The REAL Reason You Have Back Pain (we were lied to)
Summary
TLDRThe video explores the underlying causes of low back pain, emphasizing that it is often misunderstood and mismanaged. The speaker shares personal experiences with back injuries and highlights the importance of addressing core stability, muscle strength, and proper rehabilitation techniques. Key points include the need for gradual exposure to stress on the spine, the significance of building evidence of strength, and the importance of correcting imbalances. The video encourages viewers to focus on long-term solutions rather than quick fixes, advocating for a comprehensive approach to strengthening the low back and reducing sensitivity through targeted exercises.
Takeaways
- 🩺 Low back pain is often misunderstood.
- 💪 Strengthening the low back is crucial.
- 🔄 Gradual exposure to movement helps reduce sensitivity.
- 🧘♂️ Stretching alone may not solve tightness issues.
- 📅 Rehabilitation can take months to years.
- ⚖️ Core stability supports the spine.
- 🚫 Avoidance can lead to more problems.
- 📈 Build evidence of strength over time.
- 🧩 Address imbalances to prevent further issues.
- 🛠️ Focus on long-term solutions, not quick fixes.
Timeline
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
The speaker introduces the topic of low back pain, using an acronym to describe its characteristics: sensitive, hidden, imbalanced, weak, and tight. They emphasize that many people have been misled about the nature of low back pain and share their personal experience with a herniated disc, highlighting the importance of understanding the underlying issues rather than just treating symptoms.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The speaker discusses their journey through physical therapy and rehabilitation, explaining that traditional methods helped initially but ultimately led to reinjury. They emphasize the need for a deeper understanding of the low back and its vulnerabilities, as well as the importance of sharing their story to help others avoid similar pitfalls.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
The speaker critiques the traditional physical therapy methods, acknowledging their value but pointing out that they often fail to address the real issues when returning to normal activities. They highlight the need for a more comprehensive approach to low back rehabilitation that goes beyond initial recovery.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
The speaker explains the anatomy of the core and its role in stabilizing the low back. They emphasize that traditional core training often neglects the muscles directly attached to the spine, which are crucial for preventing injuries and maintaining a healthy back.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
The speaker introduces the concept of graded exposure to desensitize the low back and build strength. They provide specific exercises, such as back extensions and trap three raises, to help strengthen the low back and improve its resilience against injury.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:00
The speaker discusses the hidden imbalances that can arise from low back injuries, sharing their personal experience with hip imbalances and how they contributed to further injuries. They emphasize the importance of addressing these imbalances to prevent future issues.
- 00:30:00 - 00:35:00
The speaker provides practical mobility exercises, such as split squat holds and squat holds, to improve hip mobility and address imbalances. They stress the importance of consistency and gradual progression in these exercises to achieve lasting results.
- 00:35:00 - 00:40:00
The speaker highlights the weakness of the low back, noting that many people do not have a clear understanding of their low back strength. They encourage viewers to measure their strength through specific exercises and set goals for improvement.
- 00:40:00 - 00:45:00
The speaker discusses the tightness often experienced in the low back, explaining that it is a symptom of underlying issues rather than the root cause. They emphasize the importance of building strength and trust in the low back rather than relying solely on stretching or temporary relief methods.
- 00:45:00 - 00:50:00
The speaker concludes by reiterating the importance of understanding the reasons behind low back pain and the need for a long-term, evidence-based approach to rehabilitation. They encourage viewers to avoid quick fixes and focus on building a strong, resilient low back over time.
- 00:50:00 - 00:58:14
The speaker invites viewers to explore their website for additional resources and support, emphasizing the value of community and shared experiences in overcoming low back pain. They encourage a mindset of patience and commitment to long-term improvement.
Mind Map
Video Q&A
What are the main reasons for low back pain?
Low back pain can be due to sensitivity, hidden imbalances, weakness, and tightness in the muscles.
How can I strengthen my low back?
Incorporate exercises like back extensions, split squat holds, and controlled movements to build strength gradually.
What should I do if my low back is sensitive?
Focus on graded exposure to movement and build evidence of strength without causing pain.
Is stretching enough for tightness in the low back?
Stretching alone may not be effective; it's important to strengthen the muscles and address the underlying issues.
How long does it take to rehabilitate a low back injury?
Rehabilitation can take several months to years, depending on the severity of the injury and the consistency of the exercises.
What is the importance of core stability for back health?
Core stability helps support the spine and prevent injuries by ensuring proper movement patterns.
Can I prevent low back pain?
Yes, by maintaining strength, flexibility, and proper movement mechanics, you can reduce the risk of low back pain.
What role does muscle strength play in back pain?
Weak muscles can lead to instability and increased risk of injury, making it crucial to strengthen the low back.
Should I avoid bending my back to prevent pain?
Avoidance can lead to more problems; instead, focus on building strength and confidence in your movements.
What is the 'squeeze then stretch' approach?
This approach involves strengthening the muscles before stretching to ensure they are prepared and less prone to injury.
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- 00:00:00the real reason you have low back
- 00:00:03pain your low
- 00:00:06back is
- 00:00:09[ __ ] but that's more than an insult and
- 00:00:11I want to tell you a little bit of what
- 00:00:13I mean by that so one this is an acronym
- 00:00:15because I'm cute uh s stands for
- 00:00:18sensitive H stands for hidden and
- 00:00:21imbalance I your low back is incredibly
- 00:00:24weak T your low back is tight your low
- 00:00:29back is [ __ ] and that is okay because
- 00:00:31mine was [ __ ] too and I'm going to help
- 00:00:34you understand why so first I do want to
- 00:00:39explain why I think we've been lied to
- 00:00:41about the lowb
- 00:00:43back it may not have been malicious or
- 00:00:46of bad intent but whether on purpose or
- 00:00:50not we were all misled about the lowb
- 00:00:52back in general so second I'm going to
- 00:00:55talk about what you can do for your [ __ ]
- 00:00:57back and what I did for mine
- 00:01:00to be able to go from reinjuring myself
- 00:01:03just tying my shoe to basically being
- 00:01:06able to put my back in Reckless
- 00:01:08situations and lift directly with my
- 00:01:11spine and I cannot injure myself so bold
- 00:01:15claims this may irritate you off the rip
- 00:01:19I think if you give me at least 10
- 00:01:20minutes you're going to realize why this
- 00:01:22video is unlike any other back video
- 00:01:23you've watched and so yeah let's get
- 00:01:26into it
- 00:01:27first why have we been lied to
- 00:01:32I'll just start with my experience
- 00:01:34because I think this is one that you're
- 00:01:35going to be able to relate to uh I
- 00:01:37herniated my disc in 2019 I was 21 years
- 00:01:41old too young to have back pain and I
- 00:01:43was already in school for exercise
- 00:01:45science studying how to treat these
- 00:01:48injuries on my way to become a physical
- 00:01:49therapist I worked at a physical therapy
- 00:01:51clinic as a tech I would take people
