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Hello everyone,

I am a relative novice to the world of NROL and weight lifting in general. I have been an amateur road cyclist for about 4 years but have found it is not conducive to overall fitness; in other words I had strong legs but a weedy upper body.
This leads me onto my problem. At the moment I am doing the last leg of the FL I program dropping down to 10 reps with 45 sec rests. 6 weeks ago I started doing squats with 44kg and I am now up to 61.5kg. My legs find this weight very manageable (no knee or lower back problems) but my upper back between the shoulder blades is struggling (where the neck joins the back). I get a numb uncomfortable pain in this area and it hurts my spine. I spend most of my day sitting down at work and get a pain in the same area. My motivation is waning and I am afraid of causing myself long term damage.
Does anyone have any advice or has anyone suffered a similar problem?

All feedback is much appreciated