10/22/02:
ME Squat Day:
Deadlifts:
Chris: (off 2" boards) 405, 455 miss from the floor
Matt: (off 2" boards) 405, 505 BLEW AN F'N DISC IN MY BACK!!!
That's right, I blew a disc while deadlifting 505 w/o a belt. It blew when the weight was about 3-4" off the gorund, and it felt like I had been shocked. A violent pop wen toff in my back, and then horrible pain shot down my left leg - so bad that I thought I had torn one of those tendons behond my knee, or that I had totally ripped my left hamstring.
What caused the pain, is that when the disc slipped, it pushed right on the nerve, causing the pain to shoot down my leg. I went to the doc to have it MRI'd and it is only partially slipped, so I'm not sure what my status will be for the meet on the 23rd. If nothing else, I can still bench.
Anyway, lots of ice and cyclobenzaprine for the first 48 hours. And now lots of heat, cyclobenzaprine and light weight reverse hypers, and we'll cross our fingers that it will slide back into place.
After I slipped the disc, I still put on a belt and did 365 just to see how bad it was.
Then I did 3 sets of reverse hypers and called it a day.
Dave: pulled sumo, worked up to well over 600. I think he got around 650 sumo, and he pulls conventional.
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