 Next question is from one corner our spinal flexion exercises like crunches dangerous for your back I hate I in a noise this shit out of me when I hear people especially fitness professionals and even worse Doctors and specialists who say things like this exercise is dangerous Don't do it right and the latest one that annoys a shadow me is this whole like don't ever do exercises that flex the spine Huh, yeah does your spine flex and extend it does it actually does guess what happens if you never strengthen those movements You'll lose them. Yeah, then you end up in a situation where you're more vulnerable You accidentally flex your spine because you're and living your life and you end up injuring yourself I really wish that they would say that you know for like when they gave that advice It would be like, you know for liability reasons I have to tell you this and then they went into explain like in more depth because I know that's the reason Why this is like you I don't think a doc Oh, at least I hope a doctor isn't is not that stupid that there's not benefits and strengthening that movement Right like even if you even if you just went into basic medicine like you and you know enough about the body They know that that strengthening that would be of value. Yeah, the problem is with the spine Here's the issue with the spine right like all joints now the spine is made up of many many many moving parts and joints and the problem is when you Allow it to move to its end range of motion meaning the joint can no longer Flex it can no longer flex with and what's stopping it is its own the joint itself And then you add load and then what's supporting the load isn't your muscle But rather the end range motion of the joint now you cause problems because now what's holding that weight or whatever are your discs Is the spine itself? Yeah, but an exercise like a crunch on the floor. It's like there's very very There's nothing going on there, that's that's bad if you're doing them properly look Stupidest one I've heard because I've definitely heard dead lifts and I've actually gotten my brother-in-law was like Oh, my doctor told no, I've heard this where they say every exercise for your core needs to be a neutral spine Because that's what you need to struggle you've heard that so I have heard that for which is insane We move robotically I mean I understand like a full setup maybe for somebody who has just came out of like back surgery or some issue and they're There's exceptions, of course right like a few spine you gotta be careful with how you move right But I mean even that person though a crunch I mean your your your back is supported by the ground and when you crunch you're only rolling the spine up a tiny bit So how do you get up off the ground how do you get up out of bed? Any any movement that you can do with full control full stability good strength good mobility is safe Any movement that is outside of that is dangerous and it doesn't matter what the movement in does it doesn't matter if we're comparing a dumbbell curl To a Olympic clean to very different exercises in terms of technique if the dumbbell curl cannot be done With control stability strength and proper mobility. It's dangerous even though. It's a very simple exercise But yeah, you definitely don't want in with any movement You don't want you don't want your joints to support the movement What I mean by that is to give you an easier example Because the spine is maybe a little more difficult if you look at my elbow right at some point My elbow can't extend anymore and that's not because my muscles won't allow my bicep would allow more extension But it's the actual elbow joint itself. This is it that's as far as my elbow goes now If I held a heavy weight in this position and I allowed my elbow to hold it rather than tensing my bicep and Holding it with my muscle relaxing. Yeah, so my joint is holding it That's gonna cause joint damage if you do that with your spine the same thing So even rounding your back is okay so long as it's not the spine itself that's supporting you It's the muscles around and you're not in your have muscles. That's right. That's exactly why we have