Do You Have my Back? *Obesity and Back Pains*

*ROUGH DRAFT* -displays how emails turn into blogpost.

Dear Julia,

Hey loooove! 

     I'm back from lunch and the fish was some T-R-A-S-H! lol harder than a rock too (some thanksgiving lol). But love, let me finish before I go back out to work. 

On the back issue... 

Look at your lower back muscles like this---well first, look at our tummy (stomach). No matter how big or small it is, it grows in one circle. The only part that we normally see as it grows into that circle is the front part of the circle. The back part of the circle grows and pushes outward on our spine.

      That's why sometimes when we stand too long our lower back hurts because of the pressure from the tummy pushing the spine and the lower back muscle being too weak to withstand all the standing. 

**(you know as we stand or even sit) our body (unbeknownst to us) is balancing itself from tipping over and that means that our lower back is constantly playing an integral part in that balancing act (like you are trying to balance a pencil on a saucer or something---the center of your finger (in this case your lower back) is doing the constant work.**

Let's get to the lower back.   

The lower back has some of your body's strongest muscles. Normally, the bigger ones are strong and can withstand stuff. However, the lower back muscle, the one just above your cheeks and under the skin, sits there. All of the other muscles are connected to that muscle by your ligaments and things. Now if you do not, or have not ever done lower back workouts then that one muscle is super weak. The other bigger back muscles are strong even without working out. They get even stronger when you work them out. The strong other back muscles (using your ligaments and stuff) pull that poor lower back muscle in any direction it suddenly wishes because it is the unworked weakling. *** The weakling back muscle "tries" to stay ready because it is always being just "pulled" every which way. It "tries" to stay on point. Guess what sneaks up on it though? 

A sudden movement, jerk, reach downward, or even a "bump" into your body and a permanent back injury could take place. 

Most of the time the poor lower muscle is just pulled out of whack and heals. However, a lot of time it is pulled all-the-way out and BAM! 

Back injury for life.

 To prevent lower back injuries you MUST work that poor little back muscle at least two times per week. Make a muscle with your arm and look at the muscle. Now stretch your arm back out. Now make the muscle again. Now stretch it back out. See how your arm muscle formed when you made a muscle and the n went back down after that?    Now this is how we work that poor little weak lower back muscle to get it stronger than never so when the big muscles or sudden movements tug and pull on it it cab just sit still and go with the flow STRONGLY).

1-stand up

2-picture your lower back

3-focus on your lower back

4-there is a muscle there

5-lean back and tighten your lower back only (just like when you make a muscle with your arm)

6-hold it tight for two seconds

7-now stand back straight up

each time you do that one time that counts as one rep

do 3 sets of 10 to 20 reps 3 times each week and watch all lower back problems go ways

you can even stretch lower back (general) injuries this same way

(the workout above if a half of a dead lift in weight-lifting terms)

hey,
when you get a chance just print this part on a sep e-mail and send it to me so I can forward it to Tah and not have to type it over. I cannot forward this one because it has our other e-mails at the bottom. You can cut n paste it love. tty in a few. Oh, I will do the e-mail about the kids when I get in at 3, kay love?