Lowering RPE

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The problem with this is: there is strength level and there is what load that is tolerable that does not increase symptoms to the point of being debilitated....

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thought so, just wanted some sort of confirmation. TY!

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Almost 10 months in managing some radicular pain down the leg, believed to be from what an MRI found to be a herniated disc at L5. Things are finally...

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Not that I am an expert on the subject to the same level as the Doctors here - I have merely read through a lot of the content these guys have put out...

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This one post has so much in it that is just so well put.

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I am! Thank you. Almost completely symptom free as long as I am staying within tolerable loading and movements. No longer grunting like an old man getting...

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Almost 10 months in managing some radicular pain down the leg, believed to be from what an MRI found to be a herniated disc at L5. Things are finally...

[azeemqwerty]

Id recommend trying extra firm tofu, and frying it in a non stick pan with some olive oil - itll take on any flavours you throw in it (is i use taco seasoning)....

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Youtube, Googling the specific question (ie index match match, or conditional format X, usually brings you to a forum where someone else had the same...

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A while ago there was either an article or video (featuring Leah) and different lifting variations. I think one of them was split squats - but I was curious...

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Just outside (east) of Toronto, ON, Canada.

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UPDATE: So it has been 7 months, and the MRI I had 3 weeks ago did confirm it is a bulge/extrusion of the L5 disc, pressing on a nerve (and some narrowing...

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Thank you again for your insight and all the information Barbell Medicine gives out.

I am in the Greater Toronto Area (just outside Toronto...

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Thanks again. Had an appointment scheduled for 5 months I have been waiting for with a Physiatrist only now it has been booked over and I have to wait...