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🗓️ 26 July 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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What are some of the main causes of back pain and why do so many people encounter sore backs? In this episode of The Food For Fitness Podcast, Scott is joined by Dr. Stuart McGill - a world-leading authority on spine biomechanics at is based at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Stuart’s advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts and elite athletes and teams from around the world. He explains how we often injure our backs, some of the leading causes of back pain (both in and out of the gym), exercises that can improve back strength and ones you might want to avoid, why you can’t be a good golfer and powerlifter at the same time, why high repetition Olympic lifting is a bad idea, his thoughts on foam rolling and whether you really need to be doing a deep squat.
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0:27.6 | Welcome to episode 60 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to by foodfor Fitness.com. |
0:40.4 | UK. |
0:41.3 | I'm your host, Scott Bapti, and this week I have another world leading expert on my show. |
0:47.3 | My guest is Dr. Stuart McGill, who is an authority on spine biomechanics who's based at the University of Waterloo in Canada. |
0:56.6 | Now, Stuart's advice is sought by governments, multinational corporations, legal experts, and elite |
1:02.1 | athletes and teams all around the world. He is one of the premier authorities on back health, |
1:09.3 | how to have us pain-free and strong back. So in this episode, |
1:12.8 | we'll be looking at some of the things we do that causes injury to our backs, some of the |
1:17.6 | leading causes of back pain both in and out of the gym, exercises that can improve the health |
1:24.1 | and strength of your back, ones that you might want to avoid. Why he can't be a good |
1:27.9 | golfer and power lifter at the same time. Why high rep Olympic lifting is probably not a good |
1:33.6 | idea and the physiology that occurs that makes it not the best. And his thoughts on foam rolling |
1:40.1 | and whether it's effective or not and whether you really need to be doing a deep squat. |
1:46.1 | And lots more. |
1:47.0 | We're covering pretty much everything I could think about about back health in this episode. |
1:50.9 | It's extremely informative and it'll certainly make a difference to the things that you do in the gym |
1:56.0 | and to your active recovery and rehab if you do any. |
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