By Gary Chappell
LEWIS BREED is back in the gym just days after suffering serious injuries in a head-on car crash.
He suffered a number of injuries in the car crash, including, concussion, fracturing his arm in three places, internal bleeding, damage to his kidneys and bladder and needing an operation on his coccyx
Breed, who revealed details of his plan to qualify for the Mr Olympia in an exclusive interview with frontdouble.com two weeks prior to the smash, posted videos of him working out with his hand still in plaster. He said: "First day back in the gym and having a play with what’s manageable. Not training like a lunatic. However, if I didn’t train it would turn me into a lunatic."
He used cuffs for some cable side lateral raises, saying: "I've never been a fan of cuffs. I like to grip and feel something. But with this we will do some cuff raises and see if it's manageable. See if we can get a good focus on the medial delt."
Breed can also be seen on the pec-deck. He moved the grip away from the hands, placing the bars into the elbow joint. He said: "I'm not putting any pressure on the wrist. I can get a nice squeeze in the pec and get some blood in there. That's all we need to do."
Finally he posted a video of some machine tricep work using the arm on which he has a cast. He said: "That's pretty decent. Because the fracture is on this underside, any pushing there is not going to cause any tension on to this side where the injury is. So that was quite nice, a nice squeeze on that one."
Breed had planned to compete at the China Open, followed by the Portugal Open in a bid to qualify for this year's Mr Olympia. And during an interview with frontdouble.com prior to the car crash, he gave thanks to his wife Holly for making him the bodybuilder he is today.
Breed had said: "My wife has a massive input. She's more invested in the sport than I am. She invests all of her time, all of her effort, researching everything that I need to be done. I am the bodybuilder I am today – I have gone from amateur, to pro, to top 10, to top six, to top three, because of my wife. Because she's so invested. Every single time I'm on stage, she analyses it. She speaks to the judges and says, 'they said this, this and this'. And we'll spend hours going, 'right, you need to do this, this is how we do it, this is how you apply this etc'. She books all my appointments, she books all my treatments. She tells me where I'm going, what I'm doing."
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