@@tao8150 i disagree. I am a retired UPS driver. Many of my coworkers including myself has successfully done it. We have to or injury will occur. I am living proof it can be done. It is a choice to lift incorrectly or correctly everytime. I disagree with you.
Craig is right. I work two jobs 14 hrs a day. I load baggage at the airport for one & handle interline for the other loading up to 800 (70lb+) bags a day between both. My back & shoulders are in great shape because I lift with my legs and I never load in a rush (even if my higher ups get mad). Small changes make HUGE differences
Honestly it’s not.. A horizontal back angle in a squat or a deadlift is the safest technique. This doll makes it look as though keeping your back straight is a mere result of standing up completely straight, so that if you lean forward at all you’re back will collapse forward. This isn’t true at all, and actually contributes to people injuring themselves. The back is largely isometric, meaning it’s function is to stiffen and provide support for the spine and the rest of our musculature. We can lift with the back, but only light weights. Once the weight gets heavy, the back’s only job is to be a stiff frame which keeps the spine straight where it’s totally safe, and allows power to be efficiently transferred from the hips up through the shoulders and the arms. Our body’s are not hydraulic cylinders that press directly up and down; we have a series of levers that operate together. And the way we work is that when we bend down to pick something up, our back moves back and our shoulders come forward to keep the centre of gravity in the middle of our body so we can keep balance. So when you try to stand perfectly straight while lifting, what you’re actually doing is creating a massive imbalance towards the front which needs managing, and both your knees and your back will do all the work. And not in a way your body is designed to function, in a way you’re forcing it to function because of a misplaced fear about your back. If you keep your back straight while you lift, it’s safe. People hurt themselves when they allow their back to curl down as they lift something very heavy. People hurt themselves with a bent spine, not a horizontal spine. When I said keep your back straight, I don’t mean vertically; I mean straight like a board. You can bend over as much as you need to. 100% safe.
@@justairyx Then continue having a bad back because of your ignorance and refusal to get educated. The model is not helpful, and is a big cause of people getting hurt in the workplace. Flat sticks to not correctly represent the human body or the loads we have to carry.
I actually like the way that it looks like he's actually over stretching his back while lifting that. That model is not only accurate but it's also accurate. People are getting so much smarter these days
Except the straight back posture is actually not that good either. One reason : it makes your knees hold all the weight, which can lead to severe knees injuries (knees are sh*t). Not saying you should be looking like a hissing cat while lifting, but that this video shares knowledge that comes from sensitizing campaigns that are not scientifically documented. Actually, a secure lifting movement is much more complexe to achieve.
Yes, this is a good way to learn. I follow it whenever I have to lift something heavy. I saw this video for the third time 2 months ago. I am following it now. I have tried it two-three times. It is good.
This was a really good depiction. If they showed this instead of those stupidly 4-5 hour long videos in those factory places people would understand a lot better
It may work as a good demo for factory workers. But I don’t think it works good for people in a weight room or other athletes for that matter. They will be scared to pick things up or actually use their muscles and instead will want to rely solely on mechanics and not lifting any weight.
@@michaelsofinewhat do you mean? They'll bring cranes or something? Lifting weight (though, doing so properly) is a way to train your muscles, that is
We should have these in public areas so people will stop fucking their backs, and advising on stairs to only take stairs up and not down if it can be avoided. Would save us lots of healthcare bucks.
@@oleksandrpankiv639in the workplace, lifting technique education has been proven useless. Much better to offer mechanical aids, reduce the loads, etc. Oh, and this video doesn’t show the safest way to lift stuff, which is deadlift technique. Exercise scientist and masters in WH&S (ergonomics) here.
@@Dicka899really the problem is not the lifting technique so much. The big mistake is to try to lift a load that you are unfit to lift. More gym and less “lifting education” because it is useless unless you learn to deadlift and train the exercise regularly.
And may I add, strengthen your back with exercise. Because lifting will not always be this perfect, and you've gotta be prepared to lift in awkward positions! Strength will prepare you to handle those better. Deadlift!