- 00:01:53through the exact protocols that you're
- 00:01:55supposed to go through when you get hurt
- 00:01:57I learned all of this stuff
- 00:02:01also just so you know we're in the
- 00:02:03kitchen of my home because I don't want
- 00:02:05it to seem like you have to be in a big
- 00:02:07crazy gym with a bunch of equipment to
- 00:02:08fix your back so we're going to keep it
- 00:02:12authentic probably some dirty spots on
- 00:02:14the wall on the counters just don't look
- 00:02:15at that so if you hurt your back you
- 00:02:18gave it two three weeks of initial
- 00:02:20injury rehab then you already are going
- 00:02:22to be familiar with the stuff I'm doing
- 00:02:23right here a bird
- 00:02:25dog opposite arm opposite leg extending
- 00:02:30learning to use your breath in
- 00:02:32brace in the attempts of creating core
- 00:02:35stability go to the side a sideline
- 00:02:38clamshell you could have a band around
- 00:02:40the knees again starting to use lateral
- 00:02:43forces on the spine with a little bit of
- 00:02:45your glutes and building lumbo pelvic
- 00:02:49stabilization could flip to the opposite
- 00:02:52side bird dogs opposite arm opposite leg
- 00:02:57great stuff none of it is necessarily
- 00:02:59bad B
- 00:03:01so when we start trying to fix the back
- 00:03:06in this way that makes sense for the
- 00:03:08first six weeks and it did for me I felt
- 00:03:10great my disc injury had healed a lot I
- 00:03:13wasn't as sensitive as I was I could
- 00:03:15actually stand up and walk go back to
- 00:03:17work and I have to crawl on the ground
- 00:03:19but what happened when I went back to
- 00:03:21lifting and activities that actually
- 00:03:23really use the spine I just got
- 00:03:25reinjured so at first it was reinjuring
- 00:03:27off of a back squat then a box jump then
- 00:03:31I would reinjure getting out of a car
- 00:03:33then I'd reinjure tying my shoe then if
- 00:03:35I sneeze too hard I could get to
- 00:03:37reinjure it so basically this Loop
- 00:03:40formed showing my low back
- 00:03:42vulnerabilities because I had actually
- 00:03:44never taken the back Beyond a level
- 00:03:47three out of 10 of intensity so this was
- 00:03:51something I went through when I was 21
- 00:03:53to 24 reinjuring my back every two three
- 00:03:55months thinking it was just me now
- 00:03:58here's where it really got interesting
- 00:03:59was I just started sharing these stories
- 00:04:01online on
- 00:04:02YouTube and really with the intent
- 00:04:04hopefully some young kid like me that
- 00:04:07might be stuck will find out there's
- 00:04:09there's something missing so after
- 00:04:12posting for a year becoming low back
- 00:04:14ability and trying to educate on this
- 00:04:17just massive misunderstanding of the
- 00:04:19back people started reaching out and it
- 00:04:21turned out my rare story of this
- 00:04:24reinjury loop with the mill big three
- 00:04:27and all the other stabilization Based
- 00:04:30training was just not enough and now
- 00:04:33don't get me wrong there's value in it I
- 00:04:37just want to make it clear so we don't
- 00:04:38get false statements on me I'm not
- 00:04:41saying there's no value that it's
- 00:04:42useless I'm saying this is great from
- 00:04:44month 1 to two one to three after which
- 00:04:47you want to make the jump to sports to
- 00:04:50Normal Life fullon Lifting you're just
- 00:04:53guessing that you're not going to get
- 00:04:54hurt and it turns out thousands of other
- 00:04:57people have been left off in this sort
- 00:04:59of mystery so I was posting on YouTube
- 00:05:04and uh just being direct because I'm not
- 00:05:07going to tiptoe around it name drop the
- 00:05:10migil big three that protocol by these
- 00:05:12Experts of these back sophisticated
- 00:05:15physical therapists there's value in it
- 00:05:18and it works but I think there's a big
- 00:05:20gap so people of High affluence really
- 00:05:23wealthy people who could even afford to
- 00:05:26directly reach out to people like Stu
- 00:05:28Mill and train directly with them would
- 00:05:32then reach out to me after finding my
- 00:05:33video and tell me hey after working with
- 00:05:38directly under the guy to perfectly
- 00:05:40learn how to brace how to stabilize how
- 00:05:43to use my hips and core properly how to
- 00:05:45move and sit and stand and load the
- 00:05:47hinge so that way I never round my back
- 00:05:50they got the expert advice and coaching
- 00:05:53handson Direct by the guy himself and
- 00:05:56then they come to me in a College
- 00:05:58Dropout who who was just a 26-year-old
- 00:06:00kid who was also injured they're like
- 00:06:03I'm going to completely follow what
- 00:06:04you're saying because I know there's
- 00:06:05something missing I keep getting hurt
- 00:06:07too so I say all that not as a bragging
- 00:06:10thing I say all that not to just call
- 00:06:11shots and attack because that's not what
- 00:06:13it's about there is something missing
- 00:06:15and it's not just me you could have the
- 00:06:17most money get the best sophisticated
- 00:06:20treatment in this industry where
- 00:06:22something's blatantly missing and you're
- 00:06:24going to be left in the same spot so
- 00:06:27that's my backstory and preface and why
- 00:06:29decided to make this video of why your
- 00:06:31low back is [ __ ] and what I think the
- 00:06:33real problem is so I'm flipping through
- 00:06:35my notes so that way I stay on track
- 00:06:38because I have a thousand tangents I
- 00:06:39could go on just from Passion so we
- 00:06:42already talked about something is
- 00:06:43missing the traditional PT method is
- 00:06:46great for the initial rehab of an injury
- 00:06:49but what about the return to actual life
- 00:06:52that's where we got to look at this
- 00:06:54Jordan can you put 3 minutes on your
- 00:06:56phone I have a timer Jordan's here
- 00:06:58backstage you him I have 3 minutes to
- 00:07:01break down what the core is and not draw
- 00:07:03this out too long so if we're trying to
- 00:07:05fix the low back and we
- 00:07:09show
- 00:07:12first the misunderstandings to fix the
- 00:07:15low
- 00:07:16back we have to look at what core
- 00:07:18training is currently described
- 00:07:21as so you remembered all the stuff I
- 00:07:24showed the bird dog sideline
- 00:07:27clamshells dead bugs ET
- 00:07:30ET let's look at what the core is so I'm
- 00:07:33going to draw a top down
- 00:07:35view this is you cut in half like a
- 00:07:38cucumber from the top here's the front
- 00:07:42of your
- 00:07:45core six-pack abs right here's the
- 00:07:51obliques there's two and then here's the
- 00:07:53transverse abdominis two layers so we're
- 00:07:56going to draw that too
- 00:08:00and then here's the special stuff that I
- 00:08:02focus on the low back
- 00:08:05directly so here's the spine column
- 00:08:09right
- 00:08:10here here's the spinal
- 00:08:14Erectors not to mention all the little
- 00:08:16muscles then you have the
- 00:08:20soaz this is a crazy crazy visual then
- 00:08:24you have the
- 00:08:27qls looks like a weird flower
- 00:08:31it's terrible there we
- 00:08:35go
- 00:08:38okay Jesus this
- 00:08:41is this is rough spinal Erectors and I'm
- 00:08:44going to remind us and go over it it's
- 00:08:47okay if just looks like a first grader
- 00:08:50is drawing right
- 00:08:52now okay so let's go over
- 00:08:57this oblique
- 00:09:01transverse abdominis you can pause it
- 00:09:04and look at
- 00:09:05this the
- 00:09:08ABS so here's what's
- 00:09:12missing when you go through
- 00:09:14stabilization training maybe you have to
- 00:09:17zoom in on it when you do something like
- 00:09:20a dead bug and you're lying on the back
- 00:09:22and using opposite limbs to try to
- 00:09:24create stability we are trying to
- 00:09:26stabilize using the front
- 00:09:29these six-pack abs right in the front a
- 00:09:32lot of us have done thousands of
- 00:09:34crunches in our lives thousands of
- 00:09:35sit-ups we've trained the ABS then let's
- 00:09:38go to sideline clamshell here and we're
- 00:09:41lifting through the side and trying to
- 00:09:44brace same with bird dog we have this
- 00:09:47tipping rotating aspect we're
- 00:09:50preventing these are now starting to
- 00:09:54train this the transverse abdominis
- 00:10:00deep core
- 00:10:01stabilization when you take a deep
