I broke out my inversion table to help with my low back issues. Felt a nice stretch last night while listening to relaxing tunes on the Ipod.
I'm curious if anyone else has used one of these tables, and if they have done any stretches/exercises to help with swimming.
Obvioulsy I know Paul Smith slept hanging on his inversion table through his childhood, which explains his gargantuan height--but looking for other input too..
Hah! Right back at you "cloud scraper!" Think I don't read other threads?
So has any one got anything to say about inversion tables good or bad?
Rich
Parents
Former Member
Don't know about inversion tables but I used to have lower back pain so bad that I couldn't crawl out of the pool after a workout or drive a standard shift car (couldn't move my foot from the accelerator to the brake fast enough to be safe in traffic). Flip turns were impossible. The origin was probably poor kicking technique in soccer.
Now, I have NO back pain at all, attributable mostly, I believe, to owning a back hyperextension station in my home gym. I routinely do back hypers, situps and shoulder rotation rehab exercises (damage also due to soccer injuries). Even though these are BORING (as some have noted before) they are just as necessary as my standard training. Since my training is my life (sorry Mr Smith the Younger), they don't really bore me. It took me about 3 years of steady training to eliminate the lower back pain issues.
As for hanging upside down, I'll leave that to bats and people who swim bizarre strokes.
-- mel
Don't know about inversion tables but I used to have lower back pain so bad that I couldn't crawl out of the pool after a workout or drive a standard shift car (couldn't move my foot from the accelerator to the brake fast enough to be safe in traffic). Flip turns were impossible. The origin was probably poor kicking technique in soccer.
Now, I have NO back pain at all, attributable mostly, I believe, to owning a back hyperextension station in my home gym. I routinely do back hypers, situps and shoulder rotation rehab exercises (damage also due to soccer injuries). Even though these are BORING (as some have noted before) they are just as necessary as my standard training. Since my training is my life (sorry Mr Smith the Younger), they don't really bore me. It took me about 3 years of steady training to eliminate the lower back pain issues.
As for hanging upside down, I'll leave that to bats and people who swim bizarre strokes.
-- mel
