Is This True: Doing Crunches Will Hurt Your Lower Back?
The Cabral Concept
Dr. Stephen Cabral
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Gone are the days where I take the information I was taught in school and in my textbooks at face value...
Granted, most of it is sound advice, but some of it needs to be tested in the real world to see if the research holds up outside of controlled clinical or lab studies...
I applied this same questioning methodology to the long held belief that working your abs will hurt your lower back...
Tune into today's #CabralConcept 734 to find out if this statement is really true: Doing crunches (and sit-ups) will hurt your lower back - Enjoy the show!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an archived Cabral Concept Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | After listening to this show, |
| 0:07.2 | check out the most up-to-date podcasts available |
| 0:09.5 | at Stephen Cabral.com slash podcasts |
| 0:12.3 | or search directly on iTunes. And now welcome to the |
| 0:15.7 | Cabral concept where board certified naturopath and integrative health |
| 0:19.6 | practitioner Dr. Stephen Cabral shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering illness |
| 0:25.6 | and given no hope for recovery. It was only after studying and traveling all over the world |
| 0:30.2 | did he discover how to combine ancient iavada healing practices with state-of-the-art |
| 0:34.6 | naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life. |
| 0:40.0 | It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight, |
| 0:42.5 | and finally feel alive again. |
| 0:44.6 | And now here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral. |
| 0:49.3 | Thank you so much for joining me here today. |
| 0:51.6 | We're about to go through the question, right? Is this true? |
| 0:57.8 | Will working your abs hurt your lower back? Because there's a lot of people out there |
| 1:02.1 | right now, a lot of people out there right now a lot of personal |
| 1:03.7 | trainers as well who have been taught that by doing any type of crunches by |
| 1:08.7 | working those abs you're going to end up hurting your lower back and And I want to explain today, and by the end of this show, |
| 1:14.9 | you will know definitively, is it true or not true, |
| 1:19.2 | and what you should be doing to work your abs and overall core in order to get better results. |
| 1:25.9 | So one of the big drawbacks, like the first thing we hear about when we say, okay, don't do |
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