Today while I was doing my tricep routine, during my first exercise... which was tricep pushdowns with the small v-shaped bar. I did two sets with heavy weight and I was about halfway finished with my third set and I was looking at my right tricep in the mirror and just below the large part of the outer head of my tricep there was a black spot that appeared that was about the size of a quarter (It looked like a bruise), I did two more reps and it got bigger, and after two more reps it was even bigger. After I stopped this area was about 3" long and 1" wide. It slowly started disappearing and after about 30 seconds it was completely gone. This made me scared to go very hard through the rest of my workout.. I was afraid something may be damaged but it didnt hurt at all or feel any different, besides extremely pumped. I was wondering if anyone has any idea what this could have been or what may have caused it. Thanks.
Posted by: P-funk
did it hurt? usually you can get balck and blue if you tear something.
Posted by: shaw23
I couldnt feel it at all, no pinch... no pain, no tingle... nothing. And it disappeared within about 30 seconds after that set. I took it easy on the tri's after that because I was afraid I was on the verge of injury or something.
Posted by: P-funk
weird??
is it still there?
Posted by: shaw23
Newp it hasnt came back. It almost looked like a vein or arterie had burst when it was spreading but then went away after I stopped my set.
Posted by: WilliamB
You should just do close grip bench. Forget those isolation exercises for the triceps. Wait close grip bench isnt considered isolation is it...its still considered compound right?
Posted by: shaw23
Yea if I would do CG bench insead then I wouldnt be able to see it if it came back and it wont worry me so much. I didnt figure it was a big problem since it didnt feel any different. I am also on a 1ad/4ad cycle currently but I have never heard anything about this kind of side effects. Could it be something along the lines of my muscles growing alot faster now?
Posted by: Mudge
That sounds really, really strange.
Posted by: Stallions05
When i cut my leg open and tore the muscle, after they sowed it up i would get bruise looking marks and the doc. said it was just blood between my muscle and skin, so maybe it could be sumthing like that
