for how long?

That will be up to your Doctor and you. This is not something you want to apply the "man up" thesis to.

I understand. I'm talking about in typical cases? Is it something that will heal on its own?

How long until I will be able to sit upright in a chair without pain?

I don't want to give you any false hope, but a similar thing happened to me 20 years ago the very first time I tried to deadlift. Brutal pain to the point I couldn't even breathe without it hurting. Like a complete ****ing idiot I went to a chiropractor, and $86 later it was even worse.

Later that evening my aunt came by with some Relafen samples from the Doctor's office she worked at. 20 minutes later the pain was gone, and it never returned. I didn't mess around with deadlifting again until a few years later, and I sure as hell didn't round my lower back anymore.

I am hesitant to post this as could come off as irresponsible attempt at dispensing medical advice, but you might want to look into before going under the knife. Hopefully you'll get lucky like I did.

guy i was working in with said he thought i held the bar pretty far down on my back even for LBBS. he said it looked like it was a few inches lower than it normally would be. anything wrong with that if it's comfortable for me?

5/3/1 question: Are there assistance exercises in the deload week or is it just the main lifts and you're done?

you can play it by ear. i think he recommends main lifts and you're done. My plan is no deadlifting at all and doing some assistance stuff to bring up weak points (upper back).

I say just go and do ******ed stuff that you never do but always wanted to try for teh lulz.

kettletarding, medball slams and throws, OH squats, hack squats, all that lulz sh*t that is cool but you never get to try.

Squatting once a week already feels way too less, so squatting on the deload week with no assistance will feel like a light jog. I don't want to go TOO easy on myself, but I also don't want to hamper recovery. YKWIS?

Troll opportunities abound.

Pretty sure Wendler recommends doing assistance lifts at 50% as well. I can confirm later (paper version of the book) if you want.

I went ahead and did the 50% assistance lifts anyway. Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, ftw (ftl?). Thanks guys.

Should I order "the new rules of lifting for women" for my girlfriend? She wants to start a programs but doesn't know where to start.

just buy Starting Strength: 3rd edition, and slap a "for women" sticker on it. maybe scent some pages.

Wouldn't hurt since it's so cheap, especially if she needs nice pictures and stuff.

Or you just use the program laid out on 70sbig.com (which is directed towards the females every Monday). The basic program given on the website was:

Day A
Press
Squat
Back extension
Tabata stationary cycle


Day B
Bench
RDL
Assisted Pull-up machine
30/30 Running Interval

I got my wife to do SS before and I don't think I'd recommend SS for a newb female again...solely b/c most aren't the least bit interested in strength training seriously or maximizing their LP. Compliance is far more important than optimal programming imo. The program listed above is better than any program listed in Women's Health or whatever...baby steps +++

Obviously this would be different if she is an athlete/competing in sport.

Does anyone randomly get sweet taste in their mouth? I started getting it a couple of months ago, but I haven't narrowed it down to any specific food.

I think it happens after Muscle Milk more often than anything else, but not immediately after. Like a couple hours later when any chemical in my mouth should have washed away by now.

Why would you drink muscle milk? Does not compute.

convenient

man i mustve hurt somethin pretty good in my rib/upper ab area while squatting other day, was getting better and decided not to skip workout today, completed squats but couldnt even complete first workset of OHP because of pain. working out today made it quite a bit worse and a sneeze just now is what prompted me to post because its painful to move at this point. its like upper-right ab near bottom of ribcage. feels like its the muscle because it hurts whenever i bend certain ways/walk/strain stomach muscles. hurts when poked too tho. any ideas? guess all i can do is rest and take lil time off to see how its doin? maybe doctor after that, i dono this sucks.

I hit a new PR on the deadlift today and was pretty close to passing out but sat straight down after putting the bar down and was ok after a minute or two. But now, like 4-5 hours later I feel a bit physically slow and a little dizzy/light headed. HAs anyone else experienced this?

He has:

rofls me everytime

I especially like how his friend is just lol'ing when the guy obv bangs his head pretty hard on the DBs.

Haha that will be me next session probably

I recently start eating less meat and more fruits/veggies after reading the information here:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritio...ory/index.html

Just wanted a second opinion about this diet, i obviously consider it pretty good advice because people from harvard tend to be pretty smart.

How many times a week do you eat red meat? poultry? fish?

Has anyone cut back on meat consumption in favor of other sources of protein?

You really should keep a critical mind when looking at nutrition research. Harvard, even though they are a school of very bright people, produces some of the most flawed and biased nutrition research that's out there.

With that said, there seems to be 2 major reasons I see against eating meat:

1. Red meat & other meat high in saturated fat: the negative effects of saturated fat in general are extremely overhyped. If you're curious to see some actual studies that show this let me know, but I'm not gonna go dig them up if you don't care that much. Generally the research that things like what you linked to references goes something like "fat/sedentary people with high blood pressure and high cardiovascular disease risk eat saturated fat -----> saturated fat will kill you"

2. The acidity/alkalinity conundrum: from what I gather, meat is in general acidic to your body, while fruits and vegetables are generally alkalinic (however you spell that). But your body regulates its pH level so precisely anyway, and eating a generally balanced diet should make this a totally nonissue, if it's even an issue to begin with, which many people don't think it is.

TLDR: Eat meat dude. We're omnivores.