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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => Training Q&A => Topic started by: calfzilla on November 10, 2014, 04:19:17 PM
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So when I workout especially on shoulder or arm day where I am holding heavy weights, it feels like my back or spine muscles are compressed. I can easily fix it by hanging from the muti station chin-up bar for a fee seconds. I hear and feel a couple cracks and pops and it feels much better.
Anyone else experience this?
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Guess what your saying is that the back/spine are feeling pressured or tense? As long as the spinal erector are even in a average, or normal condition, a compression of the disc should be no problem. But than again, always the exception. Though, if your developing a herniated (most don't realize that possibility) that may be a issue.
Just throwing this idea in, but might try hanging/stretching before working out, rather than after feeling discomfort (or even between sets). Your right in hanging from a overhead bar, allowing the body to settle in, as it were. Some with compressed disk have found relief that way. Using a dipping belt, with added weight has also given a better stretch to the spine. Hanging has also helped many men with tight shoulder muscles & joints. So use a wide grip, some closer...take your pick or use any grip version you want. ....your body.
Good Luck.
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try using a foam roller.
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Some folks also report feeling lumbro-sacral relief from the "weightlessness" of floating in water.
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Guess what your saying is that the back/spine are feeling pressured or tense? As long as the spinal erector are even in a average, or normal condition, a compression of the disc should be no problem. But than again, always the exception. Though, if your developing a herniated (most don't realize that possibility) that may be a issue.
Just throwing this idea in, but might try hanging/stretching before working out, rather than after feeling discomfort (or even between sets). Your right in hanging from a overhead bar, allowing the body to settle in, as it were. Some with compressed disk have found relief that way. Using a dipping belt, with added weight has also given a better stretch to the spine. Hanging has also helped many men with tight shoulder muscles & joints. So use a wide grip, some closer...take your pick or use any grip version you want. ....your body.
Good Luck.
Good info thanks. I will try hanging before the workout as well now.
It's amazing how it can feel compressed then a couple seconds of hanging and a few pops and the pain is relieved. Feels real good.
@ritch I do have a foam roller and that helps as well. For this particular problem the hanging seems to work better but the foam roller works great for getting out "knots".
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After every weight workout i go on a dip bar, put myself a dip position, then i swing my hips right and left, rotate my lower body from left to right. I usually hear cracking sounds, and feel a relieve. Never had any back pain ever since.
Sometimes my lowerback feels compressed which translate to a pain in my balls (pinched nerve i guess), and this solves the issue right away.
best would be to hand upside down with gravity boots too.