Hey man i just wanted to say thanks. First for posting these past 2 videos about your back pain. And second, for responding to me a little while ago just saying a few words that gave me some hope for my back injury. I have been dealing with this injury for about a year and a half and just now i think the general trend of my recovery is becoming positive. Your response to me really helped give me a moral boost when i was very low and doubtful. At that point i had tried so many different things, with deliberate and focused everyday effort. Then you posted the video about your back injury and it gave me some new ideas and people to look into. Just wanted to let you know that you really are helping people.
Using the reverse hyper just with a small swing at the bottom with a lot of weight and focusing on traction of the spine makes my lumbar region and some of my thoracic feel like I was born again.
Really appreciate these videos Johnny! It has been a year since my upper back injury that bothered me daily. This month it has gotten noticeably better and there has been days now where I'm pain free for the whole day! Your videos are very inspiring to me, thanks!
Glad u made an update ur last vid helped me so much especially the 10 min walks another thing that really helped me a lot and saw huge improvements was doing suitcase deadlifts on smith machine and over all adding more unilateral movements really helped me right now I’m 15 pounds away from were I was before I got injured.. thanks for your advice candito !!!
The back rehab exercise I’ve found to work the best for me is just hanging from a pull-up bar after every training session , so satisfying to hear those cracks and feel the back become unstiff
Mr. Candito, completely off topic but is your dad still lifting with the goal of increasing his lifts. I myself am closing in on 60, discovered power lifting type training about 5 years ago, not much of a training history before that. Maybe because I started so late and am not beat up from years of lifting, I am lucky enough to still be increasing my lifts and not fighting just to maintain them.Related with your father on so many little things when I came across old vids of the two of you benching. I must admit that I was nervous like your dad to push the limit but after a couple of minor injuries I have become better at reading my body and understand the importance of secondary lifts, like face pulls for shoulders. Any how would love to hear what kind of program he runs or one that he would recommend .
Shoulder pain here :( i work as a CNA so i guess my zero-progression activity is just being able to do those 12hr shifts. It actually stresses out my shoulders more than heavy squats or deads with awkward movememts like rolling or catching pts. You're truly an inspiration man, thank you!
The ways I have been treating my back pain has been doing alot of isometrics involving the core and stretching all the areas I've been really tight. I have been ignoring stretches for a long time...I'm really tight in my hip flexors and hamstrings. Since I've been stretching religiously every morning when I wake up and ever night before bed. I found a obvious improvement in my range of motion and decrease pain in my lower back.
this is an amazing kind of guide to get back into training. i wish i did it this way keeping a slow progression with some ground rules that might hurt your ego abit. this is defenetly very effective great content Johnny!
Hey Johnny, thanks for all the Energy you're putting in! Just followed your 6 Week Strength Programm an made a huge steps forward. But: I suffer from scoliosis or Morbus Scheuermann since I'm 14 years old. Now with 28, im at a point where my deadlift stagnated and everytime I'm doing some pulls i tend to bend over and get a very rounded back. Tried to do face pulls, but im not sure how do i activated the muscles of my thoracic spine to stand up straigth. I even have to remind myself to sit straigth in the office, on the couch etc. Maybe you have some tips after your back injury. Greetings from germany!
Sounds like you are making your own version of RTS's TRAC for yourself. I've been using TRAC and its free to use by anyone. It just helps manage training stress (via freq, inst, vol, or exercise variation) for soreness/pain tied to a particular movement
What exactly happened in your back? I had a pinched nerve, that im still treating, was something similar? And please, keep the series, i've been fighting through this injury 2 years now
@shafiq blake My thoracic back akes when I curl or lift anything while standing. I can only curl when Im sitting. I cant bench or squat heavy because my thoracic back hurts a lot. To the point that if I do bench heavy or squat heavy or etc at the next day I'll be so in much pain that I cant move properly. I can workout since I only pick light weights for 20 + reps. My main problem are my spinal erectors and a minor bulding disk on my thoracic spine. I kind know the problem but I dont know how to solve it. Im like this since 2015
@shafiq blake most probably due to lack of core spinability my vertebra had micro movements. 44 days since it started its 60% off working on core instability.. did an mri it came out normal but i saw your mri on group and idk how it looks on transverse section but on side section your mri looks well and healthy..
hey johnny I don't have much understanding in powerlifting so I wanna ask: what do you/federations take in consideration to reach legal depth on the squat? Also completely random, do you happen to know why geared powerlifters lower the weight super slowly?
Johnny, you use nearly perfect form on almost all your lifts, then why are you suffering from back injury? Is there anything you did wrong or avoided? If there is anything then please inform us as well please!
