sphillip40
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Hi all, just wondering what you're thoughts are on this. I used to squat and deadlift in my HST routine. Alternating days and 3days/week. I did cardio 2days/week on off days.
My first mishap... my back tweaked a little upon setting the weights down during dl's on one of my max 5 workouts. Nothing too bad but my back was sore for a few days. about 2 weeks later, the same thing happened. Then i started my next cycle (after about 10day SD). Here, i was worried about over stressing my back and so i limited my routine to 1day/week dl, and 1day/week squat. I did fine until I reached my max 5's again. This time, upon setting the weights down, i threw out my back. This took me out of the gym for about a week and i had a hell of a time even getting out of bed and off of the couch for a few days. That was about 4 months ago.
I stopped squats and DL's all together but am on my 2nd cycle since the accident. I stopped squats because my knee was chronically soar for months by that point and my cardio was getting tough to do. I do ATF squats and i do feel really good about my form. DL's on the other hand, i feel like my form is good but if i slip just slightly (and it happens only when setting the weight down), i get messed up pretty bad.
My back is still slightly soar since then and I feel it will probably take another few months before it's normal again. Does anyone else not do DL's because of back issues? Any other similar stories? DL's are spoken about here as if they're sacred... but i don't want to throw out my back again, not even once, for the rest of my life. I'm only 26 and I shouldn't have back issues now.
Should i work them back in to my routine? Or should I focus on getting squats back in? or both? For the last 2 routines, i hit my calves real hard and I do some interval training on the stairmaster, nothing else for legs (they still look okay though).
If i do work them back, any ideas on how to really get used to them so i don't throw out my back again? My max was 225lbs. Can i have the BB slightly elevated before starting, or is that cheating?
Thanks.
My first mishap... my back tweaked a little upon setting the weights down during dl's on one of my max 5 workouts. Nothing too bad but my back was sore for a few days. about 2 weeks later, the same thing happened. Then i started my next cycle (after about 10day SD). Here, i was worried about over stressing my back and so i limited my routine to 1day/week dl, and 1day/week squat. I did fine until I reached my max 5's again. This time, upon setting the weights down, i threw out my back. This took me out of the gym for about a week and i had a hell of a time even getting out of bed and off of the couch for a few days. That was about 4 months ago.
I stopped squats and DL's all together but am on my 2nd cycle since the accident. I stopped squats because my knee was chronically soar for months by that point and my cardio was getting tough to do. I do ATF squats and i do feel really good about my form. DL's on the other hand, i feel like my form is good but if i slip just slightly (and it happens only when setting the weight down), i get messed up pretty bad.
My back is still slightly soar since then and I feel it will probably take another few months before it's normal again. Does anyone else not do DL's because of back issues? Any other similar stories? DL's are spoken about here as if they're sacred... but i don't want to throw out my back again, not even once, for the rest of my life. I'm only 26 and I shouldn't have back issues now.
Should i work them back in to my routine? Or should I focus on getting squats back in? or both? For the last 2 routines, i hit my calves real hard and I do some interval training on the stairmaster, nothing else for legs (they still look okay though).
If i do work them back, any ideas on how to really get used to them so i don't throw out my back again? My max was 225lbs. Can i have the BB slightly elevated before starting, or is that cheating?
Thanks.