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Or a durian.

Do you have any suggestions for where he might get started on the topic? I think that’s what he’s looking for.

Arbeit macht frei. Again.

Well, range of motion and stretch aren’t really valid criticisms for plank IMO. It’s intended to train your core to resist extension forces and train proper neutral posture under load in your lower back. Cable crunch doesn’t do that, and in the context of lower back pain, crunches could be detrimental. With the plank, there is progressive overload, if you do more than one set and you progress the exercise. This might look like an appeal to authority, but the trainers and physiotherapists I learned from state that.

You’re free to believe it’s a shit exercise, but I have personally benefited from it, and so have my clients.

What would you recommend instead?

Edit: At the earlier stages it’s a strength exercise, but later, as your capacity improves, it becomes an endurance exercise. Again, the main purpose is to teach the body to resist forces that might cause you to hyperextend your lower back. Planks help prevent an anterior-posterior chain imbalance.

I don’t know if you’re kidding or not, but the point of the plank is to strengthen your abdominal muscles’ ability to resist motion and hyperextension of the back, not to generate it. But if you have any specific concerns about the exercise, I’d be happy to hear them and pass them along to my physio. Then I can come back and tell you what they said.

Do you have any photos from inside?

Easy for them to look at us as if we’re just things that can be bought and sold. Many of us play the part. We need to stop cooperating with them.

“Today you, tomorrow me.”

Scumbags taking advantage of community spirit.

Yes, it’s encrypted. Wouldn’t be much of a point if it was just plaintext.

Scorchio

Not saying you’re wrong, but sometimes when you lose someone important, you compartmentalize it so hard you’re basically denying to yourself that it happened. The ugly crying and breakdowns sometimes happen later, when it really sinks in.

Hoping for the best with your little guy.