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Threw out my back last week. The squat racks were all occupied, so instead of doing RDLs I did some back extensions on the Roman chair. I have no idea what I did wrong, I held just a single plate and the following evening my lower back seized up and I spent the next few days unable to sit down or bend over without pain.
Sorry to hear my man. Backs can be finicky. Hope it feels better soon.
It's better already. I first did something to my back back in 2020 in a Covid-induced coughing fit. Took a lot of time to fix it until I found a good neurologist with a YouTube channel. His main message was, "if you break your arm, do you immediately start trying to bend it again to make it less resistant to fractures? Of course not? So why do you think you should treat your back pain by constant stretches and twists and stuff? Leave it the fuck alone, let it heal! Go fix everything else around it! Fix your thoracic spine, fix your glute activation, fix your anterior chain!"
I did all that and realized that deadlifts and RDLs don't actually hurt my back. Can't say that about the girl that was doing deadlifts like a shitting dog, with her PT watching her like it was normal.
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