Pain… too much?
No pain, no gain…. kinda. So I am getting used to being sore. But making sure I know the difference between soreness and injury is sometimes a little blurry to me. Especially with my lower back. I just started Deadlifts. And maybe I jumped into them too hard too fast. But it felt great. Yet now it’s been almost a week and my lower back is still sore. Though I still think it’s sore and not injured.
Yesterday my lower back soreness was too much for me as I tried to do squats, so I pushed harder on the leg press. But during a 50 Lbs jump up to a higher weight than I usually do, I felt a pop or tear or something happen to my muscles just below my left bottom rib. I wasn’t able to keep pushing hard, even when I immediately dropped the extra weight. So I did something. This is definitely an injury. Hopefully not too bad of an injury. Today I plan to do Back and Biceps, but my lower back soreness might mean I move back to Thursday or Friday this week. I am hoping that avoiding my chest and abs until next week will be enough time for my injury to heal.
I am still trying to get my fiber high enough so I can up my protein. I am still around 170-200g protein a day because of fiber issues. I would like to get my protein up to 240-260 a day. Yesterday was my first 61g fiber day at 200g protein, so we will see how things go and if 60+g fiber will be enough to jump my protein up to 240-260g a day.
