Name: Rob Kearney Tore His Tricep Attempting Log Press Record
Uploaded: 2021-10-28T17:18:25.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rob Kearney Tore His Tricep Attempting Log Press Record' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rob Kearney Tore His Tricep Attempting Log Press Record' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-28. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience you you recovered from surgery huh what did you
have done dude I've had a shit year yeah so 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 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 gonna do because it was that much worse but didn't you 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 it literally he said it
looked like a firecracker gone off of 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 did 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
good and I got like this really cute dimple now oh wow that's not nasty scar
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 bomb ass for my husband goes you should make it a sperm I was
like oh it's like we could just not do that because I you know there's like no
need how many people have fucking sperm tattooed on their body that might be
like the least tattooed thing 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
like 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 fuck 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 and then like is this you doing it oh yeah
this is when it blows no so this is this is when I actually broke the record so
I
had already had the American record at this point and then got the chance so
this was like all coven time so we did like virtual record breakers so the
judge that's an attention whore he was in Lithuania for this okay kind of looks
like a white supremacist there though yeah it's going see hi
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 eds ends the log yeah yeah so the log itself
weighs like I think that weighed like 160 pounds or so I 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 fucking log too right I mean that's the sport of strongman right yeah
we
lift stones and logs and like carry shit on our back like that's just what the
sport is yeah and so the elbow just totally shit 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 can't pretend this
is
where I get hurt this is where it blows out yeah you'll see that same fucking
Hitler yeah same same dude and there it goes oh Jesus Christ oh yeah and like
you
know 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 no 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
explode 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 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 a just my body like it naturally
produces a lot of scar
tissue so that's 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 train so much so your body's just so used to recovering quickly I think so
yeah 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
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