@@TheGingaWeirdo It’s amazing how young people todsy can still be delusional enough to think that they can do a trade like roofing for years and not eventually end up with horrific back problems. Wake up dude
My boss has been a concreter for over thirty years, he’s 66 now and hasn’t had a back problem ever in arguably one of the most physically demanding jobs. He taught me to differentiate between using my back to lift heavy items or using my knees, to strengthen both muscle groups. If you only use your knees to lift, you’ll tire your quads and your lower back will kick in, which is where the bad posture and damage to your spine comes in. Romanian deadlifting a heavy item will strengthen and save your back from damage. Take care of yourself.
Exactly, don't forget your back got lot of muscles too, and never using your back will mean that it will be weaker when you will need it. Trust your back, but don't over stress it
I always heard "lift with your legs, not your back" and always struggled with it. I didn't realize the item had to be closer to me to do it. Thanks for this demonstration.
Okay this just crawls all over me. We were taught every year repeatedly how to properly lift, sit, study, run, type... ergonomics were _almost_ everything. I went to public school. What the hell happened with everyone else? Did I pay extra attention or was I just lucky enough to go to a school that taught shit? Seriously, what happened? Someone owes the rest of you an explanation or at the very least an apology so I'll so it. I'm really sorry about this. You should've known. It was wrong of the people who told you to do this to not show you how to do it. You deserved better.
@@ipickedsomethingthat’s what you got taught in school we got taught how to spell words wrong 😑 I kid you not then we had a substitute come in and told us that we were all spelling like 10 words wrong
Actually raising like the second one looks ouch but actually would strenghten your spine and back muscles for you to be able to lift more and better like that in the future so no this isnt bad
@@ipickedsomethingyeah I dont know what school you went to but the average American PE class is forcing kids to run a mile every week and then dance aerobics the rest of the time. For real
The weight doesn't have to be exactly between your legs to lift with glutes and hamstrings, it just takes practice to establish mind-muscle connection.
Спасибо, этому изобретателю, медику! Всё очень наглядно! Очень хорошо видно, что происходит с нашим позвоночником, когда мы неправильно поднимаем тяжести.
you have all have muscle imbalance. focus on glute dominance while lifting and isolate train your quads to even them out. you’re knees get better over time when you lift properly.
Take it from a 36 yr old whom has received 7 different spine surgeries, wake up every morning with severe pain in my lower back, get 3 maybe 4 hrs of sleep, can’t lie flat in bed, have a shooting pain with every movement from my lower back to my heels, can’t sit long periods of time, can’t drive long distances, will live the rest of my life on pain medication that will eventually no longer work.
Proper technique actually makes this false because humans have core muscles to brace and stabilize the back. So no, gyms don’t need this, they have proper training in safe deadlifts
Indeed, The theory is un practical, I worked in the dockside, the way I had to crawl and wrestle to get things done, no theorizing can explain the right way @@GlokkninefrmChicago
A tip I learned from PT is that not only should you not roll your back out while picking stuff up, but you should also NEVER tuck your back inward (despite what a lot of workout coaches and weightlifters tell you). Keep your back as straight as possible with your core tight. Any core exercises will only make things easier in the long run.
I think instruction a to tuck in are to stop from the tuck and curve out which is natural for untrained back posture, not to ac to ally be so far curved in that’s it’s not straight
I'm 57 and worked construction for yrs. Please take care of your back. I'm down most of the time because of mine. I live with a lot of pain. My life is not easy!
@@nolimitswerve6461 I do pain meds, smoke, chiropractor twice a month, work out in and out of the pool. I have a brace for every joint in my body and compression braces for my muscles. I have a tens unit that feels like heaven❤️❤️
I'm 29. I've been a roofer for 9 years. I've already got a slipped disc and it's some of the worst pain ive ever known. Imagine a hot knife being constantly pushed into one of your lower lumbar. Listen to these guys while your young. Back issues are no joke and will limit your activities for the rest of your life. Keep working hard and carry on yall.
Bone rubbing against bone meant I had a spinal fusion in my low back at age 18. It did work. But now there's the arthritis to contend with. Oh plus I have bad fibromyalgia & autoimmune. I never got the chance to screw up my back/body. Oh well it would probably be much worse if I had.
