bluealtered
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You are right Steve Donlon, weight plays a large part of living with pain. When i was logging i weighed right at 200lbs, you see you must keep your energy up to do that job so i ate three to five times a day and worked it off everyday as well because i walked up and down mountains all day. Now I'm seventy one and doing good to get in two miles walking in town four days a week, and now i weigh 160lbs, i eat maybe twice a day.
One more thing that is very important and we touched on it yesterday, you must relearn to control your core/deep stabilizer back mussels. It took a while for me to do it but after i did my pain during the day dropped enough that i could stay at the range a couple of hours each visit instead of maybe just one hour.
The whole key to this for me was simply laying on the floor and relearning to work the mussels in my abdomen and stomach, (very very gently) you can learn to exercise each of these mussels after you get to re-know them. You want pull them in, (gently) not push them out, this may be very hard to do at first but it does get easier as you practice it for a while. I do this every day and it works for me, it only takes a few minutes each morning and makes a difference in the amount of pain i deal with each day.
Take your time with relearning your body, you have the rest of your life to see what works for you because the pains going to be there, but as i have learned after many years of this, you can make it less pain rather than more pain if you try. You will learn over time that you can live with it and still have a life, it's all up to you.
One more thing that is very important and we touched on it yesterday, you must relearn to control your core/deep stabilizer back mussels. It took a while for me to do it but after i did my pain during the day dropped enough that i could stay at the range a couple of hours each visit instead of maybe just one hour.
The whole key to this for me was simply laying on the floor and relearning to work the mussels in my abdomen and stomach, (very very gently) you can learn to exercise each of these mussels after you get to re-know them. You want pull them in, (gently) not push them out, this may be very hard to do at first but it does get easier as you practice it for a while. I do this every day and it works for me, it only takes a few minutes each morning and makes a difference in the amount of pain i deal with each day.
Take your time with relearning your body, you have the rest of your life to see what works for you because the pains going to be there, but as i have learned after many years of this, you can make it less pain rather than more pain if you try. You will learn over time that you can live with it and still have a life, it's all up to you.
