Fast Fitness - Better Legs and Pain Relief Comes From You Not The Exercise Ball
Friday, April 03, 2009
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
- How fit is it to use fitness equipment in unhealthy ways?
- When you pick up and put down an exercise ball, or any exercise equipment, how do you bend? Unhealthfully? During an activity you use to improve your health?
- Robert Davis sent in this change of bad bending to good bending . Good bending shifts weight and leverage off lumbar discs and onto leg, hip, and back muscles.
Robert Davis wrote. "I had to use my cell phone on timer so the pictures are not the greatest quality."
Here is the ouchy
Here is the squat
Robert Davis was a weight lifter with a painful back injury from conventional lifting. He fixed his back pain with Fitness Fixer, intelligently applying principles of healthful movement for everything during exercise and also daily life. He wrote:
"I took a picture of what was causing "ouchy" because it is so normal in America *for adults!*.. (upper photo of forward bending). Then ouchy started to go away the more I did, 'ah much better' (squatting)... Pretty soon ouchy was gone from the bad forward bending.
"I am now doing a complete head to toe revision... Point was that my back stopped hurting, and as you said, heals when I let it, with better movement.
"I am glad there is someone out there like you who tells you how it is. It gives encouragement and hope. I have seen people my age already with a few surgeries (and they are in the 20s to 30s!). They were from injuries, and sadly they never had a chance to find that they didn't need it.
"I was encouraged by others' stories and with your statement, "don't let them scare you" because I was a bit scared. I have never been injured before with that much pain. But, I was more then willing to try this because I did not want limitation as I had seen in my friends who had surgery. Some multiple times. "
Mr. Davis has been sending in success stories one after then next. Here are some of his Inspiring Functional Fitness:
Related Posts to Change Unhealthful Exercise
- Are You Making Your Exercise Unhealthy?
- The Cause of Disc and Back Pain
- How Often Should You Be Healthy?
- Common Exercises Teach Bad Bending
- Lung Training from the Exercise Ball
- Does an Exercise Ball Make You Sit Straight?
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Read and contribute your own success stories of these methods. Before asking questions, see if your answers are already here - click labels under posts, links in posts, archives at right, and the Fitness Fixer Index. Subscribe to The Fitness Fixer, free. Click "updates via e-mail" (under trumpet) upper right.
For answers to personal medical questions - Replies to Medical Questions. Limited Class spaces for personal evaluation. Top students may apply to certify through DrBookspan.com/Academy. See Dr. Bookspan's Books.
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Read and contribute your own success stories of these methods. Before asking questions, see if your answers are already here - click labels under posts, links in posts, archives at right, and the Fitness Fixer Index. Subscribe to The Fitness Fixer, free. Click "updates via e-mail" (under trumpet) upper right.
For answers to personal medical questions - Replies to Medical Questions. Limited Class spaces for personal evaluation. Top students may apply to certify through DrBookspan.com/Academy. See Dr. Bookspan's Books.
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Labels: exercise ball, fast fitness, fix pain, lower back, readers inspiring story, squat, surgery
6 Comments:
At Friday, April 03, 2009 3:50:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
What is the proper alignment for picking up something that is not at your feet? How do you pick up something when you have to reach forward? eg. something from the back of your trunk, or the other side of the bathtub. I have been lifting one leg keeping it in line with my spine. Is that correct?
Carol
At Saturday, April 04, 2009 8:11:00 PM,
Emily Gibbs said…
Dr. Bookspan,
I just discovered your articles today and am a little overwhelmed by all the information you provide! I am a 23-year-old female and I've had lower back/hip/sciactic pain for about 3 years, which can be debilitating at times and nonexistant at other times. I also have had an achy upper back on one side since I was 13. I've been to chiropractors, given exercises, etc, but nothing seems to help long-term.
Which of your resources would you point me to? Ab Revolution? Articles on posture? Any direction you could give me would be wonderful! Thank you!
At Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:52:00 AM,
Anton said…
Hi Dr. Bookspan,
I've been using various of your techniques for reducing muscular lower-back pain from your Fix Your Own Pain and The Ab Revolution books. I've had much success! Lately, I've become more interested in moving from the functional and pain-relief aspects to more strengthening. In your Ab Revolution book you speak of using the Roman Chair for Ab training and back extensions. Do I understand you correctly that you think the Roman Chair is okay, as long as proper form is used?
Thanks,
Anton
At Monday, April 27, 2009 4:01:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
doesn't this just wear out the knees instead?
At Monday, April 27, 2009 4:52:00 PM,
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
Anonymous, Good news. Good bending prevents both unequal disc loading and shifts weight onto the leg muscles and off the knee joints. That's the beauty of it.
Click Free Exercise and Free Back and Knee Pain Prevention - Healthy Bending.
At Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:40:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Thanks doc :)
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