Re: Neck modification suggestion

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In a message dated 04/12/2000 6:32:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

j.clappison@... writes:

<< Any suggestion on strengthening the

lower back would be greatly appreciated. >>

Catch 22 is the abs need to be strengthened to protect the lower back

I always try to keep my tailbone tucked 24/7 which helps

Barb

who has had lower back problems since 9 years old

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Thanks Barb,

I sometimes suspect that it's the difference in strength between my

different muscles groups (abs, obliques back) that sometimes makes it worse.

I'm holding my abs in more & more, and can feel that it's 'working' all

round now, not just the 'sucking the gut in' that it felt like before.

Thankfully, I was right about TB, I'm getting feeling from areas of muscles

in my torso that I wasn't aware of, so it's 'reaching the parts then others

haven't' *LOL* (that was a beer advertising slogan over here!) but I'm

having to listen really hard to my body not to cause more problems. I guess

I could say that thanks to TB me and my body are communicating even better

these days *hehe*

Jill

who's in a silly mood today

<< Any suggestion on strengthening the

lower back would be greatly appreciated.

Catch 22 is the abs need to be strengthened to protect the lower back

I always try to keep my tailbone tucked 24/7 which helps

Barb

who has had lower back problems since 9 years old>>

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> In a message dated 04/12/2000 6:32:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> j.clappison@... writes:

>

> << Any suggestion on strengthening the

> lower back would be greatly appreciated. >>

>

> With all the PT you have been through, I'm not sure what you already know. Do

you already do pelvic tilts (lying on your back with your knees bent, hands

either behind your head or at your sides, and rolling your lower back to the

floor, holding your abs in for 10 seconds)? All my back doctors have had me do

that one several times a day for 10 repetitions. Now, that I am more

" advanced " , I still occasionally do the pelvic tilts, but also do the 's

version of the tilts from AL5 and the advanced where you lift your

pelvis into the air and hold it (arms at the side). I think just doing taebo

and really concentrating on holding in your abs for every single move (punches,

knee raises, kicks, you name it) has done wonders for my lower back.

Elena

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Jill Clappison wrote:

>

> Thanks Barb,

> I sometimes suspect that it's the difference in strength between my

> different muscles groups (abs, obliques back) that sometimes makes it worse.

> I'm holding my abs in more & more, and can feel that it's 'working' all

> round now, not just the 'sucking the gut in' that it felt like before.

>

Sucking in the guts is good. In addition, really encourages us to

expel the air in our stomach during the ab work. During an ab crunch,

for example, blow the air out of your stomach at the highest point of

the crunch. Someone who used to post here, I think, had a great

imagery for this. She said picture that you are being punched in the

stomach and are expelling the air with an " oof " noise on impact. Use

the same imagery with all taebo moves, e.g., at the highest point of a

knee raise. It does wonders for your stomach and lower back in the

process.

Elena