Guy Cisternino injures leg during a recent training session.
Bodybuilding veteran Guy Cisternino suffered an unfortunate injury to his leg during a recent training session. Cisternino trained with fellow veteran bodybuilder Branch Warren when he heard a pop in his right quad.
One of the most recognized and respected bodybuilders of the modern era, Guy Cisternino has become notorious for speaking his mind. Never a man to shy away from his words, Cisternino always called it like he saw it. When he retired earlier this year the competitive bodybuilding scene lost one of its most interesting figures.
But just because he retired does not mean he’s stopped doing what he loves. That’s right you can still catch Guy Cisternino training hard in the gym to maintain his physique. He may no longer be looking to compete at the highest level, but that doesn’t mean he’s not intent on pushing the iron in the gym.
Unfortunately though with hard training can come some hard consequences. It appears that during a recent training session the veteran bodybuilder suffered a leg injury.
According to a post on his Instagram Guy Cisternino suffered an injury to his right quad. It happened on a leg day training session with fellow veteran bodybuilder Branch Warren. Cisternino gave details on how the injury occurred.
Sometimes life just keeps happening. Past couple of months have been very hard on me mentally, emotionally, and now physically. They say to feel pain means you’re alive, so you learn to take whatever life throws at you the good or the bad, that’s life. I was training with @thebranchwarren in Texas on Wednesday.
Normal dam day, we’ve smashed legs together hundreds of times. Literally last set of the first exercise doing reps of 20, my right quad popped, sounded like I stepped on a lightbulb.
As soon as I stopped Branch was about to yell at me to keep f**king going, but saw my face and knew right away it wasn’t good. Went to ER, then jumped on a flight next day back to Nj, got MRI Friday, results back today. Long and short of it, best case of a worst case scenario.
I tore the sortoreous deep in the belly of the muscle along with a lateral tear in the quad tendon. Neither requires surgery as long as I don’t train legs for 6 weeks and allow it to recover and heal.
So for now no more leg videos, now I’ve added a separate arm day instead of leg day to see if I can get these arms to fluff up a bit! Took off Thursday and back to work on Friday. It’s not a job, it’s a way of life for me.
The Generation Iron team wishes Guy Cisternino a speedy recovery.
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