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Hello,

my name is Fathor and I’m from Berlin, Germany. I’m male and 35 years old.
In the past years, I did lots of bodyweight training, but then decided to move to the iron.
I’m doing strength training like two years now (with little progress, but that’s another thing). Last summer, I’ve worked with a certified Starting Strength coach who recently gave me the advice to post my issue on this site.

My problem is that even I work out regularly (four time a week) and pay attention to the correct form, I have lower back pain like every 3-4 months.
My coach said that this is not normal and that I should try it with BM.

The thing is that I don’t hurt myself while working out, but in ‘everyday movements’. Three days ago, I just bent over to pick up something from the ground tweaked my lower back.
The day before, I did “hevy” deadlifts (90kg) without any pain or problem.
Like mentioned above, this happens quite often and I don’t know why. It’s very frustrating and I feel like strength training is just not my sport.

I got my spine checked with a MR like a year ago, there are no abnormalities other than age-related symptoms. I have no hollow cross either.

Do you have some advice? Thanks for reading and sorry for any possible mistakes with my English.
Feel free to ask further questions if I forgot some important information…

Have a nice weekend.

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Hi Fathor,

To clarify: you train four times per week and do not experience issues with training, but experience random back pain in daily life, and are concerned that “strength training is just not my sport”. It’s unclear why you are assuming these are related. There may be some training fatigue-related issues that are predisposing you to experiencing back pain in other contexts, but I don’t know this for certain.

With that said: while unpleasant, it is actually quite normal to experience random back pain like this as a part of life. We would recommend looking into our content on back pain (we have several lectures on YouTube, podcasts on the topic, as well as this article on our website: Pain in Training: What To Do? ).

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Hi Austin,

thank you very much for answering. I’m going to take a detailed look at the back pain content.
I’ve already watched some of your videos on YT about managing pain.

What I meant with “not my sport” was more about progression. I still haven’t figured out what’s the factor that’s limitating me (volume, effort, etc).
Maybe it’s even something about mentality, I don’t know.

Thanks again, best wishes.