Weight Training With Back Pain
How to keep or rebuild strength by matching exercise, range, and load to your current tolerance.
Back pain does not automatically require stopping resistance training, and no lift is universally “spine safe” or forbidden. The same squat, row, or hinge can create very different demands depending on load, range, speed, fatigue, technique, equipment, and the person performing it.
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