Lower back/leg pain. Anyone else?

If you don't already, taking a magnesium and/or an electrolyte supplement could help. It also depends on the type of exercises you are doing. Overworked/underworked muscles = muscle imbalances = pain

If it's a "shooting" pain down your leg and your back also hurts, it's likely an impinged nerve. Rest and don't do any back exercises until you see is subsides. If not, go see an orthopedist to get an assessment.

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If by pain you mean soreness, my whole body hurts by end of the week.
If it's true pain, chances are is poor form and you need to raither take it easy or have it checked out.

pacsungurl47 wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

"Horrible lower back pain" should have you going to a doctor. Actual pain, rather than muscle soreness, is never good. Lay off the lifting until you have it straightened out. Don't try pushing through it.

I have tweaked my back doing exceedingly mundane tasks. Once I did it while bending over the sink to spit out toothpaste

I guess I shouldn't say horrible back pain lol. More like achy when I don't exercise but when I bend over to stand too long, it starts to hurt, sometimes a lot. I've been taking it easy from the gym.

I am totally confused.

It's horrible back pain but not horrible back pain.

It aches when you are not exercising. Does it hurt when you do exercise?

It hurts when you bend over to stand too long. What does that mean? Do you stand around bent over with your head dangling downward?

Nobody can help you if you can't even articulate what is wrong.

As a physiotherapist dealing solely with back pain and problem backs I'm here to tell you that lifting weights is something to be taken extremely carefully if you do not want to be dogged for a lifetime with the problem back. Technique is everything, but it was the best of techniques 'deadlifts' will always be a problem. See page,
Lifting weights becomes significant if you bear in mind that most spinal problems stem from the spinal segments being too jammed together, especially at the base. If you lift weights routinely, you can help yourself a great deal by doing your own spinal decompression every day. You will see in the small self-help regime attached, that lower abdominal strengthening goes hand in glove with spinal decompression. This points to why having a kidney belt is so important with lifting. See

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susanhung22 wrote: »

I deadlifted last week and basically injured my back. My left lower back is uncomfortable and also goes down to my leg and i deffs feel it in my glutes so its perfectly normal since every part of our body is connected. What ive been doing is yoga 2 times a daily and foam rolling. Ill be going back to the gym after a total of 2 weeks active rest

There's nothing normal about back pain that causes pain to shoot down a leg. Common? Maybe, but definitely not normal. That's called sciatica and it's from something sitting too close to the nerve, be it your piriformis muscle or a blown out disc.

If you were torqued or twisted lifting and you strained, your piriformis and flute muscles could spasm around this and theoretically cause leg and back pain that comes and goes. Foam rolling to flutes and piriformis is an easy thing to try, or roll on two tennis balls in a sock. Not medical advice but worth a try.

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Go to the Chiropractor, could be a messed up disk, pinched nerve, or hip alignment.