Hi All,
My Stats age 38 weight 130 lbs body fat 8 % been lifting 8 years and my diet is really dialed in.
Question I have recently hurt my lower back right about on my belt line. I have been to the doc and had xrays done and the doc determined a strained muscle. Sometimes the pain in the morning is so bad that it is difficult to put my socks and under wear on. I have determined through a process of elimination 2 exercises that are aggravating my back which are my ab workout which had a lot of leg lift involved and heavy bench press. When i say heavy bench i mean when lifting 225 or more on the free weight bench. So i changed my ab workout and started working my chest press exercises on the hammer strength machines for about 3 weeks and the pain seemed to have gone away. however i went back to free weight bench press last Saturday and sure enough my back got real sore again for a couple of days after the workout. Now it was not near as sore as it was before resting for 3 weeks but it was sore enough that i was uncomfortable for those couple of days. Any ideas of things i could do to help speed up my poor old recovering lower back? Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank for reading my post!

JIM