I went through years of misery and pain with my back before I went to see a Chiropractor. My history wasn’t great, I’d had problems due to work issues not to mention a serious car crash when I was 21. Yet he jumped straight past those instead concentrating on my exercise regime, his first target was the crosstrainer.
That seems whacky to me, why pick on the crosstrainer? I’d “done my back in” at least 3 times in my life, 2 seriously enough to warrant months of physio. My car crash had damaged my neck quite badly, basically there are plenty of reasons why I might have a bad back. Even if you do want to have a go at how I exercise surely there are plenty of other things in the gym that are as bad as a crosstrainer?
Just about every fixed weight machine involves using your body in a motion that isn’t natural. Serious fitness freaks hate fixed machines and would much rather just pick up some free weights.
The other thing I can’t understand about why a Chiropractor would pick on the crosstrainer is the number of people who use them. If they really do damage your hip and back then wouldn’t we be going through a massive pandemic of gym people with back problems? It’s not happening as far as I’m aware?
So even though I could see no sense in it I stopped using the crosstrainer at the gym, I did this for 2 years. My back stopped hurting. Then 2 months ago I decided to give it a go again. Despite the usual burn of getting used to a new piece of equipment I felt that I came through unscathed…until I woke up the next morning. Ouch, I could hardly move, all down one side of my back and hip was killing me like the worst sciatica ever. The morale of this story is simple, not all things make sense and it pays to listen to people that you are paying to know more about a subject than you. I’ll not bother with the crosstrainer again.
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