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Anyone starting a fitness program that includes squats and dead’s, lotta good advice in these videos. :2wave:
I'm wondering about weight training with an Umbilical Hernia.
I do weight training four days a week, pretty serious about it. A few weeks ago I started noticing that my belly button was becoming hard, I started dieting a few weeks before that, so my first thought was that I noticed it just because I've lost a lot of weight quickly.
Then over the weekend I saw someone posting about their umbilical hernia. I didn't immediately put it together, but yesterday I came to the conclusion that I have one. It doesn't hurt, but it's freaking me out a little. If it gets any worse, I will have an "outie" and it's just really weird to feel.
So anyhow, I don't want to go to the doc before March (I have my reasons for that) unless it gets worse.
I'm pretty sure that I shouldn't do squats or leg presses, and I don't do deadlifts or any sort of olympic lifts anyhow, so I'm safe there. But I wonder about heavy bench presses and other exercises.
I'm wondering about weight training with an Umbilical Hernia.
I do weight training four days a week, pretty serious about it. A few weeks ago I started noticing that my belly button was becoming hard, I started dieting a few weeks before that, so my first thought was that I noticed it just because I've lost a lot of weight quickly.
Then over the weekend I saw someone posting about their umbilical hernia. I didn't immediately put it together, but yesterday I came to the conclusion that I have one. It doesn't hurt, but it's freaking me out a little. If it gets any worse, I will have an "outie" and it's just really weird to feel.
So anyhow, I don't want to go to the doc before March (I have my reasons for that) unless it gets worse.
I'm pretty sure that I shouldn't do squats or leg presses, and I don't do deadlifts or any sort of olympic lifts anyhow, so I'm safe there. But I wonder about heavy bench presses and other exercises.
Anyone starting a fitness program that includes squats and dead’s, lotta good advice in these videos. :2wave:
I had back pain for quite a while. I thought it might be from untreated injuries from way back in wrestling/football and/or perhaps using improper squats at high weights while my bones weren't quite done forming (ie, while in HS). But I've been sleeping on a Tempurpedic since getting married and the back pain completely vanished; hasn't been back in near a decade.
I had back pain for quite a while. I thought it might be from untreated injuries from way back in wrestling/football and/or perhaps using improper squats at high weights while my bones weren't quite done forming (ie, while in HS). But I've been sleeping on a Tempurpedic since getting married and the back pain completely vanished; hasn't been back in near a decade.
It's probably because you are a male human. Seriously.
Nearly all adult males will suffer from back pain at some point in their life. Mine is on and off, often for no reason that I can identify. I think I was mid to late 20s before I started having it.
I do believe that our sleeping positions and beds may be often the issue, but then again, maybe not. About three years ago I thought my bed was causing me back pain, then it magically went away, without changing my mattress, so maybe not. Since then I have had two more periods of back pain, one of them was very severe (to the point I was screaming when I moved), they both went away without a new bed. Who the heck knows.
Oh, I understand.
We actually didn't even get the bed specifically for back pain. We'd just sat around on a friend's mattress, had a bunch of wedding gifts, etc, and figured it'd be the big splurge. Just lucked out that it turned out to be the mattress that was my problem. I'd been worried that it would become permanent.
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I think that the mattress companies make the mattress to soft today. We bought a new mattress last year it is the most miserable mattress in forty plus years of marriage. It’s a good foot thick, you get into it and if you wanna turn,lottsa luck .It’s like hour cardio for this ole man to get outta bed.
Oh, no.
We got either the Firm or Normal model from the Tempurpedic basic bed selection. Expensive, but nothing like their insane top-line prices. It's firm when you lie down, and maybe it sinks depending on weight to about .5-1.5 inches, max. Much more supporting than the bed in the guest room (which I often switch to between 4am-7am because reasons).