Not sure if you are familiar with Stuart McGill (the Back Mechanic), but I seem to recall he discourages people from doing Reverse Hypers (as you show at 9:40). Apparently they do more harm then good. Other than that, cheers for the vid and insights!
Mark D he doesn't actually say that. He pretty regularly has his clients use them, but he generally advocates not allowing the pendulum arm to swing under in a dynamic traction.
So what injury did he get? I also have and injury I was deadlifting (conventional) and to make a long story short my so joint shifted. I got that fixed but have a muscle in balance with my posterior chain.
Got so many keyboard warriors argue when people say exercises like deadlifts etc are dangerous. Got candito here whose form is as good as it can get and hes making videos about back injury. Dont do these dangerous exercises guys unless ur competing
Great video Jonnie. I'd say the oddest thing about my back pain was my sciatica. Because I used to have intense sciatica when going from sitting to standing and slowly over time it just went away.... I didn't do anything special. Just trained as normal and now I pretty much never feel it. I guess some things just need time.
Sciatica (if it truly is sciatica) is often caused by disk herniations, the jelly inside the disk seeps out and presses on the nerves that pass down to the legs which causes the shooting pain. In around 2/3 cases, the immune system is able to clear up the jelly over a few months and so they heal up on their own.
Azraf Chowdhury Yeah I never got an MRI to confirm it but i pretty much knew it was a herniation due to all the ssymtoms. The thing about the sciatica that I thought was strange was that it onset at a point when I wasn't having any back pain and disappeared the same way. Just kind of randomly.
Where are your stretching illustrations or you're stretching workouts that you used to help you get better can't find them anywhere all shows as you lifting
Worlds is coming up in 3 months, are there any lifters you think we should look out for? Anyone in we wouldn't note from weird classes like the 66kg class perhaps?
Candito 6 Week Strength Program brought me form a 90 kg squat to a 170 kg squat will be forever grateful. Will i hit 200 kg this year at my first meet in September? stay tuned @9_81_wontstopme. Thank u so much for giving me the tools to blast up my workouts. Love love love from germany.
I notice you don't really train beltless anymore? Does it make your back hurt more without the belt or is just preventitive or.. do you still recommend for most people to train without a belt?
I would say that is most true for PR's or very low rep sets like 1-3 but that is not necessarily true for just working sets of 5-12. Total strength is all relative to the athlete so that is irrelevant. I know many elite lifters that most often do not use a belt such as Jesse Norris and I believe that in the past Candito recommended to train without it most of the time. That is why I am asking just wondering it is a injury related choice.
Do I have to do the calf raises in the linear strength/hypertrophy program? I love you, your channel, your Instagram, and your programs but I just HATE training calves
Jonnie, have you even tried bouncing on a bosu ball while bracing your core? It works like a pump flushing fresh blood to the area almost like the midline example you’ve given us.
Can you make a video or tell me how you hurt your back IN THE FIRST PLACE? I've asked on nearly every video on your back you've fucking made and I can't find out anywhere. lol
Watch his video titled "comeback season," if I'm not mistaken that's the one where he explains it - happened after he broke his toe at IPF World's 2015. Not 100% sure tho, @candito pls confirm. Worth a watch anyways, great video.
Oh heavenly Orange Booty Strength God.
Thou Art in the Gym,
And in a meet,
Give us this day our daily gains,
And forgive us from red lights.
Amen. 🙏🙏🙏
Joe Mc joejoe 😆😆😆
Gaaaaaay
Hey Johnny Candito, can you make a video every 4 hours? Thanks.
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clicked on this video with my scapular retracted and my core braced
Rush380
😂😂😂
You better have used leg drive to push that button
Don’t have any injuries but I’ll watch it anyway
damn you guys are fast
omg candito acknowledged me
I can relate to feeling relief with another injury. After dealing with a hip injury for a year, I was almost happy when my knee started hurting again.
Candito is the only channel i have notifications turned on for :^)
Same
Hey man i just wanted to say thanks. First for posting these past 2 videos about your back pain. And second, for responding to me a little while ago just saying a few words that gave me some hope for my back injury. I have been dealing with this injury for about a year and a half and just now i think the general trend of my recovery is becoming positive. Your response to me really helped give me a moral boost when i was very low and doubtful. At that point i had tried so many different things, with deliberate and focused everyday effort. Then you posted the video about your back injury and it gave me some new ideas and people to look into. Just wanted to let you know that you really are helping people.
hows your back now bro? completely pain free?
Thanks for the profile pic based candytoe
Using the reverse hyper just with a small swing at the bottom with a lot