What exercises do I do to maintain a healthy back? This is one exercise that I learnt from a Bowspring yoga practitioner in Barbados and is one of my day go-tos to manage my low back - I don't have pain with it now, or at least rarely (likely by doing something that aggravates it), due in no small part to the intervention of two brilliant and lovely people: Christy Punnett, the Bowspring instructor; and the holistic osteopath, Kaya Cole, who intervened, put me on the right tr

This is an excellent way to practise and prefect form for RDLs for beginners (or even those more advanced that are stuggling with the correct form) to ensure they are correctly hingeing at the hips during their RDLs. We're not using any weights here as this would increase the load on the spine once in the vertical position and when at initial stages of recovery we do not want any additional weight - we just want to be encouraging those muscles that support the spine to start