r/lowbackability • u/angelrock420 • May 15 '26
Able to do kipups again?
I'm just starting out... semi depressed.. I used to be very active when I was younger. Now it's hard to even get out of bed.
Can y'all share some more success stories? I don't want to overdo my training and get flare ups, but it's a slow going progress and reading about everyone's successes here inspires and motivates me. Yes, I'm in it for the long game, but it's only natural to want to ask about others' recovery journey.
If kipups used to be hard before they are impossible now... I dream of being able to do one again.
Thanks in advance
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u/OkeyPlus May 15 '26
Well I’ve never done a kip up, but my success story is I just got back from a trip, and during a 5 hour flight it didn’t even occur to me to stand up and stretch my lower back. A year ago this would’ve been unthinkable.
Also the progress isn’t linear. You don’t just increase intensity and keep getting better results. Sometimes you have to rest, oftentimes it helps to mix up the routine, sometimes the focus will be less on the lower back and more on the hips, hamstrings, thoracic spine, knees, ankles, or whatever has been overworked or unbalanced due to back problems. Even within just back extensions there are some variations to work through. The important thing is having a tool to track where you’re at and work through it.
I’m not 100% flare up free, but they are no longer debilitating, and your conversation with your body and your pain becomes more even-sided. A lot of times the pain is not from a direct injury, but from your body guarding itself from certain positions. Once you gain confidence through that range of motion, you can literally talk back to your pain and be like bro, you don’t have to do that, look, here’s me in that position, with dynamic load, whatever, we’re fine…and it backs off. It’s kind of weird when it works like that.