cock of the town last night though and got destroyed by someone smaller and younger than me 🙁
I thought injuries obtained while drunk don't actually count? And that everything just returns to normal when you sober up? No?
I thought that too binners and genuinely thought I'd awake this morning to find it all ok. Passed out last night, woke this morning, remembered what had happened, checked - still borked! 🙁
There's a secret technique to arm wrestling. I've watched mate whose a little guy challenge the bouncers in a pub for the shirts off their backs. He left with 3 shirts that didn't fit him.
My technique has it nailed 90% of the time - wrist locked, pull towards, not sideways - the other 10% I'm drunk 🙁
Update - 8 months on. Had the op within 3 weeks - 3" scar across my forearm where the tendon was re-attached. Was back at work in October on supposedly light duties (self-employed, so kudos to my main customer for giving me work) although the duties weren't that light! Didn't go to the gym, or do any biking until after Christmas (and ate a load of crap - put on over a stone), but been back at it for a few months now. Biking is fine, gym work still a little weak - curling 16kg each arm instead of 20/22kg. Lost over half a stone and getting close to where I want to be for summer.
Nasty. I did the same injury in 2010 at the gym on the preacher bench. Was out for over a year. Arm is still 50% weaker compared to the left one.
Incidentally I also broke the same arm 15 years ago arm wrestling..
I too am an idiot!
Dunno how your physio regime went on, but that seems slow progress - I'd heard other people say you never get your full strength back, but I'm hoping to be there in a few months - right bicep is about an inch shorter than the left though.
get well
good friend of mine had this happen with his hamstring (hillwalking not wresting)- op done late as misdiagnosed as ligament not muscle - a very long recovery but the sort who will stick at what ever training need to do to get to a target - got 100% recovery even improved his alp d'huez time and back to high grade rock climbing OK
I and gave my mate a spiral fracture up his humerous about eight years ago, using your technique. He was winning but the pub table was covered in beer, elbows were sliding around - CRACK!
The fracture was so complex, it now has a name, dubbed
by the surgeon 🙁