- 00:10:03breath in a squat and you're trying to
- 00:10:05brace your body stiff you're using this
- 00:10:08whole chamber this whole Barrel so we
- 00:10:12train the ABS we train the transverse
- 00:10:16abdominal we train the obliques and you
- 00:10:18could even view the the core a little
- 00:10:19bit more
- 00:10:20thoroughly that's my 3 minutes we're
- 00:10:22going to
- 00:10:24five the core is a barrel
- 00:10:30so you could view it as having
- 00:10:32everything I just
- 00:10:34drew but then also having a floor and a
- 00:10:37ceiling no way this marker is giving up
- 00:10:39on
- 00:10:40me so what is the
- 00:10:42ceiling the
- 00:10:50diaphragm
- 00:10:52diaphragm then the ground here pelvic
- 00:10:56floor
- 00:11:01right so your core
- 00:11:05overall is this fixed chamber with a set
- 00:11:08amount of pressure so when you do deep
- 00:11:11breathing and start to work on
- 00:11:12diaphragmatic pressure building a brace
- 00:11:15around your body when you Squat and go
- 00:11:18and squeeze tight or you actually use a
- 00:11:19belt you are working to stabilize
- 00:11:22everything tight through air through the
- 00:11:24ceiling of the diaphragm the ground of
- 00:11:27the pelvic floor air is what's
- 00:11:29stiffening this then when we do bird dog
- 00:11:32sideline clamshells Etc we're training
- 00:11:34the front of the ABS we train the
- 00:11:36obliques and transverse
- 00:11:39abdominis so we hit everything we could
- 00:11:42except probably the most important
- 00:11:45part which is the spinal muscles the
- 00:11:50muscles that attach to the spine so what
- 00:11:52are they this flower that I drew all
- 00:11:55weird
- 00:11:57here the so
- 00:12:00has here the ql that attaches to the
- 00:12:05side and then the biggest ones that have
- 00:12:07the most healing potential to the spine
- 00:12:09itself the spinal
- 00:12:13Erectors okay not an artist bear with me
- 00:12:17the point is to have you understand when
- 00:12:19you go through traditional PT training
- 00:12:22we train
- 00:12:26everything except the actual low back
- 00:12:30itself any of the muscles that attach to
- 00:12:32the spine we do not take the progressive
- 00:12:34further and further levels so what does
- 00:12:36that mean is you get really good I'm
- 00:12:39done with the breakdown you get really
- 00:12:41good at bracing tight picking up
- 00:12:44something like
- 00:12:47this with zero spinal flexion moving
- 00:12:49like a robot and what happens to the
- 00:12:52spine itself it breaks down further in
- 00:12:55diagnosis like DDD spond alosis retro
- 00:13:00modic changes pars defect everything in
- 00:13:03the bone may go through more and more
- 00:13:04stress because you never directly built
- 00:13:07these muscles so let's go through now
- 00:13:09what can we do about it for your [ __ ]
- 00:13:11back so that is the
- 00:13:14core it is a 360 barrel with a ceiling
- 00:13:18and a
- 00:13:19floor we already covered in traditional
- 00:13:22PT training which has value everything
- 00:13:25else but the low back spinal tissue so
- 00:13:28that's all I'm going to focus on I'm
- 00:13:30assuming you're already doing those and
- 00:13:31you've gone through it before okay so
- 00:13:33let's go back to your [ __ ] back one it
- 00:13:37is
- 00:13:46sensitive one thing I would lead you to
- 00:13:48do when you're dealing with symptoms is
- 00:13:50to ask why not just buffer or maset but
- 00:13:53ask why is the low back sensitive I'm
- 00:13:56going to give you two things you do to
- 00:13:57work on it sens sensitivity is basically
- 00:14:00a pattern of pain of breakdown avoidance
- 00:14:04your nervous system gets used to having
- 00:14:05to feel pain when you use your spinal
- 00:14:07muscles it might spasm it might feel
- 00:14:10sore but not in a good way not in the
- 00:14:12bad way it's in this gray feeling when
- 00:14:14you train your low back we need to work
- 00:14:16on the sensitivity so what do we do to
- 00:14:18try to decrease sensitivity we're going
- 00:14:20to gain evidence what that looks like in
- 00:14:25movement
- 00:14:27first this is going to be your bread and
- 00:14:30butter you need to buy one you need to
- 00:14:31find whichever one you want the biggest
- 00:14:34question we get on my page is how do I
- 00:14:36train the low back without a back
- 00:14:38extension there's just no shot you have
- 00:14:41to do three sets of 10 of Googling back
- 00:14:43extensions that's the solution honestly
- 00:14:45so the first step that we're going to go
- 00:14:47to in building evidence it's like graded
- 00:14:51exposure in physical therapy and
- 00:14:53Psychotherapy this term is used in both
- 00:14:56graded exposure take something that
- 00:14:59makes your vulnerability exposed but
- 00:15:01find the level where it is impossible to
- 00:15:04lose that you can handle it come back
- 00:15:06next time less sensitive so we need to
- 00:15:08gain evidence in the back that your
- 00:15:11muscles can fire and not spasm fire and
- 00:15:15not feel pain so we do that with tension
- 00:15:18without any motion putting a timer down
- 00:15:21you could start a clock and just start
- 00:15:24with 30 seconds holding this
- 00:15:27position simply holding it reverse
- 00:15:30plank so this is building off of all the
- 00:15:32traditional PT you started with but now
- 00:15:35we're mainly focusing on spinal tissue
- 00:15:39muscles that connect directly to the
- 00:15:41spine the spinal erector muscle groups
- 00:15:43are working here as well as some of the
- 00:15:45smaller ones so starting at 30 seconds
- 00:15:48is fine you may have the muscular
- 00:15:50strength to do 2 minutes but if you
- 00:15:53start with that you might be in a flare
- 00:15:54up for a month so work to your tissue
- 00:15:57tolerance level your sensitivity we are
- 00:15:59desensitizing through exposure now how
- 00:16:02do you make this easier if even this is
- 00:16:03incredibly hard you can move the pad
- 00:16:06high you can move it up and down or
- 00:16:09actually you could even just let me show
- 00:16:11it this way you could sit at any
- 00:16:14position on this machine you could have
- 00:16:16it up to your chest and you are using
- 00:16:18the muscles to lesser degree you could
- 00:16:21start a super high pad for a minute then
- 00:16:25slowly over time move the pad lower to
- 00:16:28where it's at your your hips until you
- 00:16:30can tolerate more and more Force without
- 00:16:32any
- 00:16:33spasm the eventual goal is to reach the
- 00:16:35standard we set for 2 minutes holding
- 00:16:38here and not just can you do it can you
- 00:16:40do it today feel good tomorrow with a
- 00:16:43good soreness then can you repeat it two
- 00:16:45times a week over time just through that
- 00:16:50contraction without pain your body's
- 00:16:52going to rewire the neurology the nerves
- 00:16:55that are running through your spine as
- 00:16:57well as the muscles everything is going
- 00:16:59to develop the tissue the trust it's
- 00:17:02going to become less sensitive over time
- 00:17:04the second side of it is the Trap three
- 00:17:06Rays we can show a video of me doing it
- 00:17:08traditionally on a bench I don't have a
- 00:17:10bench with me today so I can do it on
- 00:17:11this machine it's the same
- 00:17:15exact idea getting tension through the
- 00:17:18spine we're using our arms to help but
- 00:17:21now this is the focus of the mid to
- 00:17:23upper back we're going for spinal
- 00:17:26extension without Motion in the spine my
- 00:17:29back isn't
- 00:17:30rounding my back isn't overly
- 00:17:33extending I'm simply holding this
- 00:17:35position but increase Force here it's
- 00:17:37squeezing like it's going to cramp and I
- 00:17:40lower this probably not the first time
- 00:17:42you've seen it but where it goes wrong
- 00:17:44for people is they think they have to
- 00:17:48start holding some crazy ass
- 00:17:51weight 10 15
- 00:17:55pounds and start to lift as if they've
- 00:17:59done it before your arms are not zero
- 00:18:02PBS body weight is not zero lb me
- 00:18:04lifting here is 10 lb each side what you
- 00:18:07really probably
- 00:18:08need is to go on Amazon and get cute and
- 00:18:11get these little half pound plates or
- 00:18:14one PB dumbbells and start incrementally
- 00:18:17increasing what you can do for 15 reps
