Help!

[warmachine7954]

I have a protruding L5-S1 and the doc has put me on rest. It is touching the nerve enought to cause pain 24/7 and I can't train through it. However, I have been cleared to bench press because it has minimal spinal load. I'm curious about any other barbell exercise with minimal spinal load.

Any ideas? Thanks.

I live in South Korea and only have a basic bench, and squat rack and a cable machine that is built kinda small at my disposal.

[Carlos Daniel]

Chins? Dips? Reverse hyper?

[Regin Smidur]

Chest supported rows would work in theory, might still be painfull in practice, iunno.

[warmachine7954]

Not strong enough to do chins and no bar to do so. No dip station available. No way to do reverse hypers.

I should have mentioned I live in South Korea and the only thing I have available is barbells and some adjustabel dumbells up to 20 lbs.

[f4thpathway]

Can you front squat? Walking lunges?

[warmachine7954]

No kinda of squatting.

[f4thpathway]

Have you tried to front squat on it?

[warmachine7954]

No