enable me to do reverse back extensions against progressive resistance. is
proved to be more beneficial than the manual resistance.. Any back problems you may have, or get, cannot duplicate mine because
your back structure is different from mine. Your injury history is also dif-
ferent. But you can learn from my experiences, and get insights that, when
fine-tuned, may help you.Your aches and pains
. If you are no longer in your teens or twenties it is almost certain you are car-
rying some aches and pains that you have learned to live with. You will have
modified your training, cut out some exercises, eliminated some of the active
things you did in your youth, and accepted it all as part of getting older.. Depending on the extent and type of damage you have, I believe you can
partly if not wholly return to a relatively injury-free state. Investigate trigger
point therapy yourself and apply it very seriously.. In her book, page , Prudden notes that only about of people show
no benefit from “myotherapy” (her name for the trigger point therapy she
teaches). ese are comforting and inspiring words for everyone, not just
people who exercise.
For the other percent, we have found that we can alleviate all of the pain in
most, most of the pain in others and at least control the pain in the rest; that is
if they will continue with their exercises at home for the rest of their lives.. Before I got injured in I had little or no interest in injuries and how to
deal with them. I had never needed to have an interest because it seemed
academic, not practical. is is how it is with most people. Until you start to
suffer you do not learn much about how you could have prevented the suf-
fering in the first place. Had I been interested before, and had I fully grasped
the importance of good exercise form, I could have prevented the injuries
from occurring. And should any injuries have occurred, I could have gotten
over them without having to get detrained if I had known of trigger point
therapy.My mistaken view of injuries
. Until I experienced the relief from pain and discomfort that results from
using trigger point therapy I used to believe, like you probably do, that all