How to Fix Back Pain with HIT Strength Therapy and MedX

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Bernd Sigl

What if you could help more clients beat back pain effectively and significantly improve their quality of life even throughout old age?

Bernd Sigl is the Head of Therapy at the ATOS Kliniken in Munich and is an expert focusing on using high-intensity training principles to help clients recover from back pain, as well as helping them improve their quality of life and even athletic performance.

We go deep into the root causes of most back pain, how to train safely as you get older, how to breathe properly during exercise sessions, and how being fit using proper HIT strength training helped him walk off getting hit by a bus in London and get on a flight home the next day (!).

If you want to know how an expert with over 38,000 consultations approaches helping clients resolve their back-related issues effectively and help grow your strength training business, tune in to this one!

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Show Notes

02:07 – What lead Bernd to specialize in back strength therapy
04:09 – How often does Bernd strength train?
05:09 – Bernd’s time with Arthur Jones
07:34 – When it clicked: from high-volume training to lower-volume
09:52 – Strength training lessons learned after 38,000 clients
16:09 – The deconditioning cycle
17:39 – What exercises are helpful for athletic performance?
22:18 – Screening and assessing clients
25:13 – Back pain is a widespread problem
26:48 – Studies on strength therapy improving back pain
31:12 – Bernd’s strength therapy process for clients
33:29 – On medical-grade machines and getting good results
35:49 – MedX Lumbar/Lower Back Back VS Roman Chair
38:59 – Long-term benefits of using Bernd’s protocol with the MedX Medical Lower Back
42:05 – What the exercise unlocks (and how to approach it)
44:37 – Movement speed
46:22 – On CrossFit and Group Workouts
48:07 – Bernd’s advice for strength training practitioners (especially as you age)
50:31 – Comparing the MedX Medical Lumbar VS the regular MedX Lumbar machine
51:27 – How Bernd takes a client through the 18 sessions on the machine
54:04 – Factors that cause back pain
56:46 – Bernd Sigl’s controversial strength training test
58:41 – When Bernd got hit by a bus in London while visiting Kieser Training (and a really good argument for strength training properly)
1:01:36 – On Werner Kieser
1:02:45 – On balancing cardio and strength training
1:04:39 – How to breathe while doing cardio
1:09:04 – Should you stop doing certain physical activities as you get older?
1:10:49 – How much does Bernd work as an older strength trainer?
1:11:57 – Bernd’s workshops and educational services