Jul 31 in 💬 General
I've Been Dealing With Some Back Pain...
It's inevitable even if we do regular maintenance and focus on quality movement, sometimes it just happens!
That's what happened to me a little over a week ago now, I was traveling a lot and not in the gym or keeping up with my routine.
I was excited to get back in the gym and get back to it, and I came in a little too hot.
Lesson #1 - if you have been out of the gym for more than 2-3 weeks you need a reintroductory period to avoid injuries and prep your body.
I knew exactly what I had done (because of my history) so here's what I noticed and what I did. I hope you can grab some value out of it if you are facing similar problems.
After a heavy squat day my right side glute seemed to tighten up, and same with my left side adductors.
I had the next day planned as a rest day so that worked out well and I stretched and dug a ball in a bit.
But then I figured I would be good to go the following day and hit some sumo deadlifts amoung other stuff but I think thats the one that did me in.
After that my glute and adductur tension increased and some low back pain showed up.
This is a pretty common pattern for me so I spent the next couple days getting lots of stretching, rolling and walking in and when I could I hit the sauna and stretched out in there too.
One of the keys I find for back pain is to keep moving if at all possible. The last thing you want to do is be stuck sitting and laying around. Lots of walking and breaking up my work day more than regular I think made a huge difference.
PS if you are in pain I would love to hear about it. Drop a post and tell me about it and lets trouble shoot it together.
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I've Been Dealing With Some Back Pain...
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