As I discussed in one of my earlier blog posts, I was involved in pretty serious car accident as a teenager.  A tire blew out and our vehicle rolled into the ditch, throwing me out of the window and about 20 feet through the air!  I ended up fracturing 3 lumbar vertebrae (spinal compression fractures) and was confined to several days of bed rest in the hospital. After that I was told to never lift heavy weights again, which didn’t make sense to me because it was strength training that had protected me from a more serious injury! So I set out to learn as much as I could about strength training and post-injury fitness, and in the process I have trained my lower back and core to be one of my strongest muscle groups. Now, I understand that for most people suffering from lower back pain and/or tension it may not be [...]