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- Brad Heineck physical therapist.
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- In our opinion of course Bob.
- Yeah we're gonna talk about five exercises that are
terrible for your back.
This is based on the work of Dr. Stuart Biguel.
I know some of you will not agree with this video.
Tough, that's the oh, I mean this is based on but I'm really
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All right to the first exercise and I think this one's not
controversial at all most people know this one Brad.
You wanna show it?
- Sure I'll show it.
- I'll have you hurt your back doing this.
Now it's a full sit ups with either a straight leg raise
or with the knee bent, either way is bad.
- So yeah we're talking about, this is a very traditional.
When I was in grade school this is what everyone had to do.
- [Bob] Yeah and they would measure how many you could do
in a minute or whatever.
- Now that was--
- That's very hard on the disc very hard on the lower back.
If you bend your knees just as bad that's not helping
at all either.
All right Brad I don't want you to hurt your back.
Next one.
- People are gonna ask how do we do them?
We do have videos on how to do core exercise.
- Core exercises without hurting your back.
This is the one that surprised Brad today but he did
extensive studies on this measuring the pressure
in the lower back.
- I didn't do them Dr. McGill did.
- Dr. McGill did, so here's the Superman pose.
So you're up like this like Superman,
but you're also bringing your legs up like this.
Really high compressive forces on the low back.
I know this is very common, we actually Brad, I think we
actually even mentioned this in a video.
- Oh yeah.
I think it does do a good job of strengthening the muscles
but the negative part is it puts a lot of stress
on the spine.
- And shows you that we're evolving too,
we're willing to learn,
we don't know everything, and you know as we learn we
pass it on to you.
Next one again not a big surprise here Brad,
this is toe touches.
So you try to basically lean forward and touch your toes
it's a little better if you can keep your back straight
and go down and go all the way down but it's really
just not good for your back.
- There are so many other better alternatives and we do
have videos on those too we're not gonna talk about them now
but we do, and maybe we should make some more.
But yeah that's--
- Yeah the whole thing with toe touches is what are you
trying to accomplish?
One you just try to stretch your hamstrings.
- Right.
- But a lot of people are trying to stretch their lower back
and you don't wanna stretch your lower back like that
you wanna keep it stable and like a good solid core.
- Right.
- So next one kind of falls along the same line is
the wind mill.
Where you know we have people doing toe touching like this.
- Right.
- And now you're bending and twisting which is even
harder on your back.
So, it's harder on the disk.
- And again there's, if you keep your back straight
and you hinge at the hips.
- Vast majority of people aren't gonna be able to
do it correctly, and even if they do it's still a lot of
tore if you think about the physics of it you know
you're putting the, you are the physics guy,
but it's a lot more stress on the low back.
- Right you know I agree with all of that Bob.
- Okay, the next one to, a little bit controversial here,
but again there's an easier way to do it
is a double leg raise.
So I'm down like this and I lift it up like this
and just puts too much tork great way for working the core
too much core, too much tork on the low back.
Now alternative is you put your hands underneath here
to give you some support to the low back
and instead of doing double just do single ones
going back and forth like this.
I do these all the time.
- Yeah but the bicycle ride.
- Yeah the bicycle ride, I even do a little bit of head
going up like this at the same time.
- Sure.
- It's not, that's a good work out,
yeah that would work the front abdomen and lower abdomen
and it'll start to stabilize that core.
- You exercise like this at home or?
- In a tie yes I like to always look good
when I'm working out.
I'll go to the gym and I'll work out like this.
- I just say that because we get comments.
- Sometimes I wear a full suit.
I like to wear a tux even.
- You're killing me Bob.
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