# GPP Hypertrophy Bias - RDL and SLDL question

**URL:** <https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/gpp-hypertrophy-bias-rdl-and-sldl-question/4793>\
**Category:** Training Q&A \[Moderated\]\
**Tags:** squat, hypertrophy, rdl, sldl, assistance\
**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/gpp-hypertrophy-bias-rdl-and-sldl-question/4793 "2019-01-29T18:23:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![RipsJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/ripsj/32/890_2.png) [@RipsJ](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/RipsJ)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/gpp-hypertrophy-bias-rdl-and-sldl-question/4793/1 "2019-01-29T18:23:34Z")

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Hi BBM crew and everyone on the forum!

So i´m on week 6 of the 3 day version of the plan, and I love almost everything about it…except for the squat assistance exercises, both RDL and SLDL.

Since starting doing this exercises from the program I have had a lot of lower back pain. It´s not to the point where I can´t train but it has gotten worst as the weeks go by. I always feel the lower back destroyed and I just wanted to ask:

1. Is this normal?
2. I´ve tried to not round my back and keep ‘good’ technique, but could it be that I need to do it with better technique?
3. Could it be that my body is not adapting to well to this exercises and that I should consider doing other exercises?

I´m just sucking it up and I have not changed anything about the program but I´m curious on how to approach this situation.

Also, my competition deadlift has taken a massive hit due to this problem and has gone from 190kg to 150kg.  
I´m 25yo, 188cm tall and BW is around 90kg  
Squat is 120kg(Low, I know, working on it!)  
Bench is 105kg  
Press is 70kg

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Austin\_Baraki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/austin_baraki/32/1095_2.png) [@Austin\_Baraki](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Austin_Baraki)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/gpp-hypertrophy-bias-rdl-and-sldl-question/4793/2 "2019-01-30T22:38:03Z")

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It’s unlikely to be related to your technique. This sounds likely to be fatigue-related, i.e., you weren’t adequately adapted to this much training stress on the back.

I would probably temporarily swap those movements out for something else (for example, the leg press, or some other movement), and later on you can re-introduce them at a lower volume & intensity, and work this back up over time.

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**Author:** ![RipsJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/ripsj/32/890_2.png) [@RipsJ](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/RipsJ)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/gpp-hypertrophy-bias-rdl-and-sldl-question/4793/3 "2019-01-31T13:38:53Z")

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Thanks for the reply Austin! I’ll try to train my back gradually to handle this much stress

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**Author:** ![Acamp76144](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/acamp76144/32/807_2.png) [@Acamp76144](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Acamp76144)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/gpp-hypertrophy-bias-rdl-and-sldl-question/4793/4 "2019-02-17T21:25:27Z")

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Have to say I struggled with SLDL’s coming in out of nowhere in week 5 for 6 sets of 8! Lower back felt fatigued on the conventional DL so I dropped them and kept in RDLs.