Bite your tongue!!!
1 Like
I confess that I was assaulted at the gym today⊠by a barbell⊠that I push pressed into my chinâŠ
Ouch 
2 Likes
I guess hitting myself on the chin with a bar wasnât so bad after allâŠ
2 Likes
Damn! That hurts just looking at it. 
Those adjustments have caused many injuries including strokes.
1 Like
I use one when my back goes out (I have a small case of scoliosis). I go when I hurt then stop going as I strengthen things up again.
Funny enough, outside of the original time I went to the chiropractor as a teen, the other two times my back went out was when I wasnât lifting as much I should have been.
They work, for some marginal cases. I have gone to a few that wanted me to sign a treatment contract for x number of sessions. I walked out the door on those.
1 Like
Get her the coach. Well, not your coach, thatâs a bad idea, maybe one he recommends.
Right now you are the guy standing between her and whatever she thinks is going to happen with having a coach. You can not be that guy for probably less than ÂŁ120, sad reality is relationships have tax and this is one of those taxes. A cheap one in the scheme of things.
Do what you can to help her succeed, if she fails she fails*. You might feel itâs a waste of cash but I suggest that could be less about weight loss/health than she is letting on and this could be a nice circuit breaker on this discussion.
*If you are lucky you wonât be accused of undermining her or faking support but really wanting her to fail because you get a kick out of burning money lol
3 Likes
@carlbm I agree with @strongmangoals here. Get her a coach and let her go through the process. My wife sounds similar you yours and I have lost count of the number of different gym memberships, exercise classes, online programs, etc. etc. that she has taken over the years. The truth is she just doesnât really like the training and so doesnât see results. The lucky thing is she is naturally slim so looks bloody great even if she doesnât do much at all. I stopped trying to give her advice years ago and just support what ever she chooses.
1 Like
My experience is advice continues to come in the other direction 
2 Likes
Chiros over here are such great, expensive scam artists Iâm considering whether they justify the existence of qigong masters as an alternative since theyâre much cheaper.
Agreed with the whole post just wanted to add something here: As far as science goes this is bullcrap anyway. You CAN NOT put vertebraes âback in placeâ (and if they are out of place as a chiro or MT practioner would tell you, you would be in the ER and not his office). Same as your fucking SI joint being âblockedâ or whatever (that joint has a normal range of motion of 0-3°).
The effects of most of these techniques are based on a simple (yet unspecific!!!) neuromodulation. These techniques arenât dangerous at all, the effect however is very short lived and the therapist creates a dependancy, which youâve captured already.
Iâm not saying that there is no place for manual therapy or in general passive treatments ever. It can be an introduction that eases the patient into active treatments (get them stronger/ manage stress/ part of the educational progress etc.) however itâs important to know why youâre doing what youâre doing and to stop bullshitting people!
Telling people they are broken and tight and whatnot actively produces pain in them (there is a pretty thorough science behind that, that I donât feel the need to lay out here).
A lot of those practioners should just go with the time, read up on current, evidence based treatments, scources and the like and stop looking at the human body like theyâre an engineer fixing a machine.
So yeah, youâve hit a topic that Iâm in the process of gathering a huge pile of info about and as it turns out, have gotten pretty passionate with, haha.
1 Like
Well to be thorough: Cervical spine manipulations have a low risk of causing a stroke.
1 Like
On a positive note, at least I got to see what the bone under my finger nail looks like.
2 Likes
Yeah we agreed to her using my coach. But its on a condition. Effort.
We shall see what happens.
1 Like
Since when was a HIT influencer a thing?
Mike Mentzer ⊠Dorian Yates by proxy
1 Like
I just checked my pedometer and realize that I forgot to turn it on which meant my preworkout steps werenât logged. I confess itâs causing me a lot of anxiety
I joined a franchise gym this weekend (Crunch Fitness) - horrible name, but itâs the first chain gym I have ever seen with 10 squat cages/deadlift platforms with bumper plates at each of their locations. They also have dumbbells up to 125 (respectable) and an old school style nautilus pull-over machine. Today will be my first day there and in order to buck âinternational chest dayâ I am planning a tough pull workout.
3 Likes
My e-friend, let me tell you about the joys of having an in-house chiroprac⊠I mean, foam roller.
My S/O is a HCP and her practice is currently being taken over by a chiro (read: business man). She becomes borderline unhinged when he tries to draw equivalencies between the behind-the-scenes of what they do.
I try to keep it light for her so I take guesses at what his medical charting entails âSaw patient X today, gave him a big hug and cracked his back. Saw patient Y today and gave her a big hug, cracked her backâ.
3 Likes