Yesterday was heavy squat day. Unfortunately on my second set of heavy triples, I F-ed up the second rep, and when i stood up and racked the weight i got a sharp pain in my lower back for a few seconds. I called my workout quits and took it easy the rest of the night. My back felt tender but I had no sharp pain.
Today, my lower back has slight pain and nothing too serious. I benched pressed, hit my tris, but when I went to do front raises i had the same sharp pain in my lower back. I figure I will not do any deadlifts or squats until I feel better, but obviously im a bit paranoid. If the pain persists I will see the doc, but does anyone have any advice on what this pain could be. Thanks
Sharp pain is probably not a good sign. I had a stress fracture in my lower back about 2 years ago from when I first started training(got it while Deadlifting). It was a sharp, concentrated pain like you described. I thought it was a temporary thing and went on playing basketball and weight lifting. Boy was I wrong. It got worse and worse until I finally saw someone about it.
I took over a year off from really any kind of hard physical activity and did tons of physical therapy and saw many different specialists. To this day I still have pain in my back(the fracture is healed, but there is still pain). I haven’t deadlifted in over 2 years and I regret so much not going to a doctor sooner.
Anyways my message is basically to STOP all lifting right now and go see a doctor. Trust me you don’t want to have to live/lift with back pain. I have trouble rowing, squatting, and obviously deadlifting.
[quote]Dabba wrote:
Sharp pain is probably not a good sign. I had a stress fracture in my lower back about 2 years ago from when I first started training(got it while Deadlifting). It was a sharp, concentrated pain like you described. I thought it was a temporary thing and went on playing basketball and weight lifting. Boy was I wrong. It got worse and worse until I finally saw someone about it.
I took over a year off from really any kind of hard physical activity and did tons of physical therapy and saw many different specialists. To this day I still have pain in my back(the fracture is healed, but there is still pain). I haven’t deadlifted in over 2 years and I regret so much not going to a doctor sooner.
Anyways my message is basically to STOP all lifting right now and go see a doctor. Trust me you don’t want to have to live/lift with back pain. I have trouble rowing, squatting, and obviously deadlifting.[/quote]
I deffinately hope it is not that, how intense was the pain, and did it only occur when exercising, or doing ordinary tasks?
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
Dabba wrote:
Sharp pain is probably not a good sign. I had a stress fracture in my lower back about 2 years ago from when I first started training(got it while Deadlifting). It was a sharp, concentrated pain like you described. I thought it was a temporary thing and went on playing basketball and weight lifting. Boy was I wrong. It got worse and worse until I finally saw someone about it.
I took over a year off from really any kind of hard physical activity and did tons of physical therapy and saw many different specialists. To this day I still have pain in my back(the fracture is healed, but there is still pain). I haven’t deadlifted in over 2 years and I regret so much not going to a doctor sooner.
Anyways my message is basically to STOP all lifting right now and go see a doctor. Trust me you don’t want to have to live/lift with back pain. I have trouble rowing, squatting, and obviously deadlifting.
I deffinately hope it is not that, how intense was the pain, and did it only occur when exercising, or doing ordinary tasks?
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The first time I felt the pain when deadlifting, it was sharp, but not a horrible pain. As I continued with it and playing basketball though, the pain became pretty unbearable. It at first only occurred when exercising/playing BB, but because I stupidly continued, I remember that even leaning down to get into a car made it kill. So it did occur doing ordinary tasks, but only after I let it get that far.
The first time I felt the pain when deadlifting, it was sharp, but not a horrible pain. As I continued with it and playing basketball though, the pain became pretty unbearable. It at first only occurred when exercising/playing BB, but because I stupidly continued, I remember that even leaning down to get into a car made it kill. So it did occur doing ordinary tasks, but only after I let it get that far.
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Well I don’t think it is as serious as what you suffered, there is just a little discomfort and the sharp pain only arised when I did squats and front raises. My posture has been kinda shitty this past week as ive been on the computer doing a ton of school work, so my back was alittle sore before hand.
Is it possible that this pain is due to muscle strain, and if so how long would one recomend me to take off from aggravating exercises, two weeks a month? If the pain is still here after a week Im gunna visit my chiro and the doc but we’ll see, and thanks again for the advice Dabba.
try everything, i am just beginning to recover from a random back injury ive had for a year. one thing ive done well with is flattening the lower back against a wall. from there you could sit down into a squat against the wall. also, while standing with hands holding onto something a ramp up to agressively swinging my foot in a forward arc, a dynamic hamstring stretch. all of these open up the lower vertebrae, good luck.