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What's the best forms of exercise to increase bone density?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Sep 6 7:33pm | Replies (61)Comment receiving replies
@awfultruth thank you so much for the tip! I looked up McGill’s big three and realized the side plank and bird-dog are in my routine! The 10 second isometric practices are great which is missing in my routine but I’ll definitely adopt it!
Do you find the first pose “curl up” challenging? I could barely hold 5 seconds for some reason. Maybe I didn’t do it quite right
Thanks a lot!
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@mayblin Well I've been doing the McGill "no curl curl up" for 9 or 10 years maybe and I don't remember if it was hard to hold. It's easy now. Side planks were always the hardest and least pleasant for me. I do remember that my core was basically asleep when I started doing these kind of movements. I saw a couple of "experts" before I just started following McGill's book. They would tell me to do this or that movement using this or that muscle and I would be like "how?". I wouldn't have a sense of how I could move or use those muscles.
BTW, I don't usually hold for 10 seconds. McGill himself sometimes says 5-7 seconds. Not sure what his latest opinion is but I know that he does not think longer holds are necessary or even a good idea.