It's easy when it's something you can lift like this. Now imagine something that you cant bend your knees like this to carry, like big boxes or fricking Engines. How do you do that? Not everyone works carrying perfectly shaped buckets
@@MericaFirst99 I took physical education many years, not once did they teach us how to pick things up. I’d be willing to bet your gym coaches didn’t either
No…..I don’t pick things up with a guy holding my tailbone. Just know what ya body can do. Also know how to lift in uncomfortable positions. Lift weights, eat a bit better than ya should. Just ask for help……simple. Don’t work like me.
@@BIGCATSMILES00 It's not about learning, it's about conving them to do something that is much more tiring and difficult, because in case you didn't notice, lifting with your knees is way more difficult and tiring and comes much less natural than lifting with your back.
@@Mandorle21 for me I actually find it easier to lift with my legs cuz you have more muscle there. And I don’t think the “natural” way should cause you pain. Do you not see in the video? That looked painful just looking at it. Just because something is easier doesn’t mean it is right. It’s better than have terrible back pain in the future.
@@BIGCATSMILES00I mean it just comes down to personal opinions then. Cause lifting with back is easier imo. And I feel like the majority of people default to it. I know I do. I feel like the issue is doing it right evrytime and not slacking on doing it proper.
Thats what i do at work everyday but in real life you cant always be green saddly some objects you need to lift are hard to reach or oversized and you cant lift them like you should...
This isn’t accurate at all. It is proper and safe technique in both the squat and the deadlift to bend over. What’s unsafe is allowing the back to collapse and curve while lifting. If you keep your back stiff and straight (like a board, but slightly extended), you can bend over as much as you have to. This doll makes it look like it’s impossible to keep your back straight once you’re bent over; but that’s the primary issue here. If you’re lifting and it forces your back to bend under the weight, it’s simply too much weight. That’s how people hurt themselves. But you can absolutely keep your back straight under load, and in fact there is no way to lift heavier weight and do it more safely but to keep your back straight and stiff. This is an old wife’s tale and you’ll notice that nobody who tells it looks like they’ve ever been near a barbell. That matters because people have been working to lift the most weight possible for decades in the gym, and what you’ll notice is that none of the people who say this have ever actually put this into practice in any way. It’s almost like it’s supposed to be something exclusively for elderly people, I guess as though their body’s work differently than ours? Still though it’s the same; just worse consequences. If you can get our grandma doing squats with a straight but horizontal back; you are destroying life.
@@Tehownilator while I do agree with the majority of your comment, the main point of the model is showing a straight back (lifting with your legs) vs a straight back (lifting with your back) in an oversimplified way. Obviously, you can bend over at the waist while lifting or pushing, so long as you don’t bend your back. Use your limbs, not your spine. The main problem is our bodies are designed to be quadrupedal, not bipedal.
@Tehownilator powerlifter and strongman here. Happy someone said this. The model doesn't account for bracing, proper hip drive, and building maximal tension at all. I mean, yeah, people who don't lift won't just be able to do all 3 of those things on the fly, but still. I wish more people understood that the spine is adaptable under loads. Hell, there is bound to be curvature during a maximal deadlift, but if bracing and tension is there, it's OK. I'm not saying bending is ideal. But if you're adapted to something, your spine won't snap.
@TheNinthGenerarion Our bodies are definitely designed to be bipedal. If we were meant to be quadraped, our arms would be longer, our legs would be shorter, and our feet would be longer, or at least our legs would be much MUCH shorter. There's a reason you can't walk on your hands and feet anything like comfortably...it's because we're designed to be bipedal. Our spines are just crap for the same reason our teeth are...bad genetics from generations and generations of choosing partners frivolously or for poor reasons like money or a pretty face.
