while you get in position to suspend your torso. Your assistant should apply
sufficient pressure to your legs to prevent your legs rising when your torso is
freely suspended. en take your hands from the floor and simply hang.. More is not better with inversion therapy (as with so much of physical
training and therapy). Just one minute or so is all the time you need to
achieve maximum decompression of your spine. A longer duration is not
necessary, and a shorter time may work very well for you. I have even found
that inverting myself for longer than – seconds is counterproductive
because it leaves me with an irritated back for a day or two. Better to have
several very short inversions per day rather than one long one. Invert for up
to seconds one or more times per day, and you may experience immediate
benefits.. Inversion therapy will not build a bigger and stronger body. But it will help
maintain the healthy injury-free lower back that is absolutely essential for
intensive weight training—especially intensive deadlifts, stiff-legged dead-
lifts, squats and presses, which are major core exercises.e Back Revolution “anti-gravity” equipment.
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