- 00:18:21this alone could flare you up if you're
- 00:18:23overly sensitive in the spine so take it
- 00:18:25super
- 00:18:26slow so twice a week back extension hold
- 00:18:30simply start with one set of 30 seconds
- 00:18:33if you survive that the next time you go
- 00:18:35through and do two sets of 30 seconds
- 00:18:37after a couple weeks go for a minute
- 00:18:39this is just the direction I have an
- 00:18:42exact protocol on the lowback
- 00:18:44ability.com website but truly you could
- 00:18:46figure it out yourself if you want to go
- 00:18:47slow enough and play the long game for
- 00:18:50trap three Rays this focus on the mid to
- 00:18:52upper back start as light as you
- 00:18:55need don't worry about the weight work
- 00:18:58through two sets of 15 see how do you
- 00:19:01feel tomorrow are you sore is it a good
- 00:19:05soreness is it
- 00:19:07ambiguous listen to the feedback your
- 00:19:09body's giving you and act appropriately
- 00:19:11this is a 3 to 6 month plan minimum
- 00:19:14ideally you don't have to go through
- 00:19:16flareups along the way
- 00:19:19realistically you might but that's okay
- 00:19:21you're learning your body is going to
- 00:19:23work with you and give you feedback
- 00:19:25don't mask it don't blame it so that's
- 00:19:28sensitivity
- 00:19:31two your low
- 00:19:34back is
- 00:19:37hidden in
- 00:19:43imbalance so what do I mean by that
- 00:19:45we're going to look how does a low back
- 00:19:48injury become a full body
- 00:19:54problem my experience which apparently
- 00:19:58is not too either so I had a disc
- 00:20:00herniation on my L4 L5 L5 S1 then over
- 00:20:04time I had a hip hike because of the
- 00:20:06pain that was on one side of my spine
- 00:20:08most herniations go to one side or the
- 00:20:10other I had an aversion to flexing on
- 00:20:14the opposite side I had a herniation
- 00:20:16here I did not want to stretch it out so
- 00:20:18the way I would sit in a
- 00:20:20chair would be lopsided all the time I
- 00:20:24would not sit normal straight I would
- 00:20:26try to avoid and protect that the way I
- 00:20:28would stand would be a little bit
- 00:20:30leaning on one side all the time on one
- 00:20:33leg and over the span of two years my
- 00:20:36hips became one to two inches higher
- 00:20:39like this now everything else I did
- 00:20:42imagine I'm still lifting I would go to
- 00:20:45try to squat what would happen to my
- 00:20:47hips some weird ass dance to the left
- 00:20:51and now over time that just led to more
- 00:20:52and more force in my hip which led to an
- 00:20:55hip impingement every time I'll go down
- 00:20:57to squat sharp stab every time I would
- 00:21:00get deep It's Like a Knife going in my
- 00:21:02joint three months later during lockdown
- 00:21:05of covid I got a sports hny on the same
- 00:21:07side I've looked this up so many people
- 00:21:11in Threads in my telegram chat that we
- 00:21:14had thousands of people so many people
- 00:21:16have gone down this lineage of
- 00:21:18discarnation hip imbalance direct hip
- 00:21:21joint issues sport Heria someone's going
- 00:21:24to comment and so that's exactly my
- 00:21:26story on this video it's not that rare
- 00:21:29so the imbalance that happens from your
- 00:21:31spine can go everywhere up to the upper
- 00:21:34back down to the hips so that's how you
- 00:21:37can have it hidden over years you can do
- 00:21:40the back extension that's going to help
- 00:21:41you a ton but imagine I only worked on
- 00:21:43the strength of my muscles in the spine
- 00:21:46and I didn't fix the effects of the
- 00:21:48injury every time I squat some weird
- 00:21:51force my back is going to feel different
- 00:21:53left to right so let's look at what can
- 00:21:56we do for the imbalance on my
- 00:22:00hip first I'm going to give you the Bare
- 00:22:04Basics on Mobility stupid easy cannot
- 00:22:07fail if you want a more thorough video
- 00:22:10on Mobility I've already done
- 00:22:12one hit Mobility for low back pan I'll
- 00:22:14put it on the screen but this is uh
- 00:22:18going to be a flow that you cannot fail
- 00:22:20at and we're going to talk more about
- 00:22:22hip stuff later on but we're going to do
- 00:22:25first a split squat hold
- 00:22:29you're going to pick a height below the
- 00:22:31knee somewhere about mid Shin put one
- 00:22:34foot forward stretch the back leg out as
- 00:22:36much as you can and just sit at the
- 00:22:38bottom and hold right
- 00:22:40here and for people that are trainers I
- 00:22:43already know what you're going to say I
- 00:22:44know what you're thinking I am stealing
- 00:22:47from these over TOA I am copying joined
- 00:22:49our staff as a coach and now works with
- 00:22:51me running the atg equipment but you may
- 00:22:55not know that we know each
- 00:22:57other and welcome to the kot podcast
- 00:22:59Brendon how's it going it's good in true
- 00:23:02atg fashion we just got done with and we
- 00:23:05have a long history I wrote the back
- 00:23:07ability program for the atg app but
- 00:23:10Brendan runs our low back ability
- 00:23:12protocol on the app so that's now like
- 00:23:14how do you start getting into the lower
- 00:23:16back the first version of it this is a
- 00:23:19communitive Community effort to work at
- 00:23:22the imbalance of our field so it's all
- 00:23:26good if you're like wait no I know that
- 00:23:27one you're stealing yes absolutely I'm
- 00:23:29stealing it it's fine so look holding a
- 00:23:31split
- 00:23:32squat for 1 minute at the bottom leg is
- 00:23:36as straight as I can keep it I'm
- 00:23:38squeezing the back glute squeezing the
- 00:23:40back quad my front heel is staying on
- 00:23:43the ground I'm not trying to worry about
- 00:23:45bending my knee to the max letting the
- 00:23:46heel come up I'm focused on the hip
- 00:23:50mobility so we're going to do one minute
- 00:23:52on each
- 00:23:53side this low back problem hidden an
- 00:23:57imbalance can sit in the hips so the
- 00:24:00first one if you have anterior pelvic
- 00:24:03tilt this is a whole controversial video
- 00:24:06the entire thing is going to be debated
- 00:24:09people say that pelvic tilt which is the
- 00:24:11direction of the top of your pelvis
- 00:24:13where does it point if that's a relevant
- 00:24:16factor for back pain when I had serious
- 00:24:18back Loop issues my back was [ __ ] my
- 00:24:21hips were stuck interiorly I felt
- 00:24:23pulling standing and walking all the
- 00:24:26time the tighter my hips SC in the front
- 00:24:29the more would tip and pull my pelvis
- 00:24:32forward and then my low back would take
- 00:24:33strain this is argued that it doesn't
- 00:24:36matter it's not causitive it doesn't
- 00:24:38cause back pain I don't see a benefit of
- 00:24:41being so tight in muscles that it warps
- 00:24:43your skeleton and pulse so this is our
- 00:24:45first approach is a split squat hold one
- 00:24:49minute on each side this can progress to
- 00:24:52doing reps I'm trying to give you the
- 00:24:55Bare Basics easy safe place to start if
- 00:24:58you're very nervous just hold actively
- 00:25:01one minute switch 1
- 00:25:04minute now the second one I'm going to
- 00:25:07give
- 00:25:07you for Mobility relevant to the
- 00:25:14back if you've heard of SI joint pain
- 00:25:16this is going to be very relevant for
- 00:25:18you when you're squatting a good test is
- 00:25:23how far down can you squat with your
- 00:25:26heels flat before you get get a Butt
- 00:25:29Wink which is the low back
- 00:25:31rounding so as you're going down at what
- 00:25:35point does your hips do your hips tip
- 00:25:37under you and around I'm not saying this
- 00:25:40is absolutely bad or good but being
- 00:25:42excessively tight on the inside of the
- 00:25:44thighs and the Deep groin to where you
- 00:25:46can't squat without rounding one squats
- 00:25:49are going to become painful the very low
- 00:25:52part of your spine into the hips this SI
- 00:25:54joint is going to take a beating two
- 00:25:57even when you're not squat
- 00:25:59the tightness on the front bottom of the
- 00:26:01pelvis here puts excess stress on the
- 00:26:04exact opposite the top back so every bit
- 00:26:07tighter you are on the inside it is
- 00:26:09literally a shared Force everything is
- 00:26:11connected to Fashion muscles it's going
- 00:26:15to be pulling on the exact opposite and
