So after a not very restful sleep and a Tylenol 3 for pain I woke up this morning to a bit less pain then last night but I am still kind of immobile and sore.

I went to the clinic this morning and the doctor says that I have a sprained back. I now have a filled prescription for an anti-inflammatory and  a muscle relaxant.
I will be out of commission for about three days and the doctor said that I should take it easy for a while after that. So I am going to be worrying more about stretching and isometrics and give the weights a break, sad for me because I really felt that I was getting in the groove of my workouts.

I am still thinking about how I hurt my back and it was a classic case of leaving my back exposed while I was warming it up. As you have probably heard in the past you should lift with your legs not with your back, I was not doing that.

Here is exactly how I wrecked my lower back. Instead of using 25 pounds or so doing one armed rows on the bench, I crouched down to do rows on an angle with just 15 pounds per arm but because of the angle that my back was relative to the weights I was putting a lot of pressure on my lower back instead of stressing my upper back muscles.

I guess we live and learn but I did not really want ot go through any kind of back problems. I had some problems with my knees many years ago and first resorted to riding a bike to strengthen the muscles around my knee, now it looks like I will need to do the same with my core, strengthening my core of my abs and my back are now a real priority.

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