Exercises for lower back pain

We want to gain strength in the areas where we’re generally weak or don’t normally train. 

When we get stronger through a range of motion, we can exponentially reduce injury. 

Many people over attach their identity to the gym. But fitness is just one area of life.  When you’re in your late 20s or early 30s, you may shift your focus from physique to longevity.

Be grateful that you can work out, not how much you lift. For example, lie in bed and imagine yourself wi...

You have to be just as strong moving in reverse as you are going forward.

1. Get stronger in reverse of what hurts.
2. Restore and train the full range of motion at a level that doesn’t hurt you. 

If you use only these two principles, you could create a s...

We may be at a point in life where we’re very weak and tender in some range of movement and start to avoid it. Instead, find the amount of load of full use that you can do and build up from there to what healthy people can do. 

• Backward sled drag: It forces your knee...

Kids in their teens who are having shoulder surgeries are just not strong enough in reverse of throwing a baseball.  You need to be strong enough in reverse of motion that could injure you.

• Start strengthening your external rotation. 
• You can strengthen the lower trap muscles i...

Most trainers tell people, “don’t let your knees go over your toes." The reason for this advice is that when your knee goes over your toe, there’s more pressure on your knee.

However, an Olympic trainer Charles Poliquin said the athlete whose knee can go farthest and strongest...

Rehab can give you an amazing workout. Physical therapy and exercise don’t have to be two different things. Physical therapy and exercise combine well together.

Combining physical therapy, exercise physical therapy and strength training can improve the mobility of younger people and prevent...