I may not be strong enough to give advice, but the JM Press works well for me, so for what it’s worth:
Thanks I’ll keep both in mind! It did feel like the front delt was taking a bit of the effort away from the triceps.
If your getting some issues with sciatic nerve have you tried working on your piriformis. Rolling in a lacrosse or hard spikey ball can help.
Good pitch and that was exactly my thought as well. So far to very little success.
But in general my back is definitely improving a lot. Getting out of the bed is the most unpleasent but after that is out of the way I get by, haha. I think my appointment yesterday set me up for a good recovery path. I do my rehab work 2-3 times a day and if I keep improving at this rate, I’ll be back in no time.
The real scary part was at the start when I couldn’t stand up straight. After that was over, I’m much more relaxed. The pain is not terrible.
Good luck for your own recovery! These things suck but happen, I suppose.
28.03.
We had another late night skype-drinking-session. Quality time and makes you feel less like an alcoholic, haha.
First rehab workout of the day consisted of mainly hip and hamstring stretches, lacrosse ball work on the glutes and some single leg glute bridges. 90/90 breathing to finish up. I also tried some prisoner squats just to see if I could do the motion. Huge improvement there from yesterday. Not pain free once I reach a certain depth but yesterday I couldn’t push my hips back whatsoever without pain.
Second rehab workout was just smashing my piriformis and other glute areas with the lacrosse ball after some light gardening work.
Third workout was more hip stretching. The difference here to yesterday evening’s stretching session could only have been greater if I didn’t stretch yesterday evening. Definitely noticeable greater range of motion and MUCH less pain! Still a left to right discrepancy but that’s probably going to even out eventually.
Also I can now squat pain free.
That gives me the hope that I’ll be able to have a good workout tomorrow. 
29.03.
Upon waking up the central nerve pain located at the sacrum was nearly gone. My piriformis on both sides was painfully tight.
So I did a full rehab workout with a lot of lacrosse ball work and hip stretching at home before my workout. My left upper butt cheek was still a bit achy and dull but I decided that’s gonna be as good as I can make it right now. The squat motion was now completely pain free, which was huge compared to the previous days.
1 box squat (briefs + sleeves)
In 40 kg jumps up to 180 kg
2 x 1 @ 200 kg - both PRs.
4 x 1 @ 190 kg
2 leg extensions - haven’t done this since I first started in a gym lol.
4 x 12
3 leg curls
4 x 12
4 dead bugs
3 x 10
Notes:
A few days ago I had trouble to get into an upright standing position. Today I squatted 200 kg. There are few lessons fir me here:
30.03.
Deload week
Piriformis area still tight as fuck. Hip and back are improving from day to day. Felt a little under the weather today physically and/ or as a result, very lethargic.
Plan was just to chase a pump and leave.
Also no push presses to save the ol’ hip.
1 strict press (no belt)
14 @ 60 kg.
2 bradford press - just trying something for a pump.
3 x 20 @ 40 kg
Huge delt pump indeed. Eliminates triceps mostly.
3 seated wide grip row
5 x 10
4 push ups
20, 15, 10
Huge chest pump. Havent done these in ages. Don’t judge these numbers, it was the fourth exercise of the day, lol!
5a JM Press
10 @ 20 kg + chains
2 x 15 @ 20 kg + chains
5b face pulls (5 forehead - 5 nose - 5 neck)
4 x 15
Notes:
Just a long walk and of course more rehab work today. Hip is still kinda messed up but it’s getting better every day and I am confident that after another week, I’ll be all better.
Hiccups aside (which we all get from time to time) I’ve really enjoyed watching you blow past me on basically every lift lol.
Sorry to about your granny man, I really am. I think we’re around the same age… it’s really tough watching grandparents decline and these COVID-19 isolation tactics are amplifying it, causing so much heartache for so many folks.
Thanks a lot man, I appreciate the good vibes.
Also don’t think I’ve forgotten our deadlift race! 
Definitely tough man.
Also I always assumed you’re older than me, haha.
This could sound wrong… I don’t mean because I have seen a picture of you but because of what you’ve shared of your private life!
I also finished my new training plan today. I am looking forward to how it will play out.
The plan consists of 4 training plan (1) overhead, 2) deadlift, 3) 2nd overhead and 4) squat) and is set for 8 weeks. I can’t really predict when the comps are going to take place so I decided to use this time mainly to rebuild my deadlift and make a serious run at the 140 kg overhead press. I am in a good spot for that and am already pretty close. I’ll try some new methods over those 8 weeks and see if they can close the gap.
That’s pretty much the same layout as the plan I am doing right now but the 2nd overhead day will be less about strongman specific training and more about pressing assistance.
If someone is interested, I can post the whole thing up but it’s a lot of pictures and I don’t know if anyone is really interested in reading through that all.
01.04.
Still kinda lazy and lethargic. Especially about training. I blame the lockdown. It’s alriggt though, I am in deload week anyhow. The less I do, the better for me.
Range of motion has been restored in both hips. For pain management and further healing I mainly concentrate on the lacrosse ball and some very basic and short stretching.
1 sweeping deadlifts
3 x 5 @ 100 kg
1 @ 140 kg
2 pin good mornings (used a simulated ghetto ssb because I was too lazy to get my shoulders loose enough)
3 x 12 @ 40 kg
Ok so with this I am trying to basically mimick my deadlift starting position. I did a poor job on set 1 because my feet were too wide and I didn’t flex my knee enough which caused the bar to be too far in front of me. The other two sets were an improvement. Since I was going down basically in slowmotion (not entirely intentional, I was just trying to find the sweet spot and load my hamstrings), my hammies got worked a lot for so little weight.
@Voxel Sweeping deadlifts worked. Very awkward and the weight feels more difficult than it would without the band but got the lats a lit more activated than they usually are.
Your lower back rounds during the as the bar is lowered below the knees. All I know is that that’s not good. I don’t know what causes it. My layman guess is mobility because this is less pronounced on your third set so I’m guessing that you are letting your spine round to reach down.
This is somewhat supported by item 4 in this article
Good point. Although I am not sure to what degree the hip flexion is just normal. I personally think, when I watch the video, that my hips were too low. That might have further contributed.
Usually if we are talking mobility, that would be hamstrings but that’s not really an issue with me.
If I knew someone on here to @ I would, but the best form check critique I’ve gotten was from pinky and he’s more about sumo. You could try CTs forum, he’s the one that directed me to sweeping deadlift.
I don’t think it’s a big deal K.
You round just before you reach the floor. I think you just let your brace go and just lowers the bar the last cm. That is of course not ideal.
But your form has improved tremendously over the past year or so. Well done.
Man l haven’t forgotten the contest, but I cannot seem to remember the details… first to pull 500?
Haha.
haha, no worries. I’m 31. Maybe if I keep progressing I’ll be competitive in the Masters’ class
Kind of calming. If we were exactly the same age I might have felt bad since you are married and have a house and all, if memory doesn’t fool me?
Jup, first to pull 500. Don’t worry, I am moving at my preferred speed in that regard (between slow and not at all).
I’ll definitely watch out to keep my brace all the way and see if it gets better. Incidentally I have some slow eccentrics programmed in my new program. So that might answer this question