Here’s a different reason for LBP: I was deadlifting with my trainer months ago and during the lifts I felt LBP. I pushed through them until the fifth set and then mentioned them. Had never had them before. He took me to the warm up area and had my lie on my back and started poking around my abs. I had referred pain from tigger points in my abs. When he pressed into my abs, left and right, I felt like I had tennis balls in there that hurt like a bitch. The resolution was to press into/massage the areas every night for a week. After a few days the pain was gone and I’ve been lifting heavier ever since with no recurrence. LBP generally is referred pain from another part of the body (like tight hammies as suggested above). If you Google trigger points you can find a couple of web sites that explain how pain in one part of the body originates from another.
[quote]bigben80 wrote:
I suffered from back pain that sounds exactly like yours for years. Every time I would squat and dead lift heavy my back pain would flair up. It never would really go away completely, but heavy squats and deads definitely made it worse. I had always heard that reverse hyperextensions were great for low back pain, but I have never had access to a reverse hyper machine. I was recently introduced to the exercise ball version. This video shows to exercise, I just use a little more range of motion (let your legs come all the way down at the bottom)and I use a little faster tempo. - YouTube
I began doing these 2x per week for 3x10-15. After about a month of doing these every week my back pain was almost completely gone and has stayed away for about two months now. This is all while doing the heaviest squatting and dead lifting I have done in years. Give it a try and see if it works for you.[/quote]
That’s really quite intriguing. I’ve heard so many good things about reverse hypers, but I don’t have one. I may give this a go. Thanks 
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Here’s a different reason for LBP: I was deadlifting with my trainer months ago and during the lifts I felt LBP. I pushed through them until the fifth set and then mentioned them. Had never had them before. He took me to the warm up area and had my lie on my back and started poking around my abs. I had referred pain from tigger points in my abs. When he pressed into my abs, left and right, I felt like I had tennis balls in there that hurt like a bitch. The resolution was to press into/massage the areas every night for a week. After a few days the pain was gone and I’ve been lifting heavier ever since with no recurrence. LBP generally is referred pain from another part of the body (like tight hammies as suggested above). If you Google trigger points you can find a couple of web sites that explain how pain in one part of the body originates from another. [/quote]
That’s new to me. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll see if I can find any trigger points in my abs.
I had similar symptoms lasting for about the past 4 months which have just gotten better (no pain or stiffness while sitting for a good 2 weeks now). After 3 months of dealing with this I just decided to skip out on deadlifts (these seemed to make the problem worse) for 2 weeks and switched to smith machine squats for that time period as well to take some strain off my back.
Between that and focusing a lot more on stretching post-workout I seem to have solved the problem. Comming back to deadlifting I’ve been lowering the bar to the floor and re-setting up for each pull since I feel imperfect form might have been the original issue since this isn’t somthing I really feel like living with.
For what it’s worth that seems to be what has fixed the problem for me.