ot; the back

[scaredyclassic]

the other side

[scaredyclassic]

im grateful for my back. many times we are focussed only on what we can see…the front. we don’t think about the back. but the back does the heavy lifting.

take care of your backs today, piggingtonians. don’t slouch, take a walk after dinner, stretch it out.

[CA renter]

Very impressive, scaredy!

Now, go eat some pie! 🙂

[scaredyclassic]

Anyone out there suffering from back pain might be cured with a much stronger back.

[CA renter]

[quote=6packscaredy]Anyone out there suffering from back pain might be cured with a much stronger back.[/quote]

Probably. But to be perfectly honest, I think the vast majority of people out there don’t have the willpower and discipline to do whatever it is that you’re doing to get that back.

Keep it up!

[NotCranky]

WHy fix your back with strength when insurance covers surgery and pain meds?

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Blogstar]WHy fix your back with strength when insurance covers surgery and pain meds?[/quote]

true. the machine does not want us to be strong. it wants us weak. sometimes it feels like we’ve set up a society to encourage and promote physical weakness. I mean, really, if we wanted our people to be even weaker, how could we improve things to incentivize further weakness?

this is not an outstanding result.

this could be achieved with 90 minutes per week on the back.

it would take that long to go to CVS and fill the rx.

there is no reason not to have a reasonably powerful back. I don’t know how or why I lived almost 50 years being a weakling.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=CA renter][quote=6packscaredy]Anyone out there suffering from back pain might be cured with a much stronger back.[/quote]

Probably. But to be perfectly honest, I think the vast majority of people out there don’t have the willpower and discipline to do whatever it is that you’re doing to get that back.

Keep it up![/quote]

i feel confident anyone could geta strong back if they decided that they were going to do it. they would need to flip a switch in their brain that said, i am going to get a strong back.

and they must.

think about the spine. a snakey bone , flexy, with lots of nerves that can get pinched, discs that have to keep their distance from one another, charged with holding upand moving our body from place to place. without a decent muscular base, why would we expect to feel anything but pain and discomfort? why would we expect those bones to not crunch together and irritate nerves?

there is no choice in life for most of us but to develop and strengthen the back. or to just submit to misery.

[EconProf]

OK 6pack, we get it. You like deadlifts to strengthen the back. However, years ago when I was heavily into weightlifting, I got a back spasm overdoing deadlifts.
Try yoga instead, plus eliminating the gut. A big belly puts a lot of strain on backs. And if you do serious yoga and own property, your chant can be “Appreciation…appreciation….appreciation…”

[scaredyclassic]

i admit i am a little overenthusiastic.

but i do feel better.

also i stand up straight now.

[svelte]

[quote=6packscaredy]i admit i am a little overenthusiastic.

but i do feel better.

also i stand up straight now.[/quote]

You’ll probably stand up very straight after you hear what I think of when you start talking about backs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJu7r6OUvk

[CA renter]

[quote=6packscaredy]

i feel confident anyone could geta strong back if they decided that they were going to do it. they would need to flip a switch in their brain that said, i am going to get a strong back.

and they must.

think about the spine. a snakey bone , flexy, with lots of nerves that can get pinched, discs that have to keep their distance from one another, charged with holding upand moving our body from place to place. without a decent muscular base, why would we expect to feel anything but pain and discomfort? why would we expect those bones to not crunch together and irritate nerves?

there is no choice in life for most of us but to develop and strengthen the back. or to just submit to misery.[/quote]

Exercise is good, but overdoing it can be every bit as bad for your body as not exercising. I’ve known many, many people (including myself) who’ve sustained injuries during exercise/sports that will negatively affect them for the rest of our lives.

Still, I think your story is compelling and inspirational. What did you look like before you started your exercise kick a few years back?

[scaredyclassic]

Felt like mr burns.

Kid was on hs swim team and getting very muscular.

I was feeling extremely unmuscled in part by comparison.

I did and wouldnot take shirtless photos.

Forearms werecespeciallyvalarming. Theyre still thin from genetics but theyvwere rudiculiys like a weird old bony man. Nit gogood.

I wss skinny yet fat.

Soft looking. Except legs from cycling.

Re injuries…most guys in the gym go to the dumbbell rack pick up too much weight and swing it in a wild uncontrolled bicep curl. Thats most of the session.

Tge sane philosophy seems to bleed over to everything.

do everything at too much weight out if control swinging the weight w momentum and twisting the back to conpensate.

if injurues remain the concern the simple pullup and dip will cover most of thr upoer body snd its difficult to hurt onesself

Do a pulluo w kegs extended srraight when they get easy.

do a muscleup.

Climb a rope. Pick up your dumbells and go for acwalk till you cant hold them any more

do the plank. Youll get hard all over abd the risk of injury approaches zero
Rate of injury in weight training is fairly low per my research. Esp from above ideas.

ill find the study later

[scaredyclassic]

cant find good data on rates of weightlifting injuries v other sports…

but:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/10/971022155847.htm

basically says strength training reduces the risk of injury.

i mean, heck, i know a guy who completely tweaked his back just bending down to pick up soemthing light in normal life.

there’s risk all over from weakness, as well as attempting to get strong. intuitively, it seems like being strong is going to protect one from bad things happening to body systems, and that’s what the above article seems to say…

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=EconProf]OK 6pack, we get it. You like deadlifts to strengthen the back. However, years ago when I was heavily into weightlifting, I got a back spasm overdoing deadlifts.
Try yoga instead, plus eliminating the gut. A big belly puts a lot of strain on backs. And if you do serious yoga and own property, your chant can be “Appreciation…appreciation….appreciation…”[/quote]

yeah, if you ahve a big belly, that’s the first priority. that shoudl probably go before weightlifting. heck, just standing up and walking up stairs is probably enough weightlifting.

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