Lower back pain while doing squats deadlifts and other exercises

[finbridge]

I’ve had this lower back pain for the best part of a year now. It is basically a sharp pain going down both sides of my lower back. It feels like it goes down the muscles.

I used to do deadlifts of 8-12 reps any where from 60-80 kg (I am 15 btw) I think this could have triggered it. I allways did deadlift with a straight back and good form. Any exercises that involve the lower back I cannot do because it hurts too much.

Does anyone know what this is or has experienced it before. Any help is appreciated.

[jcreed77]

Back pain is generally due to:

1) Bad form. Sometime this form is based on your body as well--Some people can't go too low on squat or they'll butt wink and their lower back will hurt. Practice form and do what's comfortable to you. Also don't go too heavy too often to where you are always breaking form.

2) Lack of stretching. I hurt my lower back recently due to lack of stretching the muscle. Just like you wouldn't bench heavy weights without warming up your shoulders, you need to warm up and stretch your lower back before deadlifts and squats.

sharp pains are generally more dangerous as they could be signs of herniated discs.

[Gringer]

How were you deadlifting? Were you bringing the weight to a dead stop or were you bouncing it off the floor?

Slow eccentrics are pointless and have great potential to cause harm to the lower back too. This is how lots of folks get hurt.

[drjoe]

You may want to spend some time stretching and rolling your erectors and quadratus lumborum (QL) muscles. Here's a video I did recently on that topic. Give it a few weeks. Hope it helps!

https://youtu.be/9GZBV_aqBQs