Metaphorically speaking, it is like saying ‘’Let’s play basketball!’’. This kind of approach is desirable with children, while adults may experience problems, especially if the adult has not exercised for months and gets invited by friends to play basketball or a football game. His whole body will ache the next day; injuries may also occur.
This is the case when we are forced to exercise, such as a PE lesson or rehabilitation.
The most dangerous enemies in all of the above mentioned forms of exercises are: ignorance, indolence and overvaluing your own abilities.
The spine is especially vulnerable during puberty when it is rapidly growing and the muscles cannot follow the rapid development of the bones. It is necessary to be especially careful when it comes to physical burdening.
Whatever the activity may be, tying laces, vacuuming, lifting a sack, weight lifting, the spine must be STRAIGHT.
‘’Straight’’ does not mean it should be as straight as an arrow, but rather, it should keep the natural curvatures when lifting, i.e. to bend from the hips. In such a position, mutual pressure of the vertebrae is equally settled along the entire disc.
If you bend your spine like a croissant, the disc is stretched from one side which opens a possibility that the nucleus prolapses the annulus fibrosis.
