Well, for anyone that may recall, I posted on here a couple times about six weeks ago about a humerus fracture I suffered from arm-wrestling and the subsequent surgery I got to fix it. Many of the posts on here were influential in me getting the surgery and I am glad I did get it. Even though it still freaks me out a bit when I see the plate that is in my arm in the X-rays, there is no doubt that recovery is much quicker this way. It is six weeks out from the surgery and other than the scar, you wouldn't even know anything happened. Of course my right arm has atrophied a bit, from almost 19 inches or so to just a little over 17". Hopefully that size will eventually be regained.

Today I also got the go ahead to start lifting with my right arm again, yay! The doctor's instructions were to use a weight that falls within the 20-rep range. I haven't lifted with my right arm at all for the past six weeks (a little left arm training to maintain), so I obviously won't be starting with super intense 20 rep sets right off the bat. Once the initial kinks are worked out though, I would like to still make the 20 rep sets challenging. My question is, do you think gains can still be supported with this rep range? It is obviously not going to build a lot of tendon strength. I love to normally train pretty heavy, but he said the bone will not be fully calcified until 3 to 4 months out. I guess I should be grateful for what I can do. Has anyone ever trained like this with success or know of any special programs? I am thinking if I keep rest periods short, maybe I will still get a decent workout. The bone is still not completely healed yet either, so I need to be careful. You can still just barely see the fracture line. The movements need to be tight, nothing to mimic arm-wrestling. No Flyes and such, just good basic, compound movements, which are the best anway.

Any and all thoughts are appreciated, I had some awesome replies before. Thank you everyone!

Paul