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I herniated a disc rock climbing. Scared shitless of it happening again.
Oh it'll put a fear of god in you for sure. Anything back, really. Before I started lifting, i used to sit in the most fucked up positions imaginable until a day when I felt this shooting pain as if someone snapped my spine right in half. I fell on the ground and couldn't get up for about 20 min. It will make you paranoid as fuck for months. Any time i get my back spasms i dread deadlifting for weeks and sometimes a month or two. But lifting is what saved my back in the long run. I no longer go past, say, 85% of my max on DL. I'm focused on total control of the movement and perfect form on every rep. I know I'll probably never progress as fast as if I worked like Westside guys do, but I also know I'm not an athlete in his early 20s. You gotta be smarter and smarter over time. My wife turns 30 in December and she just got her first back spasms, not even that bad compared to what I've had in the past, and she was like wtf, totally got paranoid that it was something much more serious, started overanalyzing, looking shit up online and stuff. She's strong, probably stronger than 95% of women anywhere, hell, her numbers started creeping up on mine (i could usually outlift her 2:1 in weight everywhere, now we're at 1.5:1 at best) but she also has 6 years on me and an actual athletic background, so she's been fine doing her lifting the way she's been used to, very little stretching, very heavy weights etc. until now. She's at a chiro literally right now for the second day in a row, and I think she's finally realizing that she needs to start making adjustments, that her body's piling miles on it and that she needs to start getting smarter about how she trains if she's wants to stay healthy and strong. Age and mileage are real. You gotta be smart.