What kind of pain? Could just be pump and soreness.
Sharp pain. Feels like it’s in the spine sometimes, others it’s a back muscle.
Just above your butt? Possibly you’re not squeezing youur glutes enough.
I have a hard time understanding/believing that 20 lb rows hurt your back but 115 lb squats to depth do not.
Thank you for sharing that.
No. Mid/upper back.
Mostly it hurt last night while I was trying to sleep.
Goal is to stimulate thought, not poke fun. The two just don’t seem to add up.
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I get you.
Maybe it’s stabilizer muscles, or different muscles for different movements. I dunno.
Without seeing you squat and row it’s hard to determine what is happening
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Ok.
I don’t have anyone to film me so… that’s that I suppose.
Either way, I take it my form must be wrong in some way?
Should I just play with it till I don’t feel pain anymore?
The muscles right above the hip and glutes hurt today. More dull ache though, so I assume they’ve just been worked.
Also, I’m thinking I should take some time off to let my back heal.
Balance your phone against a wall/towel/anything?
If you just don’t want film of yourself online, that’s fine as well.
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Sounds like you suffer from buttwink, possibly inactive glutes. Can you squeeze your glutes hard?
I think so. My legs move when I do it, but yeah, I can squeeze em.
If your legs move, possibly your glutes aren’t super active. That could be causing your butt to tuck under you when you squat, which can also upset your lower back.
Ok. so what’s the fix? Glute exercises?
I guess. It’s never something I’ve had to deal with myself so I’m not sure. I do know a lot of people seem to have experienced it though. I understand clamshells and glute bridges can help, possibly barbell hip thrusts too.
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Hmm. Ok.
Tbh, I’ve never had trouble either. I used to squat close to 200 lnbs (like 170-180, something like that) and it never hurt my back. But I think my form was wrong.
Anyhow, I did A Day today but evernote hasn’t updated yet so I can’t copy and paste. I’ll do so when it has.
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Try this: pile up a bunch of plates like a stool. Start with the height just above parallel. Squat down to the plates, and come up as soon as your butt touches. Then take away a plate, and repeat. Keep going until you hit your normal depth or your back starts hurting, whichever happens first. If it starts hurting as you go below parallel, or below a particular depth, I think that’ll indicate the issue is with buttwink or something similar especially if it feels like your lower back is being pulled.
Ok. Can’t I just squat without using the plates tho? I don’t really want to stack up a bunch of plates tbh.
Anyhow, Evernote came through:
A Day
Busy as fuck gym, had to start with:
Fly machine:
25-40-55-70-85
Incline Dumbbells:
7.5-10-15-20
*Start @ 5lbs next time
Dumbbell rows:
15-20-25-30-35
shoulder raise calf machine:
50-70-90-110-130
Dips (Counter Weight):
120-110-100-90-80
Pullovers:
20-25-30-35-40
Start @ 20/next time
This is more a one off you can use as a diagnostic. A bench or aerobic steps would be fine too.
Ok, well I think I’ll just use the squat bar without weights and keep adjusting the safeties on the staton. Same effect.
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