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pincrusher said:our lower back muscle group is generally the weaker ones we have. it doesnt usually get much direct work especially when people wear a weight belt all the time. you are now experiencing what it is like to directly work the lower back muscles. it will gradually lessen as you start to strengthen your muscles in that area but until then you will probably have to deal with a good bit of discomfort.
your overall back may be strong from your line of work but the back muscle group is very complex. the lower back muscles are not used nearly as much in every day operations so when you hit them directly bam they get sore as hell. you are more than likely using middle back, traps, & lats during your normal workday. even when picking up something heavy, we are always taught to bend the legs and keep the back straight and lift straight up, thus helping to eliminate most of the need for your lower back muscles to have to do much work.stussy said:Being an ironworker/welder I thought i had a fairly strong back. I guess I was wrong.
it could just mean that your hamstrings are very weak compared to your back muscles which is forcing the hams to work hard.steve0085 said:When i do straight leg deadlifts, my hamstrings burn but my back doesn't hurt at all. Does that mean i'm doing it wrong?
yeah LOL actually what i am referring to is you might have an imbalance in strength levels between your lower back muscles and those of your hamstrings. if one muscle is stronger than the other, it will tend to take on most of the workload during the exercise. its the same as if one bicep is bigger than the other, you will have the one arm exerting most of the force needed to move the weight and the other will get progressively weaker compared to the stronger one creating an imbalance. you would find out the difference between them when you do dumbell curls which isolate each individual muscle.steve0085 said:Are you calling me weak Pin?