I am going to be closing the SKOOL group down for now. I have too many plates spinning at the moment and can't give it the attention it needs to grow. I hope this is something I will come back to in the future to provide free valuable information and give back. In the mean time you can follow my FREE FB GROUP where I will continue to post https://www.facebook.com/share/g/rCQXYErh3gdSUWrh/

One of the biggest causes of pain for people is the repetitive nature of their work. I am going to make you a pretty solid promise here. If you start taking as little as 5 minutes each day after work to move your body in the opposite ways that you spend at work you will significantly reduce the aches and pains. It's a simple principle that can be applied for any job, you just have to take a minute to think about what positions you are in all day and what muscles are constantly getting worked. This will help you target the right area. 2 Examples Desk worker who is sitting all day has their hips bent to 90 degrees all day. Corrective work - 5 minutes in the evening of opening their hips up. Someone who works hard all day doing manual labor overworking their lower back muscles. Corrective work - relax and stretch out the low back that has gotten tight and sore from repetitive lifts. I know sometimes this is hard to conceptualize so drop into the comments specific jobs or areas of pain for me and I will address them all in their own posts and tag you!

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One of the best things I have found for managing upper back and shoulder pain is a steel club. Does anyone else have experience or interest in using a steel club?

It's inevitable even if we do regular maintenance and focus on quality movement, sometimes it just happens! That's what happened to me a little over a week ago now, I was traveling a lot and not in the gym or keeping up with my routine. I was excited to get back in the gym and get back to it, and I came in a little too hot. Lesson #1 - if you have been out of the gym for more than 2-3 weeks you need a reintroductory period to avoid injuries and prep your body. I knew exactly what I had done (because of my history) so here's what I noticed and what I did. I hope you can grab some value out of it if you are facing similar problems. After a heavy squat day my right side glute seemed to tighten up, and same with my left side adductors. I had the next day planned as a rest day so that worked out well and I stretched and dug a ball in a bit. But then I figured I would be good to go the following day and hit some sumo deadlifts amoung other stuff but I think thats the one that did me in. After that my glute and adductur tension increased and some low back pain showed up. This is a pretty common pattern for me so I spent the next couple days getting lots of stretching, rolling and walking in and when I could I hit the sauna and stretched out in there too. One of the keys I find for back pain is to keep moving if at all possible. The last thing you want to do is be stuck sitting and laying around. Lots of walking and breaking up my work day more than regular I think made a huge difference. PS if you are in pain I would love to hear about it. Drop a post and tell me about it and lets trouble shoot it together.