Back Pain Exercises – When Your Back Goes Out, Where Does It Go?

One of the keys to staying fit and lean for life, is staying healthy and injury free.  Because once you are bed ridden and receiving gifts of chocolate by the basket load, it is a slippery slope to an extra 25 pounds.

If you are anything like the rest of my readers, your back is the first thing to “POP”, without warning, just when you were about to go on vacation.

[Many people WISH they owned a time machine to warn themselves about the importance of back exercises]

We’ve all thrown our backs out doing something as simple as bending over to tie your shoes, or as challenging as the kama sutra you may have wondered to yourself, “What happened to my back and why does it hurt so much?

It was a few years ago that I think I uncovered the answer?

A good buddy of mine, Eric Wong, who has a background in Kinesiology (exercise science) and is usually in the octagon training big time MMA fighters gave me some advice that has turned my back into the best support team I could ask for.

Curious?

Here it is…

The first thing to understand is that it wasn’t that simply one act of bending over that resulted in your back going out…

It was the result of numerous acts where you put your back into a position that brought on a certain type of stress over and over, until the one time you did it pushed your back over the edge and some tissues got damaged and pain was the result.

It’s like carpal tunnel…

You’ve heard of carpal tunnel right?

It’s that syndrome that occurs in people who type a lot for their jobs…

From typing so much, tissues in their wrist get damaged and it hurts a lot for a long time…

Well that’s what happens to your back.

You perform a movement, likely bending over and flexing (rounding) your lumbar spine (low back).

Repeating this movement over and over stresses the intervertebral discs until they get ruptured and the disc basically explodes and mayor may not irritate the nerve.

This is called either a disc bulge or disc herniation and is the most common cause of back pain to people between the ages of 18 and 50. And the reason that people get spasms after their back goes in this manner is that their brain is trying to protect the spine from further damage.

I know, it’s a little tricky but stick with me.

WHY DOES MY BACK LOCK UP?!?!

By causing muscle spasms and basically hyper activating all of the muscles around the low back, your brain is basically putting your
spine on lock down and it’s almost impossible to create movement in the low back since the muscles are so tight.

This is a protective mechanism because any further movement may causenfurther injury to the disc(s).

You see, your brain is a lot smarter than you may think!

[Eric Wong- My Back Pain Guru]

So the spasms are actually a good thing because you won’t be able to move your back and cause further damage.

That means that the absolute WORST thing you can do is stretch the low back.

If anyone’s told you to stretch your back muscles if you have back pain, never take their advice about physical well-being again, because they clearly have no clue what they’re talking about.

If you want to learn more about back pain and what really happens when you throw your back and what to do about it to minimize pain and damage, you’ve got to check out this free report from my buddy Eric…

=> FREE BACK PAIN REPORT

Eric is giving away this report for FREE in hopes that you like it so much you willconsider buying his Bulletproof Back program when he is done putting the finishing touches on it.

I hope this helps you get “back” into shape(sorry, I couldn’t resist), and feel free to comment below if you have any questions for myself or Eric.