Strained chest...

[Khaine]

Yeeea, big injury week for me...

Anyway, when doing dumbbell presses today, after finishing my first set and fetching the weights for my second set, I felt a pain in my pectorals... Felt like a severe case of DOMS, except that it obviously occurred way too fast...

I was able to finish 5 more sets of flat and incline dumbbell presses, ignoring the pain and breaking my personal record on dumbbell presses (100s for 3 reps)... I assume I didn't pull or tear anything, as that would have prevented me from finishing these sets, so what was this...? A strain or stretch of some sort...? Cramps...?

[Mr VW]

That has happened to me but I wasnt doing chest. I was working legs and I just had to stop. I say you just wait out the pain, if it lasts for more then 3 days or so, just go to your doctor.

[threenorns]

yeah, you hurt something and then broke rule #1: if you're working out and you find yourself saying "OW!", then you STOP IMMEDIATELY and get some ice on it. instead, you compounded damage to what would probably have been a minor strain.

keep off it for at least a week. do NOT work it if it still hurts.

[Khaine]

Yeeea, I wasn't planning on hitting chest again till next friday anyway...

Either way, had typical DOMS on Saturday which was almost gone by Sunday and is now completely absent... No other pain of any sort... Guess I was lucky...