Glad I'm not the only powerlifter on TID who reaizes you ain't shit without big gunz.
Don't good mornings irritate your lower back injury?
The good mornings only hurt if I flex my abs before the movement. Like a cold aching feeling in my lower back. No clue why. I'm looking for more stretch and reaction in my hamstrings when doing those.
My lower back is hurting because of pelvic tilt. The discomfort is being caused by my right psoas and right hamstring being tight as shit, drawing my lower spine down and drawing my pelvis down, creating irregular alignment everywhere (in my medical opinion pffffffff).
I had this problem a few years ago but the back pain was crippling. Went to my GP and they suggested the same bullshit ibuprofen and lower back stretches.
Went to Patient First and luckily one of the fill-ins was a sports medicine guy. He took X-rays of my lower back and noticed my hips were tilted abnormally. He referred me to his buddy (the PT) and we started working on range of motion. After a few months of doing the stretches I was pain free for almost two years. My stupid ass stopped the stretches though and now it's come back to haunt me. It was slow though... First, I was sitting down for long periods of time in a chair hunched over while drawing. Hamstrings tight, psoas tight... Class, hunched forward drawing. At home on the computer, etc. Then we moved to a new house and I kept pushing the limits of how much I could move by myself in a given time period, ignoring the burning pain with the help of whiskey and bourbon. I stopped hitting the gym for two months and came back to lift heavy again. Dumb!
Hoping that all this experimenting with bands and distraction and stretching and weakness-focused training will sort it all out. I'm finally starting to see separation in my hamstrings, can activate them rather easily and they're getting sore after squats and deads. My abs have gotten much stronger also, evidence being the increases in standed band crunches that have occurred recently.
I've come to the conclusion that the moment I think I know everything is the moment it all crumbles to shit.
So I'll continue the banded distractions for hips, lower back, shoulders and lats, keep mashing/stretching my pecs and biceps and stay foam rolling/stretching my hamstrings and traps.
I did some cool activation work prior to the arm workout that I stole from Ben Pakulski and it seemed to work really well. The concept containing a full stretch of the targeted muscle along with the tightest contraction possible, all within the same movement. Peep his activation videos on YouTube for a better explanation. He said once you learn to flex a muscle until it cramps a bit you've mentally connected with it. I tried with several muscle groups and have many I can't get to cramp. Interesting concept. My arms are stupid sore today so there might be merit to his activation techniques. Will try this with upper back stuff in about an hour.