Ia 9day

I have a lower back injury that has been problematic for a few years and will say that leg presses on MOST machines aggrevate it more than squats do. If leg pesses don't bother your back, try pairing leg presses with deadlifts and add just one rep each session or a SMALL amount of iron each time and you will probably fine you can be progressiver without re-injuring your back. I have used the powertech squat machine as well and it works quite well. A safety squat bar is another GREAT alternative and I have had mine for over 10 years now--damn I'm getting old!

Iron Addict
 
Corey, let your back heal. After that you can be balls out. Just wait until you are healed to worry about what you can do. Once you are healed you can probably do squats and deads fine. But doing them back to back is pretty harsh. Usually when you do that you don't want to go balls out on both.

What have you done for your back? Massage, stretching?

Traps
 
oh yah i do all that. its just doc said its the fact i went balls out and when my muscles start to give it puts more on the spine, the more weight on my spine agravatest he hell out of the slipped disc area then the next few days my muscles spasm and go nuts. he said way to avoid it is to not take the muscles to the point they are about to give and my spine taking a beating *shrugs*

yah after 2 months of traction and 5 months of physical therapy way back when, i do stretches for my back and hamstrings EVERY day
 
thx ia, i'll give that a shot. i think today is going to be my first return to deadlifts, keeping it fairly light still at 225 and see how i do the next few days. we do have a squat machine and its funny that idea never even crossed my mind. i'll have to see how that does :) always more eye candy in the machine room also :)
 
just want to say to everyone if you're not going up 1 rep or 1lb everytime you lift i'd bet you're overtraining or not trying hard enough...hehe...set a new curl best for me at 135 w/ bench bar for 4reps.
 
while doing deadlifts you guys keep your shoulders back when you're in the down position correct? if you keep them in that position you don't have to roll them back or anything at the top correct? just keep them back/straight throughout the entire lift?
 
i just keep my shoulders back when i go down, so that when i stand up there is nothing left to roll back, shoulders are already back. oh well, i was just curious, i'll keep doing them the way i am
 
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