Alright boys, I am in some serious pain!
Messed up my back today at the gym doing legs. First injury I have had in a while. I've had some shoulder irritations for the last couple years but it's been something that I could work around. This may keep me limited for a while.
I injured the same spot a little over 4 years ago. I twisted a vertebra in my lower spine...3rd one from the bottom on the left side. I haven't had it looked at yet, will do so today, but it feels the exact same way.
Like I said, I was doing legs. I have some leg routines I do sometimes when I'm short on time that are pretty brutal. Today was:
Leg Ext: 3 sets of 100
Leg Press: start with 2 plates a side for 20, add 2 plates to each side every set and do 20 reps, last set, was with 8 plates per side, 20 reps and then drop it 2 plates each side and do 20 reps for each until you're left with 2 plates a side again. At that point, do 10 reps normally, then 10 reps with the feet as wide as they can get and then 10 reps with feet in the dead center touching each other.
Hack Squats: 1 plate per side for 10, 2 plates for 20, 3 plates for 30, 4 plates for 40, 5 plates for 50. Well, 50 reps is the idea, I've never been able to do it. Sometimes I can't make the 40 rep one either but usually close.
Anyway, made it through the leg ext and hacks fine, but on the 3rd set of hacks my back messed up. I am not sure what happened at all, I didn't notice it happen until I got done with the set and got off the hack squat. But it is killing me and pissing me off.