- 00:26:17that's where I was getting plagued with
- 00:26:19my spine herniations that healed up but
- 00:26:23then my hips and SI joints did not and
- 00:26:25it got worse and worse and worse so the
- 00:26:28stupid simple fail proof way we're going
- 00:26:30to start is
- 00:26:32with a squat
- 00:26:35hold so we just did the split squat for
- 00:26:38the hip flexors mainly now we're going
- 00:26:41to go use a slant of whatever height you
- 00:26:44want and sit at the bottom of a squat
- 00:26:48for a
- 00:26:49minute you could pick how much elevation
- 00:26:52based on how much you
- 00:26:54need the reason we're lifting the heels
- 00:26:56is just because if you can only go this
- 00:26:58this far it's not very productive to
- 00:27:00just do a a floating air squat we want
- 00:27:03to get deeper but you cannot round the
- 00:27:05spine if you're trying to work on the
- 00:27:07groin so we're going to elevate the
- 00:27:09heels make it
- 00:27:11easier you could even hold weight on
- 00:27:14both of these holds stay really tall
- 00:27:18active hold right here spine is vertical
- 00:27:21torso's taken out of the squat and it
- 00:27:24will add up over
- 00:27:25time so one minute here letting the
- 00:27:28inside of the thigh start to stretch out
- 00:27:30using your control of your pelvis that
- 00:27:32you started to work on with the big
- 00:27:33three and the traditional protocols you
- 00:27:35should have a better awareness of your
- 00:27:37hips and spine so here push into your
- 00:27:42hips let your pelvis
- 00:27:45posteriorly rotate I'm sorry anteriorly
- 00:27:48rotate and try to dig into the hips over
- 00:27:52time this should be able to turn into a
- 00:27:55flat heel in the same position without a
- 00:27:58Butt Wink being upright once you've
- 00:28:01restored this after back injury you have
- 00:28:04so much Safety and Security just through
- 00:28:08evidence that you could get back to
- 00:28:09something like
- 00:28:10squatting whether it's a goblet squat
- 00:28:13with weight a front squat a back squat
- 00:28:16it's all just different variations but
- 00:28:19hiding the imbalance of your back injury
- 00:28:23within the hips doesn't have to be
- 00:28:25complicated we don't have to do 30
- 00:28:26different drills let's start with the
- 00:28:27big biggest ones that show the most
- 00:28:29glaring issue so split squat hold do
- 00:28:32this twice a week one minute left one
- 00:28:35minute right squat hold two sets of one
- 00:28:38minute change the heel elevation as
- 00:28:40needed this is the biggest way we can
- 00:28:43start on the inside of the thigh the
- 00:28:44front of the thigh that's pulling on the
- 00:28:46spine
- 00:28:48so
- 00:28:54next of the [ __ ] back
- 00:28:58your low
- 00:29:00back is incredibly
- 00:29:18weak and it's not a mystery of
- 00:29:21why so first question I want to ask
- 00:29:28whether you're in Fitness or not how
- 00:29:30many push-ups can you
- 00:29:32do
- 00:29:33Jordan Jordan how many push-ups can you
- 00:29:36do 25 you can only do 25
- 00:29:40push-ups without tired no without
- 00:29:42getting tired it just meant Max wow I
- 00:29:44expected more okay so Jordan can do 25
- 00:29:47push-ups how many back extensions can
- 00:29:49you
- 00:29:52do he he's guessing he's guessing he
- 00:29:54doesn't know there's no firm answer he's
- 00:29:56going to say a number cuz he feels like
- 00:29:58he has to but the point is I could ask
- 00:29:59you how many push-ups can you do male or
- 00:30:02female doesn't matter who you are you
- 00:30:04know that you could do 20 or I could do
- 00:30:0530 I can't do a push-up you know how
- 00:30:08many push-ups you can do because we test
- 00:30:09it if I ask how many back extension reps
- 00:30:12can you do body weight you do not know
- 00:30:14CU we don't test it so when I say that
- 00:30:17your low back is incredibly weak it's
- 00:30:19because we've gone our whole life having
- 00:30:21no measurement of how strong is your low
- 00:30:24back directly so how are we going to be
- 00:30:26surprised that it's one of the first
- 00:30:28first places to break down in society
- 00:30:30and we all accept it as if it's normal
- 00:30:33that we have back pain but we've never
- 00:30:35gave it
- 00:30:39attention smells like [ __ ] in here
- 00:30:41to me and we just did a deep clean it's
- 00:30:45Monday morning so we do a deep clean of
- 00:30:47the LBA office it's not coming from the
- 00:30:48kitchen it's it's some [ __ ] here
- 00:30:51with the fact that we don't train the
- 00:30:52low back but then we just accept it as a
- 00:30:55societal problem so your incredibly weak
- 00:30:58low back is not a
- 00:31:01mystery the solution isn't
- 00:31:05complicated when you're painf free it
- 00:31:08comes very difficult once you're
- 00:31:10starting from an injured place but that
- 00:31:11doesn't mean the route changes so
- 00:31:13remember what we started with back
- 00:31:16extension ISO
- 00:31:18holds this was just for
- 00:31:20desensitization wake things up without
- 00:31:23the alarm going off of a flare up now
- 00:31:27when I want to ask how how strong is
- 00:31:28your low back we're not guessing I'm
- 00:31:30going to have you get on here and you
- 00:31:32should be able to go through reps till
- 00:31:34your low back fries so I'm going to
- 00:31:37go for as long as roughly I can body
- 00:31:41weight
- 00:31:42reps I'm at
- 00:31:45five and so now once we get to range of
- 00:31:47motion with the spine there's no hiding
- 00:31:50if you have an issue at your vertebrae
- 00:31:52and you are going through full reps
- 00:31:54where you let the spine decompress at
- 00:31:55the bottom and then you recompress with
- 00:31:58strength you're testing segment by
- 00:32:00segment I'm rounding my L1 L2 L2 L3 L3
- 00:32:05L4 all the way to the
- 00:32:07sacrum now you can do it like I used to
- 00:32:10do it the hip extension which means keep
- 00:32:12your back stacked and just Flex the hips
- 00:32:17keeping this back pretty much like in a
- 00:32:19deadlifter squat I'm not saying that's
- 00:32:21bad you may need to start there but the
- 00:32:23eventual goal is utilizing the spine and
- 00:32:28the low back muscles through
- 00:32:31range so I think this is
- 00:32:3318 I'm not
- 00:32:36sure oh you start to get a low back pump
- 00:32:41which if this is the first time you've
- 00:32:43ever had it it's a wakeup call that
- 00:32:47makes you completely hopeful about your
- 00:32:48low back you felt a bicep pump you felt
- 00:32:52a quad
- 00:32:53pump but you didn't even realize you
- 00:32:56could have a low back pump in it's good
- 00:32:59that's called flushing out the tissue
- 00:33:02and bringing a chance of circulation and
- 00:33:04micronutrients to the
- 00:33:06spine I can't stimulate my spinal bones
- 00:33:11directly not immediately but I can
- 00:33:15stimulate the muscles that attach to the
- 00:33:16bones I can get a crazy pump of blood
- 00:33:20flow on the muscles that sit on the
- 00:33:23bones which give it stability and
- 00:33:26support so I'm going say this is
- 00:33:28probably
- 00:33:2937 completely guessing could you put it
- 00:33:32on the screen good editor let's
- 00:33:35see I'm going stop here so I don't
- 00:33:38collapse
- 00:33:40but you should have a number that you
- 00:33:42know you're
- 00:33:43at and then you have a goal you can work
- 00:33:46from a starting point you can work from
- 00:33:48and a goal you can head towards I'm
- 00:33:50going go for 100
- 00:33:54[Music]
- 00:34:01okay at this point is not a
- 00:34:03mystery everything I just did there gave
- 00:34:06me 1 oun more confidence than when I
- 00:34:09would go to deadlift
- 00:34:10RDL that the chances of my low back
- 00:34:13buckling an inch inh herting something
- 00:34:15or reinjuring a tissue it's so much
- 00:34:17lower cuz I know literally at this point
- 00:34:20when I do rdl's the first thing to give
- 00:34:23up are my hamstrings not even my low
- 00:34:24back we could show videos of me taking
- 00:34:26it to failure my low back won't give out
- 00:34:29because I just made it a strength so the
- 00:34:32standard we set for people to work up to
- 00:34:34is 30 body weight reps slow smooth and
- 00:34:38controlled you can start like I said
- 00:34:41with half
- 00:34:42reps with assistance hold the handles go
- 00:34:46down just an
