u6at_siganin_marcelo
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Hi, (18 M) here. Been doing front lever for almost 2 years. I can hold a solid 15-20 seconds with straight arms and clean form.
One day I was doing some front lever raises with negatives (I saved that exercise for the end of my training session) and on the last set and rep while I was doing the last FL negative, I felt a bit of a pain on my left quadratus lumborum.
I immediately thought I injured myself, so the reasonable decision to do was to skip some FL training and give a rest on this specific back muscle. I rested for a few 2-3 days and when I performed a FL again after that, the pain in my back muscle was still there. Then I gave myself even a longer period of rest, depriving myself from doing FL for a while.
When I did a FL after that rest, at first the pain was gone, I thought the trauma has recovered. But after continues FL holds, the trauma was gradually becoming sensitive again and with each new FL hold, getting worse.
This cycle of resting and getting my trauma sensitive again on FL holds has repeated for 5 months already. I’ve minimized my FL performance to the point of doing it just for the sake of not losing the movement. I can’t progress on it anymore without sacrificing my back muscle.
What do you think? Is it normal for that trauma to seem to be endless and do you think it can be threatened at all? Or do you think I should be using a specific technique while performing the front lever to minimize the amount of pain?
One day I was doing some front lever raises with negatives (I saved that exercise for the end of my training session) and on the last set and rep while I was doing the last FL negative, I felt a bit of a pain on my left quadratus lumborum.
I immediately thought I injured myself, so the reasonable decision to do was to skip some FL training and give a rest on this specific back muscle. I rested for a few 2-3 days and when I performed a FL again after that, the pain in my back muscle was still there. Then I gave myself even a longer period of rest, depriving myself from doing FL for a while.
When I did a FL after that rest, at first the pain was gone, I thought the trauma has recovered. But after continues FL holds, the trauma was gradually becoming sensitive again and with each new FL hold, getting worse.
This cycle of resting and getting my trauma sensitive again on FL holds has repeated for 5 months already. I’ve minimized my FL performance to the point of doing it just for the sake of not losing the movement. I can’t progress on it anymore without sacrificing my back muscle.
What do you think? Is it normal for that trauma to seem to be endless and do you think it can be threatened at all? Or do you think I should be using a specific technique while performing the front lever to minimize the amount of pain?