I bet a chiro diagnosed that and you never shelled our for an mri while you were having back pain?
Tight hammies are caused by sciatic irritation from degenerated discs not the other way around.
Stretching out your hammies can help relive the compression on the disc but it is the disc pressing on the nerve that causes all that tightness in the first place.
If the placebo effect of the roller works for ya keep at it. Couple sets of light stiff legs would give you exactly the same result for alot less effort.
Did you even read my last post? I said hip flexors, not hamstrings. Completely different group of muscles and issues, especially if you drive a desk like I do all day.
Anyways, each to their own. I am happy to chime in with any further advice regarding myofacial / trigger point therapy and things I've learnt along the way to anyone happy to listen. In fact one kind soul on this very board helped me resolve my hip flexor issue when a chiro and osteo did not even look in that area.
I confused your post with the one by @highroad; but my point stands unless.
FFS you thought you have damaged discs turns out you don't cause someome on a forum gave you the magic cure for it.
Deluded much? Just cause your not injured now doesn't mean your myo facial is doing anything.
Now if you had before and aftet scans then yes you probably could attribute it to that.
BB forums are not dr's, just cause someone says its so doesn't make it fact.
Motivation should come from within, on the Sunday i cut my hand open and required stitches, the next day i walked straight to the Safety Squat bar and started squatting.
If you look for excuses, you will always find them.
Long story short have strained my lower back while doing deadlifts last weekend which was 100% my own fault being lazy with only 100kg on the bar warming up and not showing respect for the weight and form slipped enough to injure me.
Pretty much squats, good mornings, front squats and deadlifts are all out at the moment ( i have tried even light weight on squatting and it instantly flared it up ) for possibly 3-4 weeks at least. In the meantime I am going to concentrate mainly on my upper body lifts which dont cause me any dramas, surprisingly medium weight military press doesnt cause an issue... So trying to stay positive and look at this in the best way I can as an opportunity to work on upper body weaknesses while I cant squat or deadlift heavy.
Biggest thing im dealing with already is feeling like shit because im not squatting and deadlifting, I squat twice a week and always have and not doing them just makes me feel like a pussy, I know its purely ego but how do you guys keep yourself in a positive mindset whilst recovering from an injury?
I still will do some lower body shit that I can manage, leg extensions etc. shit i normally never would do but i gotta keep some kind of load on my legs or they will just go to shit...
Doing my fkn head in not being able to push myself hard like I normally do, going to be a long recovery mentally
I believe that you need to stay away from the mind-set that you are injured.
Today I did 4 reps on 100g squat, first time in nearly 2 years I have squatted 2 plates. I am about 50kg down on what I squatted in 2011 (160kg with belt) in powerlifting comp, but I am just rapped to be squatting again.
The mindset of capability yet be cautious.
All for myofascial release. That book really helped with a bunch of my problems. Helped with range of motion, knee pains, back pains. Helped my daily posture too.Yes I'm playing Doctor
When someone like Mark Bell, arguably one of the strongest and most knowledgable powerlifters in the world talks highly of Kelly Starrett you should probably take notice.
Kelly Starrett changed my life! Mark Bell Power
Kelly Starrett | SuperTraining.TV
Another good resource for the techniques I use for anyone interested.
functionalpatterns - YouTube
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