Should I Exercise With Low Back Pain? Have you ever sat in your car in the parking lot of your gym debating whether you should go in and work out despite your consistent low back pain? Have your doctors been telling you more exercise will help with your pain yet exercise seems to be one […]
Some of the simplest exercises can trigger low back pain. Take bicep curls and shoulder presses for example. These are not necessarily considered “risky” exercises for someone who has a sensitive low back but depending on how they do them it could really mess them up. Today, I want to give you a quick fix […]
You can stop barbell squatting now. I know that sounds crazy but hear me out. Do barbell squats leave you feeling beat up? Do you constantly battle low back pain during or after doing barbell squats? The barbell squat is commonly known as the king of all lower body exercises. As great as it seems […]
Does perfect posture equal back pain relief? A common theme that has been thrown around is this idea of maintaining a perfect posture with every movement you do throughout the day. I’ll be honest with you. There was a time where I thought the more rigid and neutral my body was AT ALL TIMES, the […]
If you crack your own back and currently deal with chronic back pain you want to watch this. We all do it. You’re sitting at your desk and starting to feel stiff and achy so you reach around your chair and twist your trunk looking for that self-induced “pop” or “crack” that goes up your […]
The Cobra Pose is one of the most over-prescribed and improperly done strategies for a herniated disc. I get the idea but the problem is there are too many people landing on these stupid Yoga videos talking about back pain relief and stretches to heal a herniated disc and this overextended exercise seems to always […]
You know what’s super frustrating? Feeling like you’re doing all the things right but you wake up every day forcing yourself to do life and work through relentless lower back pain. There is a hard line in the sand when it comes to working with someone who is sick and tired of their back pain […]
Have you ever felt like your lower back is being crushed by the end of a long workday or you feel like being gently pulled end from end would feel pretty good? In this video, I give you some safe alternatives to using the Inversion Table to help decompress your spine that you can do […]
Welcome to another Friday of Coffee and Coaching 🙂 Super pumped for this week and honestly the weeks to come! Today I have two things to share. The first is this weeks video topic over on YouTube.com. We are talking about the worst training styles a lot of back pain suffers start with to “get […]
When it comes to lower back pain and core training it’s important that we do it right. Unfortunately, a lot of “back pain” peeps are told to go strengthen their cores without any real direction. They walk into the gym and see home-boy doing hanging leg raises or bragging about his 100 sit-up challenge he […]
