Haha I vote for ditching them too. I talked with the guy that recently started training me. Leg curls was sort of a compromise. I plan on rotating a few exercises in the next 3-5 weeks. The big issue for me is that I can only handle so much with my lower back. The ruptured disc and chronic shit that goes along with it is a bummer. Obviously, the answer is to strengthen that region. And I am. On my leg day, between squats, leg press, and narrow stance squats, my lower back is extremely sore, even with great form. On back day, my lower back is what hurts the most from doing pendley rows. It's a very manageable pain and it's not the type that means that I'm going to reinjure my back. Being in the correct position and doing p rows with just the bar made my back sore during my warmup.

Right now, I can only handle squatting or deadlifting about once a week. I'm going to have to learn to manage the back along with everything else with this new program. The other issue is that with the high volume, my form turns to shit towards the end of a set. So my biggest question is at what point I need to end the set if I'm supposed to be training to failure or near failure. It depends on the exercise, how I feel, how bad my form is, etc. It's definitely something I'll have to learn to judge myself.

When I deadlift, I always keep it to triples or less just because this is one exercise where I can't let form get sloppy for obvious reasons. This is why he didn't prescribe RDLs, I think. GHRs are great, but stability in the lower back is still an issue. Pushing off should make it manageable. It's just difficult to add exercises for this because at the end of a workout, I have practically no lower back strength.

I have a list of exercises that I really, really want to do in a few weeks. (deadlifts, standing military, incline bb bench, one leg movements for squats, etc.) And there are a few that I can't wait to get rid of (leg press, flat bench press, etc.) Oh, I almost forgot; I severely strained my back again a few months ago & I'm still not back to where I was before that happened.

I'm going to talk over all of this with him tomorrow. I think hyper extensions might be a good choice in the short term.

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