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jugjugonMay 4, 2019

My movement teacher Ido Portal shares these two main principles:

- Every day is a spine day.

- The best way to get rid of pain is to flush it away with tons of new information" (In other words, you have to move the part that hurts a lot)

Preventing back problems is thus straightforward: move your spine a lot, every day. Here are some suggestions, that I started working with and have had very good results with:

* Do minimum 10 minutes of spine waves every day to increase vertebrae mobility - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlMntE1WzQ

* Change positions when working. Learn to squat in a relaxed position, so you can for example type emails while squatting - http://placeofpersistence.com/30-30-squat-challenge-by-ido-p....

* Learn to hang passively. Apart from stronger shoulders, inter-vertebrae pressure get released. - http://placeofpersistence.com/30-day-hanging-challenge-by-id....

* Learn a proper handstand. This had tremendous advantages to my wrists, elbows, shoulders, spine, core. - http://gmb.io/handstand

Such combination of movements introduces plethora of new positions to your spine: rotations, extensions, static holds.

I liked the book "Move Your DNA" which explains why constant movement is so important and how inactivity affects our bodies.

EDIT: Typos & editing

calebmonDec 24, 2015

My wife and I are reading this book called "Move Your DNA" (by Katy Bowman). She has an interesting thesis: modern exercise is "junk movement" (like "junk" food). The idea is that humans were meant to move more throughout the day, and that trying to cram all of our needed movement into a small 45-minute block is similar to how junk food crams tons of calories into a small bit of food.

We're not finished with it yet, but initially, I find it interesting.