Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
I suggest you fall in love with something less ballistic. Olympic lifting with your back is a bad idea. It may not hurt now, so that's fine. Until it does, you'll be fine. If you trust the repair to remain stable under a heavy 3rd attempt clean, go ahead. But if it doesn't hold, you're back where you started: your malformed L5 has caused problems, you knew you had a malformation and slammed a heavy bar onto your back anyway, and now the fucker may not be a not-repairable Grade 3.