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Do you think I psychosomatically caused my back to go out?

Cuz here's why I ask. I started those exercises on Monday and I super, super hated them. I wanted to shoot those exercises in the face. And don't ya know I woke up on Tuesday morning with a sore back that got worse and worse as the day wore on until around 1 pm I was immobile. IMMOBILE, I tell you. I was then so messed up that I couldn't work out. Ooohhhh ... too bad. Now, to be honest, I would have rather worked out and not had debilitating pain but ... the flip side of that now is that I will NOT be doing the exercises that I suspect messed up my back. So now I won't be doing some exercises that I may need but that I hated with a blue burning hate.

So, what's your verdict? Cuz just cuz it's psychosomatic doesn't mean it's not real. It's real pain and it's a real disorder that I may have caused with my own brain. Spooky, huh?

Anyhoo, my magician chiropractor waved his magic dust over my lower back and used his X-ray vision and voo doo and figured it out in fairly short order. He adjusted me up (3rd and 4th lunbar were locked in a death grip and the muscles surrounding were as hard as calculus ... as GRANITE ... as Wolverine's titanium skeleton ... as Superman's gluts) and I should be on the treadmill by Saturday. And, yes ... I will still be doing crunches and some arm exercises. I'm just not doing ANYTHING that might squirrel me up back-wise. Don't try to convince me or send me exercise suggestions. I WON'T DO IT!

Allow me to say that I took Pilates for quite some time with my gal pal Penny and ... I knew how to do these exercises and I STILL messed up my back. If you can, PLEASE hire a professional to work with you. It's really scary the damage you can do in about 2 minutes.

I DID MUSCLE BUILDING FOR LONGER THAN THAT. I did THAT one crappy exercise for about a minute and a second that sucks for another minute.

Just be careful. BE CAREFUL!