- 00:34:47inch and that's fine you could do hinge
- 00:34:50reps and not let the backgr that's
- 00:34:52totally okay eventually you need to
- 00:34:56embrace control
- 00:34:58deliberate spinal
- 00:35:00flexion and it would be good to try to
- 00:35:02do the opposite on the way up
- 00:35:04extend like a progression from cat Cow
- 00:35:07but now with
- 00:35:08weight not the starting point that's the
- 00:35:11end goal this is again a six-month
- 00:35:14Journey minimum half Reps for three
- 00:35:17months is fine you should ideally get
- 00:35:19the holds to 2 minutes before you even
- 00:35:21start this without any problem so know
- 00:35:24what your low back number is how many
- 00:35:27reps can you
- 00:35:29do then when you see stuff on my
- 00:35:33page of me doing something
- 00:35:36like a Jefferson
- 00:35:39curl where I'm purposely trying to only
- 00:35:42use my
- 00:35:45spine spine
- 00:35:48lifting this doesn't seem as
- 00:35:51crazy because you saw what I built 90%
- 00:35:54of my strength from was that controlled
- 00:35:56back extension
- 00:35:58so I've taken
- 00:36:00this to what I said in the beginning of
- 00:36:02the video to Reckless levels I've done
- 00:36:04my body weight 180 lbs purely on the
- 00:36:08small intraspinal muscles because what
- 00:36:10happens when you go deep your low back
- 00:36:13spinal Erectors the big ones you can see
- 00:36:15are working working working once you get
- 00:36:18to deep flexion they shut off they go
- 00:36:20into silence this is why physical
- 00:36:22therapist says Jefferson girl is
- 00:36:24dangerous I say it's protective because
- 00:36:27what happens
- 00:36:28once the big muscle shut off what lifts
- 00:36:30you back
- 00:36:32up God is it like is it the wind what
- 00:36:35happened if you're down here and the big
- 00:36:37muscle shut off but you obviously can
- 00:36:39get back up something has to be doing it
- 00:36:42it's the intraspinal muscles the multi
- 00:36:45fitus inter spinalis Rotator let's put
- 00:36:48them on screen these small muscles
- 00:36:50create vertebrae by vertebrae spinal
- 00:36:54stability what would prevent a disc from
- 00:36:56shooting out out trying to keep your
- 00:36:59back stiff as a board so there's no
- 00:37:01chance or should you be able to round
- 00:37:04being the wrong position but you have
- 00:37:07the micro security of every little
- 00:37:10muscle around the spine so that's where
- 00:37:13the shift came from trying to protect
- 00:37:16the back to build the back if you live
- 00:37:19in a life where the back is something to
- 00:37:21just be afraid of and preserve and you
- 00:37:24don't directly build it you're just one
- 00:37:27wrong step step away or you're one wrong
- 00:37:29sneeze away or one wrong twist you can't
- 00:37:32be careful enough to avoid a flare up in
- 00:37:34that life so we need to get to 30 reps
- 00:37:37work the big muscles and then eventually
- 00:37:40go to deeper ranges it's all a
- 00:37:42progression Jefferson curl might be two
- 00:37:44years away from now but after you get
- 00:37:46your 30 reps you should go to deeper
- 00:37:48ranges of back flexion to really
- 00:37:50continue to stress the small stuff at a
- 00:37:54progress manageable amount so
- 00:37:58your low back's incredibly
- 00:38:00weak but it won't be
- 00:38:02forever
- 00:38:05lastly your low back is
- 00:38:16tight that's
- 00:38:18[ __ ] that thing's about to snap every
- 00:38:21time you bend bend over a little bit
- 00:38:23twist move wrong your low back is tight
- 00:38:26as [ __ ]
- 00:38:30before I make this video two hours
- 00:38:32long I'm going to make sure this is
- 00:38:34pretty short on Point again one thing I
- 00:38:37want you to get from watching this
- 00:38:39content is the discernment to not blame
- 00:38:42the symptoms but to ask
- 00:38:46why
- 00:38:49so
- 00:38:50tightness is a symptom you can imagine
- 00:38:53this in a whole bunch of ways just in
- 00:38:55the body one natural mechanism that the
- 00:38:57the body does whenever it's stressed or
- 00:38:59feels unprotected it tightens if you get
- 00:39:02in a bad position with your back you
- 00:39:04reach for something you get a muscle
- 00:39:05spasm that is your muscles clenching on
- 00:39:08and squeezing super tight it you entered
- 00:39:11a bad position for your body doesn't
- 00:39:14have the evidence it's like an alarm
- 00:39:16system goes off it all clenches up and
- 00:39:17tight and then you seize up and fall
- 00:39:19like the videos I post about that's your
- 00:39:21body trying to protect you it doesn't
- 00:39:23have the trust that you've done enough
- 00:39:25in your spine that you could just like
- 00:39:27bounce weight and around and do stupid
- 00:39:29stuff twisting and it wouldn't hurt so
- 00:39:31the second you get in that area the
- 00:39:33muscles are going to squeeze and be like
- 00:39:35ah stop and that's a protective
- 00:39:38mechanism it's pretty available it's
- 00:39:40pretty present in a lot of different
- 00:39:42areas of the body tension is something
- 00:39:44we understand if you're chronically
- 00:39:46stressed you get tension here tense
- 00:39:49tight if you're in a position your body
- 00:39:52doesn't feel safe at spasm tense tight
- 00:39:55if I Splash cold water at you you're
- 00:39:57gonna go like this tense tight if you
- 00:39:59think I'm gonna hit you and come in and
- 00:40:01about to punch the camera you're gonna
- 00:40:04be tense tight like it's literally the
- 00:40:07intrinsic reflex of your body to try to
- 00:40:09stiffen and tighten so instead of
- 00:40:12spending every morning only working on
- 00:40:15the symptom of tightness this is the
- 00:40:17type of [ __ ] this is that stuff this is
- 00:40:21why I realize I can't retire yet as low
- 00:40:24back ability so people join the group
- 00:40:26chat genuinely asking this question
- 00:40:28meaning well hey Brandon I've had years
- 00:40:31of
- 00:40:32discnation had years of reinjuries
- 00:40:34actually had a surgery my back is always
- 00:40:37tight is it okay that I'm doing these
- 00:40:39drills every morning hugging my knees
- 00:40:42for the tightness doing this weird
- 00:40:44little airplane Twist of the spine
- 00:40:47because it pops really good and it gets
- 00:40:49the
- 00:40:50tightness maybe popping a leg up
- 00:40:53here and stretch stretch a stretch the
- 00:40:56tightness that just keeps happening
- 00:40:58and I hear them ask this and I'm
- 00:41:00like how many weeks in are you on the
- 00:41:03back extension they like the back
- 00:41:05extension what's that I'm like oh
- 00:41:07[ __ ] oh my God so there's such a
- 00:41:10misunderstanding about what tightness is
- 00:41:12it's not the enemy tightness is a
- 00:41:15byproduct of what your body does not
- 00:41:19have any trust in the neurology your
- 00:41:22nervous system and in the
- 00:41:24tissue because it doesn't trust you it
- 00:41:27is tense all the time so when you try to
- 00:41:30stretch something out your outer hip
- 00:41:33your Puri foris muscle is tight stretch
- 00:41:35stretch stretch what happens it might
- 00:41:37loosen up for an hour and then it just
- 00:41:40goes right back cuz there was nothing
- 00:41:42convincing about taking a sensitive
- 00:41:44tissue yanking on it and then seeing
- 00:41:48what happens tomorrow it's just going to
- 00:41:50go right back cuz it was tight for a
- 00:41:51reason so we need to disarm that
- 00:41:54mechanism and the way I would refer to
- 00:41:57it again drill this in your brain we are
- 00:41:59building evidence if you've had 5 years
- 00:42:03of pain in your low back you can't just
- 00:42:06stretch it out and think that's enough
- 00:42:08evidence you need months to years of
- 00:42:12building your low back teaching it yeah
- 00:42:14you got injured yeah you kept tweaking
- 00:42:16it flaring up I've learned the back is
- 00:42:19just scary and needed to avoid it new
- 00:42:22evidence equal but opposite direction we
- 00:42:24are strong in the low back we can get a
- 00:42:26pump and that's fine
- 00:42:27we can use the muscles and not spasm we
- 00:42:30can get sore and it's a good thing your
- 00:42:33body is listening it's not even mental
- 00:42:34it's your nervous system and the
- 00:42:36connection to the Mind muscle and
- 00:42:37everything in between so tightness you
- 00:42:41don't even have to stretch sometimes to
