If exercising means you strain muscles to grow them, why does straining your back hurt it instead of making it stronger?
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Its not the muscles that are damaged. Its the cartilage between the vertebrea (which is supposed to be spongey like the heel of an athletic shoe but once you blow out the rubber tube, its gone) and the nerves that branch out from the spine through those disks.
muscles adapt easier, even as we age, but when we get older all the other stuff doesn’t as much. tendons and connective tissue are much slower to respond and to heal.
the spine, as a fulcrum, takes on hundreds of pounds more effort to do something than the rest of you, that’s why they say lift from the knees not the back.
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