Raashid’s BodyBlog

As someone who was plagued with lower back pain for most of his youth, it was pleasant tohave enjoyed a few years of back-pain free training - until last Monday.

"Heavy" squats did for my lower back again and put all my training out for the rest of the week, eating into my bulking.  I put heavy in quotes - because of late they’ve not been as heavy as they were at the end of my last bulk cycle.  I now seem to have identified the cause of my back problem:  a left leg slightly shorter then my right.  Whether this is some natural defect or something that has been caused by years of bad training form I don’t know, but squats have of late always tilted to my left.

Anyway, I’m going to have to put squats on the back burner for the foreseeable future.  I’ll have to use hack squats as my main thigh exercise and use light squats as my supplementary exercise.  Let’s just hope it doesn’t result in dramatic decrease in leg strength!