- 00:42:43get relief of tightness sometimes it's
- 00:42:46helpful but it can't just be something
- 00:42:50sensitive it's like a rubber
- 00:42:52band that has all these tears in it and
- 00:42:54frayed you ever seen a rubber band
- 00:42:56that's really old what happens when you
- 00:42:58stretch it you just see all the tears
- 00:43:00even more and you're stretching a
- 00:43:01sensitive torn out tissue that's what
- 00:43:04happens with muscles that have tears
- 00:43:06that have poor circulation the fatty
- 00:43:08infiltration and the muscles all weird
- 00:43:10like the tissue changes so let's get
- 00:43:13circulation and let's contract it are
- 00:43:16examples of this let's go to relevant
- 00:43:18ones for the back of
- 00:43:20tightness something that can really
- 00:43:22affect sciatica this is not a a new one
- 00:43:26is stretching the outer glute muscles
- 00:43:28and
- 00:43:29pureformance now a traditional approach
- 00:43:31you go to PT stuff I was doing is you'll
- 00:43:33stretch it and see if that releases it
- 00:43:36what else could you do you get a
- 00:43:37lacrosse ball or tennis ball put it
- 00:43:40there then you stretch it get it really
- 00:43:42stretched out the sensitive tissue that
- 00:43:45has no strength no trust never been
- 00:43:48pumped up it's just crying for help and
- 00:43:51it's tight while you stretch it Yank on
- 00:43:53it and put a ball and just dig into it
- 00:43:56and Bully it to like all right release
- 00:44:00and that's the problem with Active
- 00:44:03Release therapy when you still don't
- 00:44:05stimulate appropriately that tissue so I
- 00:44:08would have some sciatica that would lead
- 00:44:09to TV static and numbness down my
- 00:44:12hamstring I would do some of this feel
- 00:44:14like it helped for 20 minutes come back
- 00:44:17tomorrow it actually felt sore but in a
- 00:44:20bad way and even Tighter and then I
- 00:44:23would just go right back and be in this
- 00:44:24Loop so what's the evidence that's going
- 00:44:26to convince it otherwise let's train the
- 00:44:29area directly so outer hip
- 00:44:33example I coin something I'm not sure if
- 00:44:36I'm really the first Jordan let's make
- 00:44:38sure we get the trademark if I am for
- 00:44:40outer hip drop set let's go into the
- 00:44:43short range position of this the
- 00:44:45opposite of the stretch right if we're
- 00:44:48trying to stretch this we're going to
- 00:44:49put the foot inside the knee and yank
- 00:44:51let's do the opposite completely reverse
- 00:44:54it squeeze the muscle in the shortest
- 00:44:57range like a
- 00:44:58bicep lift up internal rotation just
- 00:45:02spend time at this toughest position for
- 00:45:0530
- 00:45:06seconds so you're going to hold it's
- 00:45:09going to start to burn it's going to
- 00:45:11feel like it's cramping you might even
- 00:45:13need to start easier which means lying
- 00:45:15down away from the knee your back may
- 00:45:18not feel comfortable being upright
- 00:45:20that's completely fine the better you
- 00:45:22get at it you're going to be able to
- 00:45:23turn towards the back knee and be more
- 00:45:26upright but my
- 00:45:28foot is off the ground just want you to
- 00:45:31be able to see that internal rotation 30
- 00:45:34seconds then immediately you're going to
- 00:45:36go into internal rotation with this
- 00:45:39abduction just just means you're
- 00:45:41rotating and you lift so now we're
- 00:45:43isolating slightly different muscles in
- 00:45:45the outer glute again 30 seconds easier
- 00:45:49is lying down and the away harder would
- 00:45:53be upright towards it eventually having
- 00:45:56no hands with the foot up would be a
- 00:45:58great standard for this step keeping 90°
- 00:46:01front knee 90° back knee burning like
- 00:46:04hell right now insane pump last step you
- 00:46:08go to the
- 00:46:10elbow and then hold that leg straight
- 00:46:12out so it's only abduction zero rotation
- 00:46:17holding that foot high I'm not on my
- 00:46:20back lifting I'm purely on my side
- 00:46:23trying to rotate the leg actually a
- 00:46:24little bit in thir 30 seconds
- 00:46:28here so by the end of this your glute is
- 00:46:32on
- 00:46:34fire and you could do this test where
- 00:46:37you pump it up and immediately go back
- 00:46:40to the stretch that felt
- 00:46:43iffy same position I have blood flow
- 00:46:45rushing through it's squeezed up it
- 00:46:47feels intense now when I go to
- 00:46:50stretch it's different it's just
- 00:46:53different you can literally feel more
- 00:46:55protected to push on it you don't feel
- 00:46:57like you have to go as hard cranking but
- 00:47:00just holding this it feels like a safer
- 00:47:03stretch and it is you have the
- 00:47:06protection of a pump so in the short
- 00:47:09term it's a better idea to do this
- 00:47:11strength than stretch or you call it
- 00:47:14squeeze then stretch approach train
- 00:47:17something in the shortest range like a
- 00:47:19bicep curl I would do just here super
- 00:47:21pump up and then get on the wall and do
- 00:47:24a big stretch if you only stretch
- 00:47:26stretch only stretch only stretch
- 00:47:28because it's tight you're missing that
- 00:47:30tightness is a symptom ask why so outer
- 00:47:35hip drop set again can do two sets twice
- 00:47:38a week well Brandon what if I can
- 00:47:40already do that there's a lot of women
- 00:47:42that have just different levels of hip
- 00:47:43mobility off day one progression it goes
- 00:47:48further I got 2 lbs three pounds in this
- 00:47:52little ankle
- 00:47:53weight strap it up on the ankle
- 00:47:57get right back into it and restart as a
- 00:48:00beginner killer killer pump 30
- 00:48:05seconds 30
- 00:48:07seconds 30 seconds kick out got a back
- 00:48:11extens on my
- 00:48:12neck okay we got to talk about it look I
- 00:48:15have other shoes but when I wear
- 00:48:17barefoot shoes I mean it Barefoot just
- 00:48:20mind your
- 00:48:21business it's called a mechanical drop
- 00:48:25set where basically
- 00:48:27you do the hardest variation first then
- 00:48:30easier then easier like you do shoulder
- 00:48:33press straight into incline straight
- 00:48:36into flat all with the same weight it's
- 00:48:38essentially this that is the outer hip
- 00:48:40tightness we can work
- 00:48:42on last one I'll say we could just also
- 00:48:45go to back
- 00:48:46extension I understand the feeling of
- 00:48:49relief you get by just hanging out here
- 00:48:53or wanting to do those knee twisters
- 00:48:57wanting to stretch out the spine in this
- 00:49:01crazy twisting contorting way CU it
- 00:49:04feels
- 00:49:05good but it's like you know what also
- 00:49:07feels good when you crack your knuckles
- 00:49:11now what happens you crack your knuckles
- 00:49:12again tomorrow and you crack them twice
- 00:49:14a day and they're still sore you crack
- 00:49:16them three times a day four times a day
- 00:49:17five times a day you go to a Cairo get
- 00:49:19shifted you get adjustments twice a
- 00:49:22week you start to abuse the soft tissue
- 00:49:26and join joints because you're skipping
- 00:49:28the muscular side where you're supposed
- 00:49:30to be strong so this isn't bad but if
- 00:49:34you can't even do one back extension why
- 00:49:36are you twisting contorting the bones
- 00:49:39when there's no protection of the muscle
- 00:49:41so I would urge you as much as you can
- 00:49:44to resist all the Band-Aid relief tools
- 00:49:47all of the like deep stretch deep relax
- 00:49:50it feels good in the short term and it
- 00:49:52does nothing for you long term you're
- 00:49:54just treating symptoms and not getting
- 00:49:56to the root cause so if you are going to
- 00:49:59do any kind of flexion for Relief I
- 00:50:03would take the same squeeze then stretch
- 00:50:07approach I would first
- 00:50:11start some mess in
- 00:50:14here small New York City
- 00:50:17Apartments back extension ISO hold do a
- 00:50:21lighter set don't treat this like your
- 00:50:22normal training session if you've gotten
- 00:50:24to reps that's fine still do a hold if
- 00:50:27you really want to stretch out the back
- 00:50:28do one minute get a little bit of a pump
- 00:50:31wake up the muscles
- 00:50:33first get everything in this short
- 00:50:35squeezed range that we talked about it's
- 00:50:37not stretched one minute okay I got a