In theory, but in reality most working environments rarely have objects in convenient places to lift properly, things are often behind something else or under something or deep in some sort of shelf etc lol I’m big on proper lifting so it’s hard not to notice how true this is
Yeah I agree 100% , my work has washing machine drums among other things in annoying places where you can’t always pick them up in a safe way, especially because we use order pickers and sometimes have to lean over the guards to pull something onto the pallet at the back
Yeah, or I'll lift something properly, but I can't walk with it properly, because my legs need to go where the object is, and I'm not strong enough to lift it above my hips.
Im a hodcarrier for bricklayers and carry buckets of cement and bricks and concrete blocks every day up ladders onto roofs and all over the scaffold proper lifting is key
That’s why proper core control is so important. Being able to incorporate your back without putting it at risk. Also, while the literature is new and still building, it is starting to be more widely accepted that a small amount of rounding is okay. This is because injury most often occurs under two circumstances. Overuse injuries, wherein you may have put your body in a detrimental position to often. Or capacity injuries, wherein you applied to much of an external force, exceeding your bodies capacity
Most things I had to lift were wider than me, and you can not step under. So: looks nice, doesn't work. Always fun to hear Experts that never practiced. Your back gets trained. Don't start to heavy. I'm the only one in our family with good back, after 30 Years lifting heavy things. The others had office jobs.
With a near perfect correlation to back injuries and workman comp claims. Hmmmm. I wish we were aloud to get rid of people who can't so basically, physical movement properly. (Who are not disabled).
Ohhh, thank you for this demonstration! I've never been able to understand the difference, n every time people tell me to lift with my legs, they never actually took the time to show me how. Thank you!
@@SunflowerEyes252 it's the 2020s, you can't go assuming strangers have parents that taught them anything unless you're okay with potentially looking foolish for assuming wrong :3
This is actually super useful to me. I have a hard time visualising things, so having something explain wtf "lift with your legs not your back" meant is super cool 💛💛
Stuff like this should definitely be talked about more, whether it's aphantasia or just using the information practically most people learn better with a visual demonstration.
Nobody is gonna read this but there's this term in lifting called 'load management'. Basically incorrect lifting wont negatively affect you provided you don't exceed your load threshold i.e amount of weight, how many times your body can pick something up continuously before injury and how little rest you have before doing it again. Lifting with correct technique mitigates most risk but isnt completely safe either. I had chronic back pain since before lifting weights. It has gotten worse now, however, ironically despite this my back strength and overall posture have massively improved. People who learn too late can still take something away from this as there are still things they can make better.
Yea I learned by my little brother to lift properly before I effed my back up but since then I’ve had little back problems. 😂 funny how you think you can lift the world at a young age.
That is true BUT if you continuously lift heavy things improperly your body will one day 'snap'. Preventive is better than reactive and that's why the proper lifting posture.
In the weightlifting community it has recently been established that curving your back is not as bad of an issue as we previously thought. The main reason injury occurs is from over estimating how much weight your back can handle.
No shit 😂 respectfully . Now if your tryna hit a pr or your just ya know GOING A LIL HEAVY it’s gonna hurt your back hence why everyone wigs about posture . I feel like it’s kinda common sense on if you should or not . Me personally at the start I always kinda get a lil bend yk😂 throw it back a lil but on my second to last and last I’m always tryna t-bag the ground 😂 none of this was ment in a mean way either jus fyi
@@rafb145 yeah you're right, I do farm work, work on trucks ect. and my core, back, and shoulders are build like a wall. My legs look disproportionate as hell lmao, it might just be my bad knees though
@@samwoods3430 The ability to learn something new is very important. The idea that someone should not want to admit to having a gap in their knowledge is really toxic.
Manual Handling is a big part of my job, I always life just as good a baby would lift a small ball or box. As we get older we become more conscious of how we lift. Babies just get down and pick up their toys. So cute but effective
@@mattptv5479Focus on all your major muscle groups. For example if your back hurts quickly from lifting then try and focus more strength into the glutes and quads but still use your back. Ideally using your back and legs is ideal but depends on the situation. My knees are bad as I've got long legs and sat a lot as a kid but I lift with my arms and core a lot while using my knees as stability and a lift when I need to move a heavy object.
