My back feels perfectly fine and limber right after heavy deadlifts (finishing up NLP) but I’ve noticed that as the day wears on as I’m sitting at my desk at work, my lower back and hips just get tighter, and tighter and tighter. I wouldn’t say it goes so far as cramping up but it does get fairly uncomfortable even though I try to shift my posture around to find a way to alleviate it. Getting up and walking around does help but I can only realistically do so much of that.
Has anyone else experienced this? Anything I can do about it?
I’m not being facetious, this is really what worked for me.
I accepted the idea this was just my brain’s misinterpretation of new information from my growing muscles and it didn’t bother me anymore.
I work at a computer, so I understand this. I work (and workout) from home mostly so often times I lift about mid morning, then sit at a computer for 5-7 hours after that. You can get really stiff doing that. Getting up to move around helps a lot. If it’s doable, you might also consider getting a Varidesk. Several of my coworkers have them at our central office and rave about them. Beyond that, just deal with the discomfort and don’t get hung up over it. That’s the only advice I have.
I experienced the same thing when the frequency and volume of my deadlifting was low. I would hit a new 5RM, then get sore thereafter. With increased pulling volume (The Bridge), this no longer occurs for me.
Now, if I could just get Monday squats to stop making me sore…
I agree with Eric, in that I used to get more sore/beat-up from lifting. I’m 46, and thought that’s just how it worked at my age. Higher frequency deadlifting at the right intensity for me has been the key. I bought the full master template bundle a while back, and when I first saw the 12-week program I about croaked since it has 4days of full-body lifting per week. How could anyone do that? Then I ran Bridge 2.0 and HLM (both after Bridge 1.0), and now I feel mostly great after lifting. I am currently on the 12-day template, but am doing it with the 3 day per week modification. But basically I feel like I could do the 4-day program now. The day after competition squats I feel like I could easily go do competition deadlifts. Like the BBM crew says, if you want to recover more, train more.
Too sleep deprived for long post but me =
47
Sit very still in odd positions 10-11 hours a day working on mechanical watches
Was skeptical of volume
Am feeling much better with more volume
Agree with above peeps (did I say peeps? By the all seeing eye of Odin I hate marshmallow peeps)