Any of you guys been through this?

Sounds like you're going to the doc. Do so asap. My understanding is that if they don't re-attach the muscle within a week or so, then it's too late forever.

Mine doesn't hurt anymore, but it did significantly reduce my chest strength and flexibility. I used to do pushups as a warm up. Now the pushups are the workout.

So sorry you hurt yourself. Definitely get it checked out.

Good luck with your doctor's visit and diagnosis.

Only a relatively minor tear, and I was in really good shape back then, having 10+ years of steady weight training under my belt at the time.

I wasn’t right for several months.

Don’t know how old you are, but if you’re past middle age, and it’s a serious tear?

You’re looking at 6+ months of rehab, strengthening, stretching, e- stim, and maybe even surgery.

If it’s a minor tear, like I’m guessing it is, you’ll have to take several weeks off, maybe more, of doing any chest work, only doing light rehab and stretching, etc.

Then you’ll progress to simply light bench “support” lifts, where you are simply holding a relatively light weight.......no lowering or pressing.

Then on to narrow grip, light benching with a short stroke, and so on. Get with someone who can set you up with a rehab plan.

But what you did happens regularly.

Person works out for a long time, then stops for an extended period of time.

Once you start working out again, your muscles will respond relatively quickly.

Unfortunately, your tendons (and ligaments for that matter) take quite a bit longer to return to their former tension load ability (much less blood flow and cell turnover.)

So for a while, you are in danger of having a muscle that can create more torque than the tendon can take if you’re pushing it.

Same thing happens to steroid users. When taking traditional steroids, Dianabol, Winstrol, et al, the muscle responds MUCH faster than tendons, and the roid boy blows up his bicep tendon doing dead lifts, or tears a pec benching, etc.

Doesn’t happen as much with HGH, but I digress.................get it checked out.........and make sure you rehab it properly, and back off your intensity for a bit.......you’re not 25 anymore.

When I felt that tear it was the weirdest feeling and I knew instantly. It literally felt and sounded exactly how you would think a muscle tearing strand by strand would feel.

Thanks for asking guys.

I’m just gonna go ahead and diagnose it as Covid-19.

You are lucky. Stop with the heavy weights Arnold.