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A Kinesiologist’s Blueprint for Joint-Friendly Lifting
We’ve had it all wrong. You must bend your back to avoid pain!
If there’s one fitness myth that needs busting it’s that you should only lift with a straight back. Firstly, it’s anatomically impossible to achieve. Secondly, it’s horrible health advice. While this may shock you, things will all make sense once you take a step back and realize just how robust and adaptable your body is.
The perfect lifting posture that’s plastered across WorkSafe videos and hospital walls will only program your brain to be afraid to use your back as it was designed. It implies it can be easily harmed by doing certain movements the “wrong way”. This brings about unnecessary anxiety and even movement avoidance behavior that will only spur more pain, stiffness, and dysfunction.
The very advice that’s supposed to protect our joints is what’s causing the most harm. All it’s doing is instilling a sense of fragility when in reality, you’re strong than you think.
As a kinesiologist and trainer who’s spent years working at a chiropractic clinic, I want to help you let go of the beliefs holding you down and get back to pain and restriction-free…
