If we are taught to never lift with our backs, why are there popular exercises like Romanian deadlifts and good mornings which has you specifically lifting with your back?
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Physio here. There’s some good answers in here about muscle recruitment, practicing proper technique and bracing. One thing that no one’s touched upon that we’re taught in uni is government legislation.
So back in the day they had a simplified understanding of biomechanics and muscle injuries. So their best guess was that you need a proper technique and you’ll be fine. So they LEGISLATED it into law. All companies have to provide proper occupational health and safety training for their employees. Rather than coming up with your own, you use the stock standard one the government gave you… Well damn.
How do you change legislation? What do you replace it with? What do you do when the training that was mandated has been shown to be ineffective?
And here we are today, teaching old and outdated things because modernizing it is too hard.
As for back injuries, what I’ll say is, they’re incredibly complicated and multifaceted. You can’t simply break em down to “not having a perfect lifting technique”
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