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Thursday the 3rd of February 2022 when you're listening to Skeptics with the Kay,

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics for the Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit

organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally.

I'm your host Mike Hall.

With me today is Marsh.

Hello and Alice.

And I've got a bad back. I've got a bad back. You got a bad back? Yeah. What have you done? I tweaked it at the gym. I don't know what tweaked it means but that kind of feels like the appropriate. I was doing a deadlift in a stupid hex cage that they have that goes, it's like a

deadlift where the bar, because obviously the bar can't go through your legs.

No. So they've got this special bar that goes around your legs and you stand in the middle of it.

Oh, I see.

Like a hula hoop.

Yeah.

And a dad left is basically where you just like hinge at the hips and pull up, right?

Yeah.

And the reason they use this bar is for safety because it means that when you're lifting a bar up in front of you,

your center of gravity is a little bit off.

So you could fall, you could pull yourself over things.

And if you do it with a hex bar, you can keep the whole weight above your central gravity the whole time and the idea is that you don't

flex your back you don't bring you back into it and I've done this plenty of times before but then just at the gym

like a week and a half ago he goes right you know ten reps on that so I went up there and did the first

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