To elaborate, my deadlift was 120kg (264lb) and I also had some overvigorous leg stretches done during a massage later that day, and that's when the piece crack

To elaborate, my deadlift was 120kg (264lb) and I also had some overvigorous leg stretches done during a massage later that day, and that's when the piece cracked off painfully. Suffice to say I think I actually had a lower back injury from when I was a teenager and I was 48 at the time I did this injury. It was either the deadlift or the massage or both that were the final straw for the disk between my L4/L5 vertebrae and it happened while working on form with my trainer. Not disagreeing with you, I'll happily deadlift only up 25kg but it still only six months after my surgery so ...