- 00:50:40little bit of a back pump things feel a
- 00:50:43little
- 00:50:44protected now we can go to something
- 00:50:47like an elephant
- 00:50:49walk
- 00:50:50which is controlled flexion of the spine
- 00:50:54but now you have some pump in in the
- 00:50:56back where it's not just guessing if the
- 00:50:58discs are going to hold guessing if the
- 00:51:01bones are going to get irritated you
- 00:51:03have a really good feel and sense right
- 00:51:05now and a swelled up effect of the
- 00:51:08muscles so if you go I start with two
- 00:51:10legs simply floating through this
- 00:51:14increased tension of the spine when you
- 00:51:17extend the legs a few things happen one
- 00:51:19the nerves get stretched that run all
- 00:51:21the way down the leg to the to the disc
- 00:51:23grot basically when you straighten the
- 00:51:26legs everything things getting pulled on
- 00:51:28also when you straighten the legs it's
- 00:51:30pulling all the connective tissue and
- 00:51:32fascia right at your sacrum and your
- 00:51:35spine So eventually of course this
- 00:51:38progresses to different levels I would
- 00:51:41start two legs for 30
- 00:51:43reps all the
- 00:51:45way until about 6 in off the ground once
- 00:51:48you get to being able to
- 00:51:51tolerate 30 reps with two
- 00:51:54legs almost touching the ground
- 00:51:58then I would say it's pretty safe to
- 00:52:00start doing one leg cuz the one leg
- 00:52:03Elephant Walk puts more than
- 00:52:0650% force on one side of the spine at a
- 00:52:09time you're literally popping out the
- 00:52:11hip in a certain direction to make that
- 00:52:14happen so one-sided back injuries can
- 00:52:16really get exposed in that I would start
- 00:52:18two
- 00:52:19legs again this is just a master class
- 00:52:23blast of things to work on but the
- 00:52:26princip are what I want you to take home
- 00:52:28from this The Squeeze then stretch is a
- 00:52:31much safer approach than just yanking on
- 00:52:34a chronically tight sensitive tissue ask
- 00:52:37your body why why is my back
- 00:52:40sensitive why do I have imbalances all
- 00:52:44throughout my hips after back injury why
- 00:52:46does my back feel so incredibly weak and
- 00:52:50why is my back tight as [ __ ] when you
- 00:52:53ask these questions the answer is
- 00:52:55usually not the relief tool you're using
- 00:52:57it's not the Band-Aid my back is tight
- 00:53:00because I don't stretch enough you
- 00:53:02stretch three times a day on these
- 00:53:04little dinky Band-Aids that can't be it
- 00:53:07it's got to be a different answer why is
- 00:53:09my back sensitive I take painkillers I'm
- 00:53:12taking Gaba I'm taking these nerve doing
- 00:53:16affecting medicine I'm getting cortical
- 00:53:18steroid injections I'm doing everything
- 00:53:20I can to dull the pain why is my back
- 00:53:23sensitive cuz those things are not it
- 00:53:26you're just literally blowing out the
- 00:53:28smoke but the fire is still there it's
- 00:53:29never going to work
- 00:53:31so your [ __ ] back is
- 00:53:35temporary it will only last as long as
- 00:53:38you try to use avoidance and Band-Aids
- 00:53:41as a tool to fix it now it's Circle back
- 00:53:45I came in
- 00:53:46hot with some
- 00:53:48shoutouts and some name drops in the
- 00:53:52beginning and I don't want to say
- 00:53:54there's again I'm just being extra
- 00:53:56thorough there's value in that stuff I
- 00:53:59am a formerly
- 00:54:01injured backs sufferer and that's why I
- 00:54:03come in with this sort of energy just
- 00:54:06being clear and Unapologetic that [ __ ]
- 00:54:07did not work for me and I was a physical
- 00:54:10therapist in training working in clinics
- 00:54:12taking people through it studying
- 00:54:13exercise science in school I literally
- 00:54:15knew the whole Theory top to bottom it
- 00:54:17did not work when I got hurt so unless
- 00:54:21somebody has climbed the mountain I'm
- 00:54:24trying to climb I'm not going with them
- 00:54:26on that Journey even if they're a
- 00:54:28mountaineering expert and they went to
- 00:54:29school like it's there's value there I'm
- 00:54:31not saying that these people are not
- 00:54:33experts but I think widely the industry
- 00:54:37is missing the next steps so we've
- 00:54:40learned how to get people out of acute
- 00:54:42immediate back pain but we haven't
- 00:54:45prevented The Chronic cases back pain
- 00:54:48cases are going up in society it's the
- 00:54:50number one cause of
- 00:54:52disability it's almost just a a thing of
- 00:54:55age we call it and I think the biggest
- 00:54:57culprit is the idea of avoidance being a
- 00:55:01solution you can never avoid a problem
- 00:55:04and expect it to just be mysteriously
- 00:55:06better over time you are it's like I
- 00:55:09remember being dead dead
- 00:55:12broke and I would never want to open my
- 00:55:15Chase app like just naturally I would
- 00:55:17want to avoid checking how bad my
- 00:55:19problem is and it would never made it
- 00:55:21better ever and you are in back debt
- 00:55:26and so the idea of avoidance if you
- 00:55:29never round your back you could never
- 00:55:30hurt it I got to be careful every single
- 00:55:33moment of my
- 00:55:35life you might prevent the debt from
- 00:55:38getting worse but you're never going to
- 00:55:39fix it and odds are life is just too
- 00:55:42dangerous anyways you're going to get in
- 00:55:43these flare ups oh great
- 00:55:48Heavens so avoidance will never bring
- 00:55:50you back it can only prevent it from
- 00:55:53getting
- 00:55:54worse and this game is so tricky of a
- 00:55:58sensitive area that's become your whole
- 00:56:00life focus of trying to fix this and it
- 00:56:02has so much fear and pain associated to
- 00:56:04it just go slow make a two-year plan for
- 00:56:08you to fix your back and expect a little
- 00:56:10flare up but in the long game it doesn't
- 00:56:12matter you're trying to build evidence
- 00:56:14it's
- 00:56:15investing 5 seconds on the back
- 00:56:17extension hold is an investment rest
- 00:56:20aside for today you did a good job
- 00:56:23that's it and a month from now maybe
- 00:56:24it's 15 seconds this is about sticking
- 00:56:27to laws of philosophy that you
- 00:56:29understand I can reverse engineer any
- 00:56:33problem that is slowly gotten worse over
- 00:56:35time and I could do the opposite and try
- 00:56:37to slowly make it better over time so
- 00:56:41build the evidence in your body play the
- 00:56:43long game hopefully this convinces you
- 00:56:45to give up the Band-Aids as much as you
- 00:56:47can you got to do what you got to do
- 00:56:50take a Tylenol if something gets crazy
- 00:56:52I'm not trying to be you know dogmatic
- 00:56:55about just suffering and pain but make a
- 00:56:58plan that makes sense for you and then
- 00:57:01whether it's a year two years you have a
- 00:57:04different kind of confidence that isn't
- 00:57:05just in uh you know fix your back in six
- 00:57:09weeks guaranteed or money back [ __ ]
- 00:57:12program you see online that I've Just
- 00:57:13Seen thousands of because I did them um
- 00:57:17so if you need help we do have a
- 00:57:19Shameless plugin the lowback ability.com
- 00:57:22site it is a road map of all this stuff
- 00:57:24I just showed it also has a killer
- 00:57:26Community we got thousands of people in
- 00:57:28the group chats all at different stages
- 00:57:30of the rehab and it's community-led I'm
- 00:57:33not even the most active in there
- 00:57:34sometimes there's so many leaders of
- 00:57:36people who have overcome way worse back
- 00:57:39injuries than me that may be able to
- 00:57:41help you if you're coming off of a
- 00:57:43specific thing too so that's pay what
- 00:57:45you want you can sign up for any amount
- 00:57:47that you want it's a monthly
- 00:57:48subscription but honestly you can figure
- 00:57:51it out yourself as well if you just want
- 00:57:52to pull gems from here take the
- 00:57:54philosophy of training the back directly
- 00:57:57very slowly very
- 00:58:01methodically yeah just play the long
- 00:58:03game do not buy into the quick fixes
- 00:58:05don't buy into the fear you got your
- 00:58:07back for your whole life so you got your
- 00:58:09whole life to fix it appreciate yall all
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