03/02/2026
5 Back Health Myths (that are holding your body back)…
❌ Myth 1: “I need to protect my back by avoiding bending and twisting.”
➡️ Reality: Your spine is designed to bend, twist, extend and rotate. Avoiding these just makes you less tolerant to them. Real resilience comes from training these movements safely and progressively—because life will demand them anyway.
❌ Myth 2: “A strong core means only planks and keeping neutral.”
➡️ Reality: A strong core works dynamically—controlling movement, load and force in all directions. ADLs involve reaching, lifting, rotating and stepping… not holding a plank in your kitchen.
❌ Myth 3: “If it hurts, it means damage.”
➡️ Reality: Pain ≠ harm. Often it’s a sensitivity issue, not a structural one. Building resilience means gradual exposure to movements your nervous system currently feels threatened by—so everyday tasks feel safe again.
❌ Myth 4: “My back pain means I should stop training.”
➡️ Reality: The right training is often the solution. Strengthening the spine, hips and shoulder girdle together builds a body that can cope with real-world demands—from lifting kids to loading the car.
❌ Myth 5: “Good posture will fix my back.”
➡️ Reality: No posture is harmful—being stuck in one is. A resilient back can tolerate all postures and movements, because daily life constantly changes position, load and speed.
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The big takeaway 👇
If you want a resilient back, you have to train it for everything life throws at it—bending, lifting, twisting, carrying, reacting, stepping, reaching.
That’s ADLs. That’s real-world movement. That’s what we rebuild.
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