How to Cure a Bad Back

Well its a few days on and the back is still sore. My own stupid fault and I'm still annoyed at my text book errors. Too much weight increase too quickly and too many reps to boot.

So I've been busy researching bad backs but no new revelations. My own theory of doing the lying back extension as many times as possible seems to be as good as anything.



I do 30 at a time and pause on the end of the upward movement. Certainly after here is real relief and for a short while I am fooled into thinking its gone. I had a similar injury when my eldest son was a baby and I was getting him in and out of the car seat. It worked then and is still the best way I know of dealing with a lower back injury.

I'm also stretching by arching back and then bending forward. Finally I'm using the anti-inflam gel at night.

The pain comes back once I've been sitting down for a while and when in bed.


So I shall keep experimenting to see how to get the repair work working In the meantime I'll lay off the weights!

Happy training!