Spinning my wheels, with my back.

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I have had three bad back tweaks while doing highish (8-10) reps of deadlifts in several years of training. These take about 4-6 weeks to get back to squatting or deadlifts without pain. And probably a week or so just to walk without pain.

I gave up high rep deadlifts, but I still do high rep paused, RDLs, or any other variation.

Lately I added weighted back extensions on a GHD or Roman chair along with my twice a week core training, with the potentially naive belief that direct training of my lower back will somehow help prevent further tweaks.

Am I just waisting training time?

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Sorry to hear about this.

I would probably start with the following article:

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