When I was but a young stud, I remember nearly all the adult men I knew complaining of lower-back pain.
It was everywhere in my family and extended social circle. I took it for granted that once you hit 30 or so, you were condemned to ache.
Low-back aches are one alleged curse of aging that I’ve avoided.
I credit that to a few things:
1) An unreasonable amount of deadlifts
2) Lots of direct work for the lower back
3) Lots of direct work for the abs or “core”
4) Lots of pulls and rows without support, ranging from dumbbell rows to stone lifts
5) Careful attention to mobility in the hips, including down-the-chain causes of stiffness and tightness
My lower back is perhaps the one major region of my body that I did not injure during my decades of doing everything wrong according to the Experts.
It turns out that if you 1) strengthen the muscles around a joint and 2) limber up the sources of dysfunction causing pain, it won’t chronically ache. Thanks to aggressively doing all the exercises that are “supposed to” blow your back out, mine’s damn near bullet-proof.
Miraculous.
Let me turn it over to you.
Do you suffer from low back pain?
If that’s a problem for you, you might be interested in my gentle guidance. You’ll need to be on my email list for that opportunity. Use this link:
Matt Perryman