Originally Posted by Corsaire

My lower back has been preventing me from climbing to my full potential in the last few past weeks. It didn't bothered me much during the peak summer season as I was climbing real well, but as the season is winding down my lower back has started to protest loudly again, is not really so much about pain, but more about making my buttock and thigh muscles real tight and tense when doing the steep climbs I've been attempting as of lately, I know I'm in shape but once my muscles ( and I can feel it coming) tensed up from my lower back down I'm done, making me work up the hills twice as hard slowing me to almost a crawl.

I stretch a lot, do lower back extensions, a lot of abs work outs and still comes back, don't know what to do anymore. I've been doing what Mike Carmichael calls "Leg Muscle tension" work out for climbers or doing repeats on high gear to make me stronger, but unforunately some of those work-out leaves me sore in my lower back the next day, perhaps I shouldn't do them, very frustrating 'cause I really want to improve. I'v tried high cadence in lower gears too which is fine in short steep climbs, but when I get into the long climbs everything changes.

Any advise from you guys with back problems ?

Corsaire