When I workout, I lift significant weight. Of course significant weight means different things for different exercises. Also, I tend to be conservative with the weights though I do lots of reps in each set.
My general workouts follow a full body approach though I’ve had to modify it. I was doing full squats (bar over back of neck, then bend at knee and waist) but I was continually injuring myself. The injuries were slight but as I’ve found the older you get the slower even slight injuries heal.
I also do dead lifts. This is the first time, this particular exercise caused me an injury. Of course, all injuries are do to bad form and lack of concentration. As someone who is conservative in his approach, I’m usually pretty focused on the exercise including form. Obviously this time, I failed somewhere though I didn’t feel any awkwardness or pain during the exercise.
The pain has last a few days so I’ve started icing (and I’ll do some ice/heat treatments) to help things along. I hope that this is not an exercise that I have to eliminate.