[Mingwan]

Originally Posted by Vincz

I diagnose and treat spine conditions daily, your symptoms are likely due to weak abdominal muscles (especially if you are carrying excessive weight up front). Focus on working on the stabilizing muscles in the abdomen and low back and it will improve. That tight feeling in the low back is due to constant muscle strain/fatigue, the abdominal and low back work synergistically to stabilize the entire upper body, when one is weak the other has to take up the slack and fatigues easily, this is why injuries associated with the spine occur (well, commonly, no exclusively).

That actually makes a lot of sense. After discharging from the military, I slowly phased out doing abdominal training. I actually don’t do any focused abdominal training now (I’ve gotten complacent I guess, and lazy about it).

Originally Posted by Performancedieselpros

Lot of things can cause his issue.... outside of the typical sticker slap of "build your core".

Majority of postural imbalances are actually associated with having one segment significantly stronger than the other, especially in the hip flexors.

Large root cause of many lower back injuries are the result of underdeveloped hamstrings, and tight glutes and hip flexors!

For example a large majority of the lifting population that deadlifts, can pull traditional, yet can't do stiff legs for shit. This is result of the hip flexors, glutes, and quads being the primary compared to a stiff leg deadlift placing emphasis on the hamstrings and erector spinae.

Sadly the medical community tends to cookie cut the diagnosis to what you mentioned which is great, but if not addressing root causes will continue to result in muscular contradictions.

Same thing goes for rotator cuff, and neglect to scapula mobility aswell as under developed rhomboids and posterior delts, combined with excessively tight anterior delts and pec minor.

Also have weak hamstrings.

[Mr.SugarSkulls]

All of a sudden everyone's a doctor.

[Mingwan]

Originally Posted by Mr.SugarSkulls

All of a sudden everyone's a doctor.

Im a doctor. An e-doctor. Got my ph-d on webMD. Graduated with a 4.0.

[1MOREMOD]

My back hurts and my knee and my shoulder and my elbow. Im old I just keep going.

[Mr.SugarSkulls]

Originally Posted by Mingwan

Im a doctor. An e-doctor. Got my ph-d on webMD. Graduated with a 4.0.

WoW! WebMD!

Can I haz WebMD title too?

[Vincz]

Originally Posted by Bt12

Serious question... vincz.... do your clients have double D’s and are they mostly women? Cause if so im jealous.

I wish, maybe I should look into a job in plastics next

[Bt12]

Originally Posted by Vincz

I wish, maybe I should look into a job in plastics next

Without telling you what I do for a living...

Silicone is in short supply FYI. Lol

[Bt12]

Originally Posted by Mr.SugarSkulls

WoW! WebMD!

Can I haz WebMD title too?

Surfing porn doesn’t count for human anatomy credits.

[Mingwan]

Originally Posted by Bt12

Surfing porn doesn’t count for human anatomy credits.

But it does go towards credits for a minor in sex Ed.

[lsturbointeg]

Originally Posted by PoorLurker

People that stand in front of the dumbbells and perform exercises without noticing that in trying to walk to my bench carrying I am about to drop

Do your freaking curls for girls behind the row of benches

just yesterday i had some new guy do this to me. i was doing dumbell shoulder presses on the seated bench and this guy stands right in front of me. Grabs the dumbells off the rack and starts to perform bicep curls in front of me and than when he's done puts it back and just stands there with his back towards me! i'm literally 3 feet away with 80lb dumbells on my lap waiting for this f face to move and he just stands there. the guy next to me actually tells the guy if he can move. He looks back at me and says "am i in the way?" I really wanted to say "No F Face i just like you standing in front of me"

[Mingwan]

anyone ever leave their dumbells on a bench to get water then come back to some dude using them? i have had that multiple times.

[smoosh]

Originally Posted by Mingwan

anyone ever leave their dumbells on a bench to get water then come back to some dude using them? i have had that multiple times.

I got into an argument with two dudes a couple days ago who did this exact same thing. I'm standing no more than 5 feet from the lat pulldown, my water bottle, keys, and phone are literally directly next to the seat. I like to perform a movement then get up and stretch the muscle to get blood flow moving / loosen up. I'm standing right there watching this guy begin to pick up my stuff and move it...

So I walk over and say, "Are you kidding me man?" He looks confused. "I'm using that. What, you don't see my stuff right there, and me standing 5 feet from it??" I say. Guy starts smiling and giggling. Other guy puffs his chest out. Silence for like a solid 7 seconds. Then puffed-out chest douche goes, "Wouldn't common sense prevail and tell you to sit at the seat if you're using it?" And I respond, "Wouldn't common sense prevail and tell you to use any of the other two lat pulldowns where there isn't someone's stuff?" Douches just walk off and go to the next lat pulldown.

Yes, out of the three exact same lat pulldown machines, these two douches make the well-informed rational decision to move my stuff and use that machine, rather than just walk 10 feet to the right and use any of the other two ones that were empty...

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by Mingwan

It’s always the smaller or weaker guys that do this.

Napoleon syndrome

[G35POPPEDMYCHERRY]

I am so happy mostly everyone has proper etiquette at my gym. Rarely new people but same people every day...it feels almost like family you don't interact with, because they are busting there ass in there everyday and you get used to seeing them... I always hover around something and take a gander around before I start using something. I always leave for water and usually my stuff isnt taken so I return teh favor

[1MOREMOD]

I know a lot of people that carry at the gym. You can't predict when or where it will be needed. If you only take it certain places you might as well take it no place.

[Mingwan]

people need to shower, use deodorant, and change out their stank ass clothes when they go to the gym. Nothing like taking in a deep breathe for your last rep then smelling asshole.

[HyeWarrior]

In the middle of doing hack squats with headphones in when a gym thot gets my attention to ask if I’m using the neighboring empty squat rack. Like really?

[Mr.SugarSkulls]

Originally Posted by HyeWarrior

In the middle of doing hack squats with headphones in when a gym thot gets my attention to ask if IÂ’m using the neighboring empty squat rack. Like really?

Gym thot wanted to make sure you were looking when she was using it.

I must really have a "fuck off" face at the gym because no one ever talks to me. :

[Mr.SugarSkulls]

My goodness-

So tonight the gym annoyed ME.

Once an hour, every hour I was there they'd play that "walk it like I talk it, walk it walk it like I talk it" song.

I hate my industry. Seriously, music is shit.

[Bt12]

Originally Posted by Mr.SugarSkulls

My goodness-

So tonight the gym annoyed ME.

Once an hour, every hour I was there they'd play that "walk it like I talk it, walk it walk it like I talk it" song.

I hate my industry. Seriously, music is shit.

I don’t even know what song that is

[Mr.SugarSkulls]

Originally Posted by Bt12

I donÂ’t even know what song that is

Walk it like I talk it.
Walk it walk it like I talk it.

Walk it like I talk it.
Walk it walk it like I talk it.

Now repeat that 10039303044 more times.

[Performancedieselpros]