Pasibrzuch
Level 6 Valued Member
It's been two years since a disc bulge that eliminated me from pursuing my Muay Thai goals.
During this time I focused on stiffening my core using Stuart McGill's approach. It helped only a tiny bit, so I visited a medical coach who paid attention to balancing out strenght disproportions in my limbs and stability in the frontal plane, which helped a lot. Hip-flexor work, strengthening my feet also had a place in that process. Working on running technique seems to expose some problems too and appears to be the ultimate corrective exercise.
Now I'm able to pursue my goals when it comes to lifting weights, but Muay Thai is still out of question. Kicks, be it roundhouse or teeps trigger off pain. Probably because of introducing instability and twisting in the lumbar.
Recently I found a yt channel which extrapolates the KneesOverToes/ATG approach (and marketing
) to back training.
According to this approach, if you manage to gradually strenghten the connective tissue it's supposed to bear all loads and protect discs - so quite contrary to what Stuart McGill says.
I also heard on the Tim Ferris podcasts with the guy from Christopher Sommer (Gymnastic Bodies) that he uses Jefferson Curl to rehab bulged disc.
My questions is - has anybody tried this approach and was successful? I'm far from fulfilled, but quite happy with the fact that I'm no longer in pain and don't want to risk it just for the sake of trying if another approach will make things better.
During this time I focused on stiffening my core using Stuart McGill's approach. It helped only a tiny bit, so I visited a medical coach who paid attention to balancing out strenght disproportions in my limbs and stability in the frontal plane, which helped a lot. Hip-flexor work, strengthening my feet also had a place in that process. Working on running technique seems to expose some problems too and appears to be the ultimate corrective exercise.
Now I'm able to pursue my goals when it comes to lifting weights, but Muay Thai is still out of question. Kicks, be it roundhouse or teeps trigger off pain. Probably because of introducing instability and twisting in the lumbar.
Recently I found a yt channel which extrapolates the KneesOverToes/ATG approach (and marketing
) to back training.According to this approach, if you manage to gradually strenghten the connective tissue it's supposed to bear all loads and protect discs - so quite contrary to what Stuart McGill says.
I also heard on the Tim Ferris podcasts with the guy from Christopher Sommer (Gymnastic Bodies) that he uses Jefferson Curl to rehab bulged disc.
My questions is - has anybody tried this approach and was successful? I'm far from fulfilled, but quite happy with the fact that I'm no longer in pain and don't want to risk it just for the sake of trying if another approach will make things better.
