Well here's my first post and happy to be apart of this community! I've been reading into this forum a lot lately and decided to make an attempt to be apart of it.
Anyway, I'm 19 y/o and unfortunately been dealt a less than ideal hand of cards. After my last football game In April, I've suffered with chronic lower back pain.
At first I thought it was just the traditional stuff, tight muscles whatever, but I was unable to get out of bed and put socks on let alone anything else. Since April I've seem more doctors than I have my entire life. Three MRI's, a CT scan, and three neurosurgeons later to tell me that I'm just really unlucky to have the lumbar spine of somebody in their late 40's that labored their whole life. Not the kind of stuff I want to hear. My L4-L5 and L5-S1 discs are herniated causing sciatic pain; however, since I started hitting the weights again I think I've really made some progress reducing my overall pain.
The only thing I'd like to agree with the specialists is that strengthening my body (core) and losing weight is going to help me. Being a top level player, I had to learn how to strength train early, and IMO i did very well, but the main goal for me now is to lose weight, and I'm not good at that.
My best condition I weighed 240 at 6'1", I would guess in between 15-20% Bodyfat,
I started at 265 and I've lost 10 lbs and gained tons of strength back but I'm easily sitting around 25% now. My goal weight is
220 lbs but it's hard for me to not take in a lot of carbs to fuel my strength training as that's all I know to do. I seriously need to shed pounds off my once solid abdominals and now my stretch marked belly of fat.
Any advice is appreciated especially from people with knowledge of lumbar damage!
Anyway, I'm 19 y/o and unfortunately been dealt a less than ideal hand of cards. After my last football game In April, I've suffered with chronic lower back pain.
At first I thought it was just the traditional stuff, tight muscles whatever, but I was unable to get out of bed and put socks on let alone anything else. Since April I've seem more doctors than I have my entire life. Three MRI's, a CT scan, and three neurosurgeons later to tell me that I'm just really unlucky to have the lumbar spine of somebody in their late 40's that labored their whole life. Not the kind of stuff I want to hear. My L4-L5 and L5-S1 discs are herniated causing sciatic pain; however, since I started hitting the weights again I think I've really made some progress reducing my overall pain.
The only thing I'd like to agree with the specialists is that strengthening my body (core) and losing weight is going to help me. Being a top level player, I had to learn how to strength train early, and IMO i did very well, but the main goal for me now is to lose weight, and I'm not good at that.
My best condition I weighed 240 at 6'1", I would guess in between 15-20% Bodyfat,
I started at 265 and I've lost 10 lbs and gained tons of strength back but I'm easily sitting around 25% now. My goal weight is
220 lbs but it's hard for me to not take in a lot of carbs to fuel my strength training as that's all I know to do. I seriously need to shed pounds off my once solid abdominals and now my stretch marked belly of fat.
Any advice is appreciated especially from people with knowledge of lumbar damage!
