Originally Posted by Eric3237

Sounds like your back muscles need a break to recover. It could pay to lighten up some things. Luckily, MP's will have to go lighter for a bit so that will help. And for the lighter work you need to ditch the belt. It should come as no suprise to anyone when they here "I didn't wear my belt and not my back hurts". That does not translate into "the belt is my saviour" it translates into "i am dependent on the belt or I will hurt my back".

Drop the uni RDL's for a while.

But yeah....this is the reality of real strength work. Your back bares the brunt of it.

Just watch in on the overhead press. You can't lose concentration. I don't expect when going for max loads that everthing will be perfect. When you are back to lighter loads you shouldn't have to lean back so much. Stop looking up at the bar...that's a habit that can be difficult to break but where the head goes the body follows.