Low back pain costs businesses $225.8 Billion per year in healthcare expenses, sick days, and decreased productivity.
Here’s 3 steps to fix your low back pain for good:
#1) Stop Skipping Deadlifts
When you skip deadlifts you're giving the middle finger to your back strength.
When the muscles on your backside are weak, you experience forward leaning posture, overactive hip flexors and rounded shoulders.
All of which can cause your low back pain.
Although deadlifts do hit every major muscle group on your backside, there are more ways to train these muscles. Here are some of my favorites:
- T-Bar/Chest Supported Rows
- Lat Pulldowns
- Seated Rows
- GHD/Partner Nordic Curls
- Banded Hamstring Curls
- SL Hip Thrust
- Pull Throughs
- Barbell Bent Rows
- Good-mornings
- Back Extension
- Rack Pulls
A strong back is a pain free low back.
#2) Strengthen Your Core
When your core is weak, posture & movement quality drops. This forces other muscles to compensate and take on loads they're not designed to take on.
You should be training your core every workout with varying ranges of motion and loads using the following exercises:
- Heavy Deadlifts
- Heavy Squats
- Heavy Overhead Pressing
- Planks/Weighted Planks
- Bear Crawls
- Banded Standing Abs
- Suitcase Carries
- Band crunches
- Standing Twists (cable or band)
- Pallof Press (cable or band)
- Wrestler's Twists
- Weighted Decline Situps
- Weighted Knee Raises
- Banded Dead Bugs
- Ab Wheel Rollout
A strong core supports a pain free low back.
#3) Hip and Thoracic Spine Mobility
Mobility is our ability to actively move through a full range of motion efficiently and in a pain free manner. When our hips or thoracic spine are tight, that causes other muscle groups to compensate, leading to pain. Think about it like this:
Tight Hips ➡️ Low Back Compensates ➡️Low Back Pain
Tight T-Spine ➡️ Low Back Compensates ➡️Low Back Pain
My hip mobility routine:
- Runners stretch variants
- Coccyx Squat
- 90-90 holds
- 90-90 rolls
- Pelvic tilts
- Bicycles
My t-spine mobility routine:
- Frog Squat w/ reach
- Thread the Needle
- Bird Dogs
- Cat Cow
Mobile hips and thoracic spine unlocks a pain free low back.
While these might not be the only reasons you have low back pain, I can guarantee that if you:
#1) Stop skipping deadlifts and strengthen your back
#2) Strengthen your core
#3) Improve your hip and thoracic spine mobility
You will significantly reduce, if not eliminate your low back pain completely.
Thanks for reading ✌️
Everyone has their 2020 election “opinion” but this is the one chart that to this day, I can’t stop thinking about.
For the past 70 years the following bellwether counties you see below have successfully elected the US president.
Until 2020… when the majority of bellwether counties voted for Trump yet Biden ended up winning.
This graph alone doesn’t prove fraud yet it does raise many questions that we weren’t allowed to ask until recently.
Marriage is risky.
Staying single is riskier.
Having children is risky.
Being childless is riskier.
Believing in God is risky.
Not believing in God riskier.
Discussing politics is risky.
Being silent about politics is riskier.
Being part of a startup is risky.
Choosing a safe route is riskier.
It’s not the risk that’s scary.
It’s the commitments that comes with the risk.
Choose your commitments wisely.
Every American should understand our situation as it stands right now.
You’ve all been trained to be loyal to political party’s just like you are loyal to a sports team, but for our country’s very own survival, you must put down your mascot and see things clearly.
We are in $31 Trillion dollars in debt bc of the politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now, and these same politicians want a clean debt ceiling increase with no strings attached so they can just keep insanely spending your hard earned tax dollars until we fully collapse.
We are on the brink of nuclear world war from our involvement in the Ukraine/Russia war because of the politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now, and the top guy in the “free press” got fired for talking about it because the owners of the media company support defending Ukraine’s border and talked to Ukraine’s president about it.
Our border is out of our control and invaded daily by thousands of people and deadly drugs because of the politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now, but your being told by everyone that Ukraine’s border is the only border we must defend.
Big corporate banks backed by the Treasury are swallowing smaller banks in terrifying speed while these same politicians aligned with others, who have financial interests, are moving America along with the world to digital currency.
At the same time America is being converted to electric vehicles by the same politicians and their financially invested friends, not because of consumer demand or bc electric vehicle batteries are American made and good for the environment bc they’re not.
When everything is digital and electric will Americans still blindly trust those same old politicians who wave their beloved political mascot as they hold the full power to turn off your bank account and power to drive and re-charge and censor your ability to even speak about it, if you go against the current thing?
Corporate Communism is a very real threat to individual freedoms and independence and America is nearly fully controlled by it because of the same old politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now.
So while they are failing America by putting you $31 Trillion in debt and now arrogantly demanding another debt ceiling increase while pretending to care about our border security while our BPA are overwhelmed with over 22,000 border apprehensions and countless gotaways in the past 3 days, and Title 42 will be lifted May 11th which will open our floodgates, they are drooling with bloodlust for their precious war against nuclear Russia in Ukraine “defending democracy” instead of responsibly brokering a peace deal between the two countries and using our military to defend our own border that is heavily controlled by the cartels.
And the President of the United States family has been involved in money laundering in exchange for influence at the highest level of our government with his son at the head of the criminal enterprise running the show while also involved in human sex trafficking, and literally everyone in Washington has known for years, but now some of us hold the proof in our hands, but the power to prosecute lies with the complicit DOJ whose alliance lies with the same old politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now.
I won’t participate or go along to get along. Washington has nothing to offer me, and clearly Washington has nothing to offer the American people either.