Well, if it's worth anything... I was a nurse for 45 yrs. Went out on disability w. what felt like 2 torn rotators ... (never repaired). One was definately gone. Entered a shelter to get help! Not a fun trip! Worked my way back slowly. I now own 1st home I ever bought alone after loosing everything! Now approaching 80 I still work 30-36 hrs driving livery in & outside of Boston. I have a lot of pain standing ... back And knees. I do not hurt driving tho! The wider you can extend your world in old age ... the longer you'll live! It's not fun getting up so early and doing 12-15 hr days but it's a wonderful thing to still be helping folks instead of being helped! PS ... I took in my disabled son so he didn't end up on the sts. It ain't fun out there! I did it so his bros realize he is worth helping. They will help when I am gone. Do take care and always. be thinking. and planning on an easier alternative career. We must learn to be resilient!
I used to clean and made decent money with it but I had to quit because my back was always sore and the sciatica was terrible. If I didn't have these problems i probably still would do cleaning jobs. The job is pretty chill if your supervisors ain't assholes.
I think it would be nice if PE actually taught things like this instead of just being told to run and do push ups and being yelled at if you were slow.
@@psyducktectiveyell at? Normally PE teachers are one of the chilliest teachers as long as you don’t cause trouble. Even my friends from different schools never gets yelled at by their PE teachers for not being good enough in class
@@shell6467 Maybe it's gotten better or maybe I just had bad teachers but I was always getting yelled at for not running fast enough. And one of my teachers would get angry at me whenever I started having asthma attacks as if it was my fault I was having trouble breathing.
I was taught this so many time's but as soon as your out of training and on the job the fucking bosses want things done so fast you forget all this just to get the work done. Now I'm 39 with two slipped discs and a further two discs that are in a really bad way and there's another thing they don't tell you is that not lifting correctly also damages your shoulders and neck and I'm telling you now if you damage the neck it is painful as a mother fucker 😢😔
I'm right there with you. America was built on the backs of guys like us. You can tell us apart because of our walking cane, whiskey and crazy stories 😂
8 years ago this information would have been a life-changing advice... Now I have to take care of myself anytime... Take so much care of your spine people!!! 👍🏻
Same I tried roller skating Started skating at the skate park Fell on the edge of the ramp and slipped 2 discs and broke something in my butt. Since I was 23 I'm 27 now I feel 90
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Mate, my knees and back are rooted. Thing about lifting is to use arms and stomach. The amount of times I've had people do the squat this thing and hurt themselves.
@jayd4332 Not really, the puppet needs to be vertical not to fall. Depending on people's proportions they'll have different angles they hold their upper body at during squats and deads. You maintain a neutral back during that lift even if you're at a 45 degree angle or a 75 degree angle. This doll needs to be at a 90 degree angle, many people can't lift at that angle properly during deads.
After moving furniture for more than 2 decades, my back is in great shape, and doesn't have any issues. All due to proper lifting techniques. My business slogan used to be "We'll save your back, and your bank". (For a reason).
The problem with this video is that, no person will pick a heavy object like it is demonstrated. You can only pick up relatively light thing this way. Once weight is heavier, people will automatically move their hips up, getting much better leverage and utilising bigger muscles. This does not mean that you should flex your back to lift stuff from the ground. Keeping your back straight does not mean keeping it horizontal though as this video suggests. The first pose also shows a person picking something from the ground which is way out of reach, not something a normal person would do with a heavy object.
Do squats and get a juicy man ass 1) Good for your back 2) You now have a built in pillow to sit on 3) Girls also love a stronk badonkadonk Win win win
Bro baby that thing, if you reaggravate it OMG man that pain is gonna be excruciating. Oh and btw, it will become chronic if you don’t heal it completely. Good luck dude.
the bad posture is bad for your knees as well. and even bad for your ankles too, also bad for the shoulder joint. once you see the actual skeleton version youll see how bad the poor lifting really is
You don't isolate the knees. Your flat feet along with the heels, knees, thighs, and buttocks, are what are supposed balance and power the lift. That's what many get wrong more often than not. Hence, lots of visits to the hospital and/or chiropractor.
