Going sober for October

[Mike Muz]

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Not sure I feel superior for not having had a drink in over a decade, also having never tried smoking. Just see it as unnecessary expense for something that would do me harm .. Also why i dont have tatoos. Having said that, I am a biscuit monster! Maybe I should give those up for a month!

Mike

Biscuit monster?? Is that the UK counterpart of this chap?

David

DADDY ! :shock: :facepalm:

 

[Neil]

10-20 sit ups every morning and in 6 months that fatty tummy will be more or less gone.

I do 60 and a few stretches . . . . When I can motivate myself at 5.30am. But that's to try and relieve back pain. It doesn't though
Seems to come and go regardless.

What sort of back pain?

Sit ups tend to work the abdominals, working the back muscles (either lower back, or upper back) would take exercises that make primary demands of those muscles.

As I've got older, one thing I've tried to pay more attention to, is working lower back in the gym - it's an easily missed area for many, so can often be a weak area that becomes of more issue with age.

 

[Mike Muz]

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Hi Neil,

I get lower back pain, lumber area. Work stomach muscles as they're the balancing ones. Bad posture in my truck doesn't help, nor does slouching. Have to keep correcting myself. :roll:

Mike

 

[Neil]

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Hi Neil,

I get lower back pain, lumber area. Work stomach muscles as they're the balancing ones. Bad posture in my truck doesn't help, nor does slouching. Have to keep correcting myself. :roll:

Mike

Working stomach muscles is quite useful - although I'm not entirely sure it's the panacea for lumbar pain.

Assuming that's more to do with soft tissue / muscular, then working the lower back muscles would probably be a good idea too.

As a slight aside, there's plenty of issues from people training one side of the body, to the exclusion of the other - shoulder / upper back problems from people who train what they can see (chest and shoulders) but ignore what they can't (upper back and rear shoulders) and the disparity in muscular performance causes issues. Also sometimes with the leg / knee area (quads being disproportionately more developed than hamstrings).

 

[Mike Muz]

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Yes, hamstring muscles are left out of the equation when you cycle a lot. I really need to stretch those more often too. Anyway, we're going a bit off course with this thread. Good luck to all the drinkers, not sure I can lay off the biscuits but I'll give it a go.

Mike

 

[suburbanreuben]

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Hi Neil,

I get lower back pain, lumber area. Work stomach muscles as they're the balancing ones. Bad posture in my truck doesn't help, nor does slouching. Have to keep correcting myself. :roll:

Mike

Singlespeeding sorted out my lower back.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I have said it before on here, but kayaking is the panacea for lower back problems. I was told at 13 that I should give up on ideas of being a rugby player, or any other physical lifestyle.
My grandfather was told he maybe had ten years to live as a teen, and was sent to school high in the Swiss Alps where he took up climbing and wound up living into his seventies, a smoker and drunkard till the day he died.

Kayaking exercises and tones all the lower back muscles and everything else, shoulders, thighs and just everything.

Twenty minutes of kayaking is like a week in the gym.

And it is ******** fun!

 

[Mike Muz]

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Hi Neil,

I get lower back pain, lumber area. Work stomach muscles as they're the balancing ones. Bad posture in my truck doesn't help, nor does slouching. Have to keep correcting myself. :roll:

Mike

Singlespeeding sorted out my lower back.

Single speed bikes and off-road mtb riding are completely contradictory in my world. Just my opinion, no offence meant mate

I have said it before on here, but kayaking is the panacea for lower back problems. I was told at 13 that I should give up on ideas of being a rugby player, or any other physical lifestyle.
My grandfather was told he maybe had ten years to live as a teen, and was sent to school high in the Swiss Alps where he took up climbing and wound up living into his seventies, a smoker and drunkard till the day he died.

Kayaking exercises and tones all the lower back muscles and everything else, shoulders, thighs and just everything.

Twenty minutes of kayaking is like a week in the gym.

And it is ******** fun!

It does sound like fun actually, especially if I'm in Switzerland. Nearly took up rowing a while back, not sure that would have helped though.
Maybe swimming will help too thinking about it :!:
Especially the crawl, as it's mainly upper body if done correctly. Not in the sea down here though! The smell of it makes me wanna chunder!

Mike

 

[PurpleFrog]

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Hi Neil,

I get lower back pain, lumber area. Work stomach muscles as they're the balancing ones. Bad posture in my truck doesn't help, nor does slouching. Have to keep correcting myself. :roll:

Mike

Working stomach muscles is quite useful - although I'm not entirely sure it's the panacea for lumbar pain.

Assuming that's more to do with soft tissue / muscular, then working the lower back muscles would probably be a good idea too.

As a slight aside, there's plenty of issues from people training one side of the body, to the exclusion of the other - shoulder / upper back problems from people who train what they can see (chest and shoulders) but ignore what they can't (upper back and rear shoulders) and the disparity in muscular performance causes issues. Also sometimes with the leg / knee area (quads being disproportionately more developed than hamstrings).

If anyone really has a serious back-related problem, then they might want to look at Stuart McGill's work - he's the world's leading expert on spine mechanics thanks to a lot of weird experiments with pig spines and high tech sensors. He's now the go-to-guy for NFL players and MMA fighters with blown backs:

http://www.backfitpro.com/

Ab strength can help with some back problems, but a lot of the normal "ab" exercises people do - eg crunches - do spine damage and don't work the abs (standard crunches are more of a hip flexor exercise.)

 

[PurpleFrog]

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Hi Neil,

I get lower back pain, lumber area. Work stomach muscles as they're the balancing ones. Bad posture in my truck doesn't help, nor does slouching. Have to keep correcting myself. :roll:

Mike

Singlespeeding sorted out my lower back.

Yep: once you're used to that much pain anything short of your spine being torn out won't register...