44 years old 6 year journey

[juggernaught]

Here are a couple pics of my progress from powerlifting to bodybuilding due to injury. About 4 years ago I posted a thread leading to first comp in bodybuilding .I have had my left triceps surgically reattached 2 times, my right tricep reattached once, my l-5/s-1 had a tumor removed and cleaned up but is still ruptured I did not want to add hardware at that point(age 39 pic 335+lbs the week before back surgery age 40 is 10 months later)most recently I had my left shoulder replaced I had the ream and run procedure performed where they removed my humeral head and replaced it with a titanium post and ball, this was done on 12-09-14. Last pic is the day before I turned 44 just a few days shy of the one year anniversary of shoulder replacement body weight 227 . I am 146 days out from my return to competition.**broken link removed**

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[juggernaught]

In the collage pic where I am wearing Captain America shirt I am down to 192 lbs while rehabbing left shoulder.
The bottom two pics are day of first competition and a side by side comparison from start of weight loss to stage pic.



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[Flexpack215]

Wow your looking awesome and your obviously a new kind of beast tearing out triceps like that!

 

[juggernaught]

Nah Flexpack215 I'm just a dumbass that loved to show off how much weight I could push. I didnt ever give my body the breaks it needed when I was younger . Once upon a time I had a raw competition bench of 535lbs and could hit 405 for 14 paused reps now I am excited I got 5x5 @ 335 this week lol


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[jodexq]

Definitely an inspiration. .keep it up my man !!!

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[Dee25]

This is awesome! Nice job!


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[prostock]

that is a hell of a journey bro.. unbelieveable pro

 

[Need4Speed]

Great job ....your look great wow .....

 

[Big Vin]

How did you keep blowing those tri's? I just blew my first one and am 5 weeks post op at 50 years old. Just want to keep everything together and avoid this crap again...too old to keep rehabbing.

 

[juggernaught]

I kept trying to push to much weight.The insertions will never be as strong as before the injuries. The first time I was repping 405 twice a week for 4- sets of 10 reps , the second time I had just got back to 405 for 1 set of 10 and boom again. The last time i blew a try was about 9 years ago while showing someone how to perform lying tri extensions on a decline with 70 lbs lol


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[juggernaught]

This is where I started back in May when Doctor gave me ok to start hitting weights harder again.Second pic is Dec 5

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[j-pet]

IMF juggers?

 

[juggernaught]

IMF juggers?

Had to look up the IMF if it does indeed refer to in my face and you are annoyed with my post simply do not view them, if I m mistaken I apologize .Just trying to keep myself motivated and I am pretty proud of what I have been able to accomplish with everything I have been through but I will refrain from pics in the future.

 

[D2]

thats some impressive gains fm tearing so many muscles. :headbang:

Care to share how different is your current training now as compare to before?

 

[juggernaught]

Before the first ruptured triceps I followed a traditional 5 by 5 rep set program. I would vary the movements doing maybe 2-3 movements for large muscle groups and 2 movements for smaller groups,but would stay roughly in those rep ranges. I would go 8-12 weeks heavy trying to keep momentum moving and keep adding something to the bar even if it was only 2.5 lbs a week. When my progress would stall I would back off and go to a 4 sets 8-10 rep range ...thinking this was giving my joints the break they needed, but even at higher rep range my intensity was through the roof and I was trying to get maximal weight for desired rep ranges.At my strongest I was icing my elbows for an hour every day after training and taking in 1-1.5 grams of ibuprofen a day. This played hell with my stomach of course.
I didn't really adjust training much after first try trying to convince myself I could still get that 600 lb raw bench someday..So I kept at it and once Iwas roughly were I had gotten to hurt previously the other triceps ruptured. At this point I did adjust and started going about 75% of previous weights and started incorporating in a lot of pre exhaust on chest movements before I got to my presses. I eventually ruptured my left triceps again while showing someone a lying tri extension on decline with only 70. Lbs on bar...I chalk this one to having a local doc repairing the first tri where as I went to a great. Sports doc for second (works on the Sacramento Kings players) I had him repair this tri as well and have been very very careful since. I still do pre exhaust for chest and a lot of circuit training these days.


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[wizim]

i have come to the conclusion that im just getting too old to be that guy that stacks on the plates. its taken a few injuries to get there.
a few years back i tore the shit out of my quad in a squatting comp. hit 405 easily. next attempt was 425. at the bottom i thought someone punched me in the leg then i went down. about 1.5 years later i squatted 500lbs...easily. racked it and said "mission accomplished". the most ive squatted since is 405. ill never squat 500 again.

 

[AmM]

Here are a couple pics of my progress from powerlifting to bodybuilding due to injury. About 4 years ago I posted a thread leading to first comp in bodybuilding .I have had my left triceps surgically reattached 2 times, my right tricep reattached once, my l-5/s-1 had a tumor removed and cleaned up but is still ruptured I did not want to add hardware at that point(age 39 pic 335+lbs the week before back surgery age 40 is 10 months later)most recently I had my left shoulder replaced I had the ream and run procedure performed where they removed my humeral head and replaced it with a titanium post and ball, this was done on 12-09-14. Last pic is the day before I turned 44 just a few days shy of the one year anniversary of shoulder replacement body weight 227 . I am 146 days out from my return to competition.**broken link removed**

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Incredible transformation brotha! To get in that condition healthy is one thing but overcoming all those injuries says a lot! Kudos man Big Time!!!

 

[camfo000]

you look so great! good job bro!

 

[elite11]

Incredible journey bro. Looking good. Keep at it