Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host, Brian Call. And on today's podcast, we're

going to talk a little bit about stretching. We're going to do a little Q&A is what we're

going to do. I just published a podcast yesterday on stretching David Goggins, what if where

he goes into his personal experience on how jacked up his body had become from never stretching

or massaging or doing any soft tissue work. And it sparked a lot of questions. Got a lot

of people who went to the YouTube version of the podcast and those people left questions

in the comments section. So Brent is going to read Gritty Broman. It's going to read a few

of those. And we'll just talk about him right now. So what you got for me, Brent? Two

questions. One's very specific and the one's a little more generic. The very specific one

is by BJ Hamola. What stretches do you do to help your slipped disk? I have a bulging

disk in my low back for about a year now and I've been trying all sorts of things.

All right. That's a great question. I actually have covered this a couple of times on various

shows at random times. I should just do an episode about that, which I think I will because

I just did one about achy knees. I'll do a show fully dedicated to what I did for my low

back. But for now, I'll just kind of high level drop it for you. I started having back pain.

I was like, I don't know, 33 something like that. And I was playing basketball like four

days a week. I was playing some pickup games and then I played in the Portland basketball

league when I had two games a week in the league. But weren't you also biking to work every

day? I was biking to and from work every day. I was very active. I did some triathlons,

but I did not ever lift weights at all. And I sat in a desk for hours on end. Like sometimes

12 hour days, eight hour days. And then I go work out. But the sitting I think is what really,

really hurt my back over time. And maybe the biking as well, like hunched over and writing

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