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How I Ended My Lower Back Pain – Part 6: Ab Wheel
This $10 Ab Wheel really works! I use it every day as part of my exercise routine for permanently eliminating lower back pain. In this video, I demonstrate how I use the Ab Wheel. Abdominal muscles are really important in supporting your lower back, so I have looked for a variety of exercises aimed at strengthening these muscles. The Ab Wheel really works, but you have to make sure you are using it on your abs and not your arms (see demo).
These exercises may seem like a lot of work. And they are. That’s why I have used low-cost machines to make them more fun and interesting. In the past I used the excuse that I didn’t have time to exercise. When the back pain gets as severe and chronic as mine was, the “I don’t have time” rationalization just doesn’t make sense.
Time Management is about priorities (see my Time Management Workshops website at www.TimeManagementWorkshops.com). When your back pain gets intense enough, it becomes a major priority. Surgery or drugs seem like the easy way out, since they don’t require all this exercise. But my step father died from that kind of thinking.
About 15 years ago, before my back pain began, my step father (then 75 years of age) was in such back pain that he decided to have back surgery. The doctor told him there was risk, but there was a 70% chance that the surgery would be successful. Sound like good odds to you? I don’t know if the surgery itself was successful. My step father never lived to find out. He suffered a stroke in the recovery room immediately after the surgery and died within a few days.
That experience has left me with some negative feelings about spinal surgery. If it’s necessary, so be it. But if you haven’t been on a good solid stretching and exercise program for the year prior to your decision to have surgery, I feel you’re making a big mistake. Obviously this depends on the actual cause of your back pain. But if you are approaching 50, or are over 50 and you’re not on a daily back & abdominal stretching/exercise program, beware.
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How I Ended My Lower Back Pain – Part 7: Ab Coaster
I love this machine! In refining my streching & exercise program, I bought a few pieces of equipment, although this one cost me $400, it was the most expensive one I bought. It’s not about how much you spend, it’s about how much you use it, and whether it does what it’s supposed to do. This one is a winner.
In this video I demonstrate how I use the Ab Coaster. Of all the abdominal exercises I do, this one is the most effective. The most important thing you have to do in eliminating low back pain is to strengthen your abdominal muscles. Your lower back needs their support. If you’re overweight, get rid of those extra pounds – they are killing your back!
After 8 years of intense low back pain, I had to do something, and this exercise & stretching program did it in 6 months. Now all I have to do is maintain it for the rest of my life. I have no doubt that I will continue to sustain this program. I guess I needed 8 years of lower back pain as my wake-up call. But I’m awake now, and I realize that I caused I caused the problem by ignoring my body’s need for strong back support muscles. I needed this program at age 45, but I didn’t get it going until age 56. If I needed it at age 45, how much more will I need it at age 65, or age 75?
The best time to start anything is now. Actually you can only start or do anything NOW. You can say you’ll do it in the future, but if you ever do it, when you do it – it will be NOW. Some people continually put important things off until some future time that never comes. If you have back pain, the time to start your daily stretching & exercise program is NOW.
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