1-26-14 – Deadlift: Lessons & Pain

Deadlifts felt great today. I had good energy throughout this session. About two minutes after my last working set, which felt perfectly fine, my lower back tweeked out on me. I was unsure of what happened because nothing felt weird or out of place during any of my lifts thus far. So, I had a shooting pain from simply standing, one of those pains that just makes your body jerk when you hit that trigger point. Ugh! I’m pissed. I worked through my accessories and tried to be careful not to hurt myself more. Later on, if I sat too long it would hurt, if I stood up too long it would hurt, so I was just screwed. This really makes me mad because it’s SUNDAY, meaning that I just turned my great start of the week in training to a “not-picking-anything-up” week of recovery. The important part is that I learned from it, will make adjustments (like wearing a belt for deadlifts from now on) and will move forward.

Side Note:  I’m using our 2-board platforms for this cycle of deadlifts, which adds 3 inches in total height, in order to work on my hip flexibility/mobility. After 3 weeks I’ll go down to a 1-board platform which is only 1.75 inches, and then back down to the floor for the cycle after that.