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    Cheers. I’ll try that and update.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Will Morris View Post
    Start with doing some tempo squats, slow Romanian deadlifts, and some 1-0-3 tempo stiff legged deadlifts on your typical training days. These might make the pain acutely worse, but should work beautifully over the next couple weeks to alleviate the symptoms.
    Apologies for not replying for ages. I tried this method for about a month and got an improvement immediately after the workouts, and a day or so later, but the pain came back. I attribute this to some sort of having muscles and joints warm, loose and lubricated. Much like on days I play soccer or just walk around a lot.

    For a couple of months I had to do lots of DYI round the house (laying floors so very active) and actually stopped any weightlifting for that period, feeling that the general moving around and rest would help things. As before, moving around a lot - as opposed to sitting on a chair which makes me sore - helped while the body was warm. But once I stopped and rested, things came back.

    Nothing really worked, I started lifting again. Light squats and deadlifts,, press and accessories. I’m at 50% of the previous squat. I’m sure I could lift a lot more now but just taking it very slow and controlled.

    I have to be honest and say that I reach for the paracetamol more often than the ‘rest’ couple of months but I tell myself it don’t really feel worse. I recall I had a squat PR weeks after the initial acute injury, and felt the same.

    I since managed to get an MRI done. Just had the General Practicioner on the phone. All fine except:

    -At the L4/5 level there is a right paracentral disc protrusion impinging the right L5 nerve root.

    -There is a broad-based disc bulge at the L5/S1 level abutting/mildly impinging the left S1 nerve root.”

    Now, these locations are pretty consistent with the radiating pain what I feel (including on the left side - where i got a niggle too). However, I’m fully aware of the sensitivity and specificity of back MRIs, the success rate and pros and cons of surgery (if I ever decide I need it), vs conservative treatment. And the importance of of continuing to become stronger. And the doc was pretty clearly trying to manage my expectations. I’m on a waiting list to speak to an orthopaedist to have more specialist advice.

    In the meantime I’ll continue to lift. I’m hoping that as long as the pain does not increase and I lift correctly, I can only get stronger and stronger will make things better. Entirely my decision- won’t hold anyone here to account so appreciate any advice. Essentially I don’t want to make things worse and hope things will get better.

    I’m on 3g of paracetamol per day though!

    I’ll do a form video later.

    Thanks

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    Hello

    Would like to update on this.

    Things have gradually became better for no apparent reason.
    I had a long holiday in august, lots of walking and swimming. Squatting my kids on the beach (together it’s about 50kg &#128514

    Came back, continued to train. Pain still there, ranging between a 3 and 5 out 10. Living with it. There was maybe a moment when I felt a change and that was the day after soccer. 4 months later, I still feel it but it’s more like tightness and can have a bit of sciatica on heavily lifting days. Just that day and the day after. But always goes away. I can now do a full hamstring stretch (as a measurement to compare with before…)

    I realised some of the lifts are harder on the back than others, so get this:
    I isolated the lifts to see what happened.
    Only the press 2.0 made my symptoms worse. None of the others, so I avoided press 2.0. Maybe it was my form, I never had it checked.

    After a month or so with the other lifts not making it worse, I introduced strict press, which is going well at 50% of my previous max.


    I’m at about 70% on the others. I know it’s a lot of time and I can’t wait to go back to where I was - not far from ending LP I think - but have been making very small increment until recently, where I added a bit more to speed up LP again. Plus, I’m only training twice per week due to, well, life.

    Missed my orthopaedist appointment and not sure I’ll rebook it. Did have chat with the physio, an old lady, who surprised me by encouraging me to lift!

    On sports performance, I noticed that I’m a lot heavier than before (gained 15% of my previous weight, though quite a bit is lard now doubt!), but I’m not really slower than before.

    So, fingers crossed it won’t come back again. I wanna be lifting forever!

    I have been working on the feedback I had here - thanks coaches - and especially on the squat I have been improving my grip. I can now nearly have my wrists not extended at all but it takes a lot of the stretching and doing the warm ups is hard! But the moment I was able to practically feel my scapulas touching each other, and feel the grip closer to what it should be, it really clicked. I completely lost the slight tingling in my elbows post workout that probably preceded the golfers elbow I was setting myself to.

    And listening to the podcast has kept my spirits up, so thanks rip

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