deadlift injury help

[Gill110]

Someone pointed out to me at the gym that i was half assing my deadlifts because I wasn't doing enough weight. So of course I decided to add a plate to each side and then hit 5 reps at 250. By my 4th set i started feeling something wrong in my lower back, it doesn't feel like a disc issue but more like a cramp in my muscle. any idea what happened?

 

[stevesmi]

you should hope it is just a pulled muscle or cramp

a disc problem in the back is bad news. i would get an inversion table asap and start practicing yoga daily

 

[SteveMobsterG]

Maybe that's the feeling you're meant to have. How is it now?

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

If it still feels off today assume some type of injury and rest it. Do not push through anything to do with your back. There is huge risk of making it worse.

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

Hopefully you can distinguish between muscular soreness and pain vs joint and ligament/tendon pain.

I've never seriously injured my back, but I have cramped and strained the spinal erectors before.

My guess is that one or both of your spinal erectors have seized up abit from having overdone it on the deadlifts.

I usually layoff from any exercises that require the lowerback - standing press, deadlifts, squats etc until it feels better.

Epsom salt baths and EASY stretching of the area until it feels "normal."

 

[cbbram]

any idea what happened?

yeah you listened to someone else instead of doing what's right for you