The World's Greatest Weight Belt!.mp4

http://www.chekinstitute.com for product and course information or purchase: http://www.chekconnect.com for free information and to find a CHEK Practitioner near you. In "The World's Greatest Weight Belt!", Paul Chek, Holistic Health Practitioner shares simple visuals and explanations to explain how the human spine is stabilized and how stability is the foundation of healthy, pain free movement. Paul shares a simple technique he developed that is far safer and more effective than commonly used weight belts and back corsets, and,...ITS FREE! This short video lesson may be just what you need to resolve your back pain. For exercise and health care professionals or competitive athletes, this video is a free sample of the many gems of knowledge available to you in Paul Chek's many highly functional and practical education programs.
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Education

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• Back Pain
• Movement
• Spine
• Education
• Weight Lifting
• Back Corsets
• Weight Belts
• Exercise
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[hkweasel]

If a weightbelt does not increase the stability of the spine, what positive effect does it have on lifting heavier weights? From what I understand, all of the world records for squats/deadlifts have been set with lifters using belts and pushing out with their "core" muscles rather than using no belt and drawing drawing those muscles in.

[BabySpinach13]

@hkweasel Belts create Hoop Tension..

[PaulChekLive]

Dear @BabySpinach13,

Belts do create hoop tension, yet, as I showed in my video clip, "they don't create hoop tension through the thoracolumbar fascia. Therefore, they create compression, but can not create SEGMENTAL STABILITY. That can only be created through intrinsic stabilizers or, in the case I'm discussing here, "inner unit muscle action". I hope that helps. If you watch the video again and look carefully ad the diagram with the weight belt wrapped around the torso, you will see.

Paul

[PaulChekLive]

Dear @hkweasel,

Weight belts increase "proprioceptive sense". Whenever we add a layer of compression topically, we increase our sense of location within that surface. When you wear a wool sweater on your bare skin, you are likely to be "more aware of where you are withing that sweater. That's the main benefit of a weight belt to a lifter; it informs them of position within the sphere of tension created by the belt. The greatest lifting coaches today aren't using belts any longer.

Paul

[shuls89]

Paul, Let me first say I have the utmost respect for you, and your knowledge. Needless to say you are a badass. Are you saying that under weighted loads i.e. squats/over head presses you think that the tva should be pulled in??

[PaulChekLive]

Dear @shuls89.

Please view my next clip in the Diamond Mind series titled "Abs In or Abs Out?", which addresses your query directly.

Much chi,

Paul

[PaulChekLive]

Dear @shuls89,

If you watched the video and looked at the anatomy, it's got nothing to do with "what Paul Chek says" and everything to do with "how the anatomy works". Having worked for numerous professional sports teams with chronic, acute and seemingly intractable back, neck and musculoskeletal pain at large, and getting excellent results, I'd say my approach must work! It's all supported by anatomy, and isn't dependent upon my "personal opinion"

Much chi,

Paul Chek

[BabySpinach13]

@PaulChekLive Watched the video again and I was able to digest a few more details from the diagram that I missed yesterday. I should watch these when I'm a bit more alert! :) You basically said what I was trying to say in your reply to hkweasel, which I mistook for hoop tension.

[Stimpitty]

love you Paul! I have so much catching up to do... I hope to make my way thru your institute in the near future. I am finishing up here at the University and looking to find my niche somewhere helping others as you do. As always thanks for the videos.

[dctrex]

Nice tip!

[hkweasel]

@hkweasel Looked up your article and saw that you do address this with respect to "hoop tension", thanks. Based on that, I find the statement in the video discounting a relationship between spinal stability and weight belts confusing.

I personally try to limit my use of a belt to loads when it's absolutely necessary, and generally prefer to improve my "core" strength with accessory movements rather than trying to go belt-less all the time.