You seem pretty cool talking about your fall, looks like it was rough . Best of luck getting back up to speed after ur leg gets better. Fwiw I m also on injury mode and out of the gym for a while, my long existing hernia didn't take well the slow deadlift policy at the new gym. Probably time to give up deadlift altogether as it provokes frequent injuries. Robert Oberst, one of the top strongmen, made waves a few days ago stating that the reward to risk ratio was terrible with deadlift. On the bright side, Baron and all, it s good to experience even at our ages we can get injured, rest, than still come back stronger. Wondering how long that ll last though.
Can't argue with that. I did deadlifts a long time ago for a couple months or so. There is no question it is a great exercise. But since I like going all out, I realized that if any exercise was going to do me in, it would be the deadlift. And so I stopped. I came to the same conclusion with barbell squats some years later, despite having done them for years. They're both top-tier exercises, but both carry potentially heavy consequences if shit goes wrong.
This was me yesterday after I got stitched up. Not my best look. I got up this morning and realized that although my leg is sore as hell today, I should still be able to work my upper body so I did an abbreviated back workout, which was lat pulldowns and some seated rows. For me, I think the mental torture of not doing any exercise at all would far exceed any physical pain.
Yeah, I can't do those at all. Even light stiff-legged deadlifts fuck my back up every time. So I just do leg extensions and leg press for quads, hamstring curls, hip thrusters for my glutes, and hyperextensions for my lower back. That's a lot of exercises to make up for what I could probably accomplish with just deadlifts, but at least it's a safer way to achieve the same end result. I'm not sure how long that cycle will last, but let's push it to the very end until we can't continue any longer.
I ll check what the doctors have in mind now I m in spain once I sort out paperwork (that s a preexisting condition private insurance won t cover though)but really not keen on surgery. Usually when pain translates into sciatica it is pain medication for a while until it either gets better or we do a peridural steroid injection. Had 2 of those and it worked great This time it s worse than a couple of days pain but dealt with fine with100 to 200mg tramadol per day, rather small dose as far as sciatica is concerned, but very hard not to lose weight on this Will see how it evolves. Fwiw II've switched to sumo and decreased volume on deadlift after it became obvious it was the main culprit. I squat almost the same and often at higher volumes but feel the squat is much less harmful to that specific slipped disc at least. In the process of setting up in a new place so will probably have quite a few things to carry around and upstairs those next few weeks. Not the time to be stuck on the bed so will likely give a pass to gym for a while. Not so fun but there it is, the Lower your deadlift slowly policy sure made it worse. I liked that new gym but can t say it worked out great Good luck to us all!
My mistake. When you said hernia, I assumed you meant the “down under” variety. It didn’t occur to me that you were referring to a herniated disc.
Yep, sorry abt that, i could have been more explicit. Fwiw I ve surgery for inguinal hernia on both sides, once as a kid and another a few years back, and it worked fine， but what I read abt spine surgery doesn't look that great. Yet I saw a surgeon 1 year ago in when travelling through Dubai who talked me abt several processes I wasn't familiar with,some relatively light, will try and check what the surgeons say in Spain. It s a bit of a hassle being so regularly injured with the same issue. Bright part is once the pain disappears I seem to be good to go for a few months. Also fwiw it is not only heavy lifting, tennis and golfing also brought me lots of slipped disk related issues