Thread 76494671

>be human
>sit too long
>Back pain
>Stand too long
>Back pain
>Get old
>Back pain
>Exist
>Back pain
Surely there has to be a solution to this, right? Strengthening your back muscles certainly helps, but I doubt it's enough when boomers and Gen Xers have such poor backs.
Most zoomers literally experience back pain and they aren't even 30 yet

>>76494671 (OP)
That's why you ift and get a strong back you pussy

>>76494687
Gen Xers and boomers have relatively strong muscles, now they walk with their backs in 90 degree angles

Because zoomers never develop actual back and core stability. Their screen-dominant upbringing dooms them from the beginning. For boomers, gen x and the earliest millenials, back pain is associated with older age because that's when, after years of sitting in an office, the physiques they built as kids and young men slowly went to shit. Zoomers are just speedrunning that since they spend their childhoods in front of the computer as well. Human beings are meant to move around for hours every day, and not just running in a straight line and picking weights up and down in repetitive ways, but climbing, crawling, swimming, and whatever else they had to do to navigate in nature. Think these guys dealt with stiff backs?

>>76494671 (OP)
>Be human
>Live an active lifestyle
>Pain is never an issue
Feels good.

>>76494671 (OP)
>Most zoomers
Judging from this board alone it's+35yo men in their "peak" who are experiencing chronic back pain

>>76494671 (OP)
>Strengthening your back muscles certainly helps, but I doubt it's enough
It's not. The missing piece for a lot of people's back pain is not just strengthening their back, but strengthening their GLUTES. When glutes are weak and underactive, the lower back starts compensating and trying to do their job as well its own.
And what helps weaken the glutes? Sitting on your ass all day. It all goes back to sitting around and being inactive anyway you slice it.

>>76494671 (OP)
>deadlift and backextensions
>never have back pain
it's easy, yet here on /fit/ they disparage deadlifting so much

>>76494671 (OP)
lie down?
get a better mattress and pillow?
sleep with better posture?

Stop ignoring your core. The core supports the back. A bad core will lead to a bad back.

>>76494671 (OP)
how do you get jacked like doakes?

>>76494872
be a manlet

>>76494671 (OP)
What I notice with people with back pain is that they are always so fucking inflexible. Not just their backs, their entire body.
Im not saying flexibility is the issue but I think it plays a role in back pain.

Hi /x/ here.
We were not optimized for this planets gravity, nothing you can do about it short of buying cybernetic augmentations.
Have fun.

>>76494978
Damn, literally short king

>>76494985
Lack of flexibility and muscle atrophy is the issue.

>>76495278
imagine being so weak you actually believe gravity is too much for you

>>76494671 (OP)
Been having this issue for a while. Mid 30s
The answer is movement
>Sitting is poison even if you have a good chair. I have an Aeron and I still developed leg tightness and lower back pain
>Standing desk is better but not enough - too much time standing without movement also tenses the back muscles
>The best I felt was the days I alternated standing desk and physical activity.

This coupled with back extensions and DLs will take you out of the chronic pain. Good luck

>>76494671 (OP)
Humans were not meant for all this convenient shit. We're animals meant to do animal shit. Our progress is a blessing and a curse.

>>76494985

Eh, my whole life I have been able to bend over and touch my toes without issue, and am pretty flexible.

Years ago, though, I hurt my back lifting something with slightly off form (it was in an awkward position, but it wasn't very heavy) and hurt it. Had PT for like 3 months over it, and to this very day, my back will randomly be like "Fuck you."

Sucks too, because I am a big dude who people assume is in good shape, but when my neices and nephews want me to toss them into the air and catch them, I really need to feel how my back is before saying yes or no.

>>76494671 (OP)
You build everything except your lower back.

>>76494671 (OP)
>be human
>have to wear shoes otherwise your natural feets are fucked

>>76494696
Yeah surely because they did a very efficient PPL split and not because they did fuckass hard manual labor on some construction zone all their life overtraining specific muslces while ensuring they can feed their entire families and a guarantee fucked up back in the future. Surely it's because of lifting and you're just not a fat fuck build like a 1 by 1 lego brick piece.

>>76494671 (OP)
Just lay down

>>76495278
Holy shit you're so smart I bet you skip hygiene alltogether

one set of bent over rows with light weights will destroy my lower back for weeks

>>76494671 (OP)
>I doubt it's enough when boomers and Gen Xers have such poor backs

None of these niggers work out. Lifting was still niche in the 90s and 00s for the average person.

>>76494671 (OP)
>>76496206

Lots of walking works wonders.

im a 33yo ancient man and my knees are still perfectly fine
people around me whine constantly about knee pain though... and no they aren't all tilers
oh and i also have no stomach problems
no ibs, pocs, fibromyalgia, mets, braps, cocks and all those fake stomach and tiredness fake sickness

>>76496571
I'm a 45 year old fossil that was basically crippled at 18. Started physical therapy, got off the pain meds, and started deadlifting like my life depended on it. Most people nowadays wouldn't suspect that I am missing 3 lumbar discs and severed over half of my spinal electors. Still have minor sciatica, but at least I don't need drugs to breathe.