I've been injured in a hundred different ways, a hundred different times, but never had an ab injury from lifting.
I did dead lifts yesterday, and then switched to RDLs. Into my second set as I went down and just as I'm about to go back up I felt something in my upper left ab side. Scared that it was a hernia I stopped immediately. I didn't see any protrusion [even tried flexing/coughing and saw nothing] so I went back and did pull ups.
Realizing there was still discomfort I stopped and iced the area and thought it would go away. But now it's feeling worse. In fact if I sit around casually hunched over on my laptop for a while, it gets much worse. If I try to go upright and stretch my abs reverse arching my back from the hunched position I feel discomfort in that ab area.
Anyone have any experience with hernias, or ab strains? I wasn't actually using much weight. Was only at 185lbs which is my body weight. I used to do a sport that involved a lot of legs and back effort for years and have a very strong lower body for my body type. [6'3" and lanky]. I don't ever go for max lifts anymore. I have cracked my ribs from sports before which could have been attributed to deficient obliques/side abs for the amount of stress I was putting on my lower body. Don't know if that is relevant. Right now I haven't been doing much except occasional icing and just resting.
Any advice? Is this more serious than I am imagining it to be? Should I get it checked?
Cheers,
SS
I did dead lifts yesterday, and then switched to RDLs. Into my second set as I went down and just as I'm about to go back up I felt something in my upper left ab side. Scared that it was a hernia I stopped immediately. I didn't see any protrusion [even tried flexing/coughing and saw nothing] so I went back and did pull ups.
Realizing there was still discomfort I stopped and iced the area and thought it would go away. But now it's feeling worse. In fact if I sit around casually hunched over on my laptop for a while, it gets much worse. If I try to go upright and stretch my abs reverse arching my back from the hunched position I feel discomfort in that ab area.
Anyone have any experience with hernias, or ab strains? I wasn't actually using much weight. Was only at 185lbs which is my body weight. I used to do a sport that involved a lot of legs and back effort for years and have a very strong lower body for my body type. [6'3" and lanky]. I don't ever go for max lifts anymore. I have cracked my ribs from sports before which could have been attributed to deficient obliques/side abs for the amount of stress I was putting on my lower body. Don't know if that is relevant. Right now I haven't been doing much except occasional icing and just resting.
Any advice? Is this more serious than I am imagining it to be? Should I get it checked?
Cheers,
SS
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