Low back while driving after DLs

Hey guys. Checking if anyone had a similar experience that could be shared.

I have noticed for a while that everytime I drive for more than 30min the day after a heavy DL session, my low back starts bothering me a bit. Seems like just an excessively tired muscle, and stays like this as long as I am in the car. There’s none at all of this discomfort while driving in “normal” conditions or by seating at the office in such days. I have tried changing seat settings or posture, but doesn’t seems to help.

I’m not worried with this at all, just trying to minimize a common discomfort. Anyone experieces this often?

I think that makes sense. Car seats aren’t engineered for comfort, they are engineered for maximum survivability in a crash. So when sitting in a car seat it’s not exactly a comfortable and natural position. Sitting in a car seat does place some stress on your back (which is why it’s not uncommon for back pain after a long drive) and since your back is pre-fatigued it is becoming noticeable sooner than it normally would. At least that would be my theory. I have a similar circumstance in that I practice mindfulness meditation daily, and after deadlifts or especially rack pulls I find my back getting fatigued and sore by the end of the session where normally I would have no issues.

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I found my back sore Saturday morning when I got up out of bed. Friday was a deadlift day (Hyp v2) and I was sitting in the home office chair for a couple of hours before bed. Usually my back is OK, but it comes and goes. Didn’t think much of it.

I have exactly the same thing.
No problems in the office. No problems when walking around, etc.
But in the car, after 45 minutes my lower back feels extremely tired. It’s very annoying but I havent noticed any other discomforts related to this. I mean, it’s not that over time my back started hurting also in other circumstances.
I wouldn’t worry about it.

Same here. Things that have worked for me is to raise the seat up as high as it will go. This allows me to set the cruise control (on longer trips), and thing bring my feet more directly under my knees which seems to help take some weight/stress off the low back. Also play with the lumbar support if your car has a control for this.

Yeah, I don’t worry much. It’s just that it makes something otherwise very pleasant to me in a bothersome situation. As soon as I get out of the car, it’s 100% again in 1 or 2 minutes. The survivability hypothesis makes sense… But thinking about how I sit in an office chair, maybe its simply a matter of less degrees of freedom while driving, and this may be the most “confined” (in a lack of another expression) situation I routinely find myself into.

My lumbar support is not adjustable, but the seat height may be useful… I’ll try it next time!