• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I did planking for about a thousand years (or so it felt) and it didn’t really help at all. What did help massively was dumbbell swings! In just a couple of days my back pain was like 90% gone, totally gone today.

    I’m quite tall, so YMMV.

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        2 days ago

        Make soft careful swings to 90° (like from bottom and up til it’s in front of you, not high up), just a couple the first day.

        I use a 16 kilo one, I only have that one, it’s heavy as fuck but very effective for me.

        Good luck, and please do tell how it went!