Quote: (11-08-2018 06:00 AM)Dulceácido Wrote:
Sick! That's really awesome, Bro! Very impressive, but are you concerned there is gonna be a price to pay later? I can't imagine this being good for your spine in the long term.
I'm gonna answer this question for OP as this post illustrates an incredibly common misconception with back/pulling exercises like this:
You are not going to damage your spinal vertebrae pulling or deadlifting. In fact it's almost impossible. The only lift that poses any sort of potentially serious risk to your spinal cord is squats.
The reason why pulling and deadlifting doesn't hurt your spine is because you aren't loading weight on your spine nor are you putting it in any kind of harmfully compromised position - your back muscles and arms are taking the load. Your spinal erector muscles will fail FAR before your bones will fail. If you hurt your back deadlifting, it is a muscle-related issue 99.9% of the time.
On that note, squats are really the only lift that put you in danger of getting bulging/herniated and damaged discs and sciatica, because you are loading heavy weight directly on top of your spinal column vertically which can cause compression. Lots of power lifters have experienced disc injuries related to heavy squatting.