Hey GAF, so last week I was going about business in the gym as usual, when in the middle of the week I either used too much weight on a squat or deadlift, or fucked up my form for one of those exercises. I think it was probably the deadlift because that's the one I'm relatively new at. Anyway, since then whenever I try to squat, I can only get down halfway before the area encompassing the top of my butt and right above that starts to hurt too much for me to finish the movement. Against my better judgement I still did squats and deadlifts on friday, with the range of motion I was able to do without feeling pain. Flash forward to today, and I tried doing the exercises again, but it still hurt too much for me to complete the motion, so I just didn't do squats or DL today.
I've been researching deadlift form again in hopes to correct the problem, but how long should I wait before attempting the exercises again? The pain is present when I'm not in the gym as well, albeit as a very slight ache in my lower back.
Since I'm on a cut right now, I was considering just dropping the weights this week and doing HIIT on the elliptical. Normally I do weights MWF along with 25 to 30 minutes of standard cardio, and then HIIT on either Tu or Thurs, sometimes both.
The only thing I'm worried about though is that I won't be able to go to the gym next week because I'm getting my wisdom teeth out back in my home town, and won't be back to my apartment until around September 1st.
Anwaya GAF, what do you suggest I do? Are there exercises I can do that will give me a similar workout without having to put the pain in my lower back?
Thanks for any suggestions, and sorry if that was a little hard to understand haha.
edit: I can do the exercises fine with low weight, but when I go to the weight I can currently do (Around 150 for squats) is when it hurts too much to finish
