Old wives tales

My training has been going well recently. To keep the body growing, I've review my training routine, as I've had the same routine for over 10 weeks, and was we all know variety is the spice of muscle.

So in this new routine I tried dips. I haven't done dips for a number of years, primarily because I've had a weak shoulder. I cannot tell you how chuffed I was, when I attempted dips and found I could do very strict dips for more than one rep :)

But we all know pride becomes before a fall, and my fall came in the disguise of a torn tricep. I was gutted. Luckily I stopped before I did to much damage. But when I got home my wife was shocked at the sight of my injury. She could put her thumb in the dent caused by the rip.

I treated it with a penetrating pain and inflammation cream to try and bring down the swelling, and a ultrasonic gun to try and promote healing.

But it didn't seem to improve anything, in fact it started twinge whilst I was driving. A necessary evil with my job. So I got a bit concerned for my immediate future in the gym.

But my wife came to the rescue. She comes from a family that believes in all the old time remedies. Her aunt
still rubs her joints with olive oil to beat joint pain, and my wife spent much of her young life walking around in goose fat and brown paper to beat chest colds.

So some of them are a bit questionable. But she mentioned something her dad used to use, Witch Hazel.

So I thoroughly soak a cotton cloth in witch hazel, and wrapped it around my tricep, and slept with it on.

All I can say, is it is amazing, the tricep looks like the tear never happened and although it is still not 100% fixed it feels 100% better. So if you do have a muscle tear, give it a go.