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Episode 35: Stuart McGill explains the mechanics of back pain and the secrets to a healthy spine

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Is There a Forman Function to Sit Ups?

There's a huge variation across people with respect to how well their anatomy tolerates sit ups. Big, powerful people like football players very quickly were gassed out. When you take a thin spine, they are much more resilient to bending. If you take a thicker boned person and bend it to the same degree in the same number of cycles, the disks will dilaminate and degrade at a much faster rate.

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