Lower Back Pain

[shibbel]



All right, I don't want another machine but I will try the floor, thanks.

You could also do good mornings. Same ****.

 

[Manton]

I don't have a pin rack.

 

[shibbel]

You don't need to lift off of a rack, the floor will do- there's even a seated variate if you'd rather start off that way.

 

[fuji]



You could also do good mornings. Same ****.

Not really, good mornings are a hip hinge working the lower back isometrically (if done properly) and then hamstrings. Reverse hypers don't work the hams and work the lower back through flexion. Both will strengthen the lower back though. Hows he gonna do a good morning off the floor? Clean and press it then lower it onto his back? Don't know about you, but my good morning is significantly higher then both my clean and press. He could just do RDLs.


Also ITT people argue with the top coaches in the world who actually know what they're talking about regarding the legitimacy of one of the simplest most fundamental motions.

 

[why]



Funny how it comes and goes. Last night I felt some pain crouching and reaching into the oven. I can't replicate that pain now.

Assuming you don't sleep upright, it's likely because the vertebrae had time to move away from the disc during the absence of pressure. That and a general reduction in inflammation from hours of inactivity and healing.

 

[whiteslashasian]



Assuming you don't sleep upright, it's likely because the vertebrae had time to move away from the disc during the absence of pressure. That and a general reduction in inflammation from hours of inactivity and healing.

About 2 years ago I herniated a disc, between the L4 and L5, 7 mm into my sciatic nerve causing stenosis and pain to shoot down my leg. Took me 9 months of rest and PT to get mostly better. I aggravate it every 3-4 months either from some activity (sports) or lifting. I've found that the time between injuries to increase and the recovery period to be drastically decreasing.

Friday night I was doing 10 ft medicine ball walls and felt it go. It was incredibly painful, to the point I couldn't bend more than 30 degrees down. Iced it for an hour, got 9 hours of sleep, and felt 95% better the next morning. I've found that doing planks, hypers, and deadlifts have helped strengthen my back and have never actually caused injury. The bulk of my gym related injuries to my lower back have come from stupidly lifting heavy dumbbells from the rack from a off center facing position, causing my back to take more strain than it should as I twist to straighten up. Stupid of me but I sometimes forget that I have back issues when it's felt healthy for 4 months straight.

I no longer have pain shooting down my leg, thank god. It's all localized to the left side of my spin in my lower back now and is manageable. I rarely take NSAIDs except in the case of a situation like last Friday.

 

[Manton]

Because I know everyone was dying to know, I think I have solved this problem through a variety of means. One of them was simply switching to the sumo stance for deadlifts. That seems to work much better for me.