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Fixing a Lifetime of Back Pain with Barbell Training

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

Fitness, Barbell, Fitness & Nutrition, Training, Health, Strength

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Starting Strength Coach Inna Koppel and her client, Michelle Glatt, discuss Michelle's training after suffering from back pain for most of her life. Inna owns Woodmere Fitness Club in Woodmere, NY. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tnoVfEbisLY WEBSITE: https://startingstrength.com FORUM: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: https://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Watch us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingstrength/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 -----------------------------

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0:00.0

I've had back pain ever since I was 13 years old.

0:09.0

I had two herniated discs in my neck and I just didn't really remember like without ever having vaccine.

0:16.0

When I had three kids, one after the other, they're 11 months apart, and then 13 months apart.

0:21.6

And by the time I had my third kid, I was in so much back pain.

0:25.6

I couldn't pick up any of my kids.

0:28.6

My little one-year-old daughter was making fun of me at the time.

0:33.6

She said, oh, mommy, my back hurts. My back hurts. I can't do this.

0:37.8

I'm like, she was too at the time.

0:39.8

She was like learning from me.

0:42.8

I can't do anything.

0:44.8

I have to like take seats and just around the house.

0:49.8

And like doing things from the house.

0:51.3

So then my sister started and my mom started at the same time as my sister in the program

0:58.0

my back pain lungs in my family. So my mom and my sister started at this new time and after a month they saw the incredible results and my mom said Michelle you have to. I know you've been suffering your whole life.

1:12.6

You need to do this right now.

1:13.2

So I started.

1:18.5

And within two weeks, I had significantly less back pain.

1:22.1

My doctor told me I remember I was 13 years old.

1:26.0

It's in whole my nieces, thinking of course I have my own nieces.

1:28.3

And I said, what about when I have my own kids? She said, well, even when you have your own kids, Michelle, you're not going to be able to hold them.

1:32.3

And I was a 13-year-old girl hearing this thinking, how in the world am I going to live without

1:37.3

holding my own children, God willing down the line?

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