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Right, well talk about jinxing yourself...
Contrary to what I said in my first post - it seems I haven't got my lower back problem under control...
After my HIIT on Tuesday, I felt very slightly tight in my lower back on Wednesday so I didn't go to the gym - nothing unusual though. On Thursday I felt fine. Did my warm up (a 3 min walk and some stretching) then went to the rack to do rack pulls. I had loaded the bar with 2 x10kg and was setting up the plastic step-up thing when I stood up and got a shooting pain horizontally across the middle of my back. I haven't had that for well over a year now. So stupid me ignores it - does one set of rack pulls - then decides to do some HIIT instead. Felt fine during that, went home - went to shave and bang comes the shooting back pain again. So I took some ibuprofen and spent the rest of the evening on my side in bed with an ice pack.
Next morning I was getting ready to go to work and putting my socks on and back came the shooting pain. So I took the day off and spent it lying down.
Have more or less spent the weekend lying down too. Haven't had any re-occurrence of the pain (then again I got the wife to put my socks on LOL). I don't feel any other pain (well my neck ain't so great either - just a dull ache though).
I've got an appointment with the doctor tomorrow first thing. Dunno if they'll refer me to a physio or not.
Its pissed me off - I thought I knew all the warning signs, but I don't think I got any this time.
So I think I'll be off the weights for at least a month (if my memory serves me well)... |