I think you should do strict presses until the back heals. It will heal eventually, and you can add the hips then.
Again, your back is going to heal anyway if you keep training. If you make the back angle more vertical, the stress on the back will be more compression and less moment. In other words, the stress is still proportional to the load, but it is expressed across the back differently in the 2 positions, thus producing a different adaptation. So which adaptation do you want? Seems to me that you'd want your back strong in the positions you need back strength for, and a vertical back angle is not the angle in which the back is normally loaded. Cold has nothing to do with this, as global warming has made cold a thing of the past.2) From december 25 I started experiencing back pain in the spot of the bulged disk almost continuously during the day. The pain is not excessive but it makes me feel really bad and my mood go down, because it is always there, 80% of the time, and makes me feel uncomfortable. I fear my condition will get worse over time and may evolve to an herniated disc. Moreover, everyone surrounding me (family, friends, etc) is sceptic about the healing properties of weight training and tells me to stop lifting. Do you think the pain could be due to the bigger moment arm on the back for the low bar squat? Should I switch back to the high bar? Should I keep doing the low bar and simply get back to 10-15kg less in the progression for the squat and the deadlift and keep going up making 1kg jumps instead of 2.5kg jumps? Or should I go straight ahead ignoring the pain and blame the unusual cold we are experiencing here in my town in these weeks? (By the way, does intense cold make injured disc hurt harder?)
PS. Just for your knowledge, the “Cocchi” in Cocchi Americano is spelled like “kokkee”, italian “ch” is spelled gutturally, like english “k”. And I do not move my arms while talking [/QUOTE]
Thanks for the pronunciation correction. I do not believe you can speak without waiving your hands. Post a video of you speaking with your hands in your pockets.