• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Weight Training with Low Back Pain

Donc

DP Veteran
Joined
Sep 16, 2007
Messages
9,796
Reaction score
2,590
Location
out yonder
Gender
Male
Political Leaning
Slightly Liberal


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.
 
People who exercise eventually die.....I do just enough to keep from being labeled "sedentary".
 
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 wouldn’t be doing any abb work other than planks with an Umbilical hernia. It shouldn’t hurt to do upper body workouts though. If you breathe well and suck in your stomach with each work rep. I would do warm up reps with light weights on a machine and use dumbbells for the work set.: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 don't have advice to give beyond: be extremely careful.

If it is a true umbilical hernia, it means your stomach muscles do not completely join in at least one area, and that causes your intestines or other issues to bulge through the weak spot. If you stress the weak spot, you could end up with a full-blown hernia that will permanently hamper your weight training and possibly later mobility. Oh, and possibly tremendous pain. Depending on positioning and severity, a herniated intestine that cannot be pushed back through the stomach wall (by a physician!!!!) can get inadequate blood supply, die, and then you can get internal gangrene, which is just as bad as you might expect. There are also potential issues with obstructed intestines.

Basically, you don't want that thing fully rupturing so if you really must put off medical treatment, be as careful as possible with regard to any strain on abdominal muscles. If anything, I'd avoid free weights and only use machines, lifting at speeds that are slow and completely controlled. (Since a lapse of technique with free weight can easily force you to rely on core muscles like the abdominal ones, depending on what you're doing).
 


Anyone starting a fitness program that includes squats and dead’s, lotta good advice in these videos. :2wave:


oI have constant low back pain, my advise would be to build up your core before doing other weight training. Your core supports you back too, and if it is strong it takes much stress off it, making other workouts a breeze.
 
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.

When I was younger I used to pretty heavy squats and dead’s. When I got down in my back these inversion boots helped me considerably. Now that I am an ole-man I use a trap bar for my dead’s and a Dave Draper top squat for my squats. Works for me. :2wave:

https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Fitnes...id=1482867433&sr=1-4&keywords=inversion+boots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azWwBWx2mQE
 
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.
 
Last edited:
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.

\
 
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.

\

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.:(
 
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).
 
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).

This is the most miserable mattress in the world...the wife picked it out SOoo, its gotta be expensive.She could lean against a wall and catch some ZZZeess,myself its catch as catch can.:(
 


Dr. Morris wraps up his talk on training with back pain with a discussion on the shortfalls of current conventional pain science and back pain rehabilitation.:2wave:
 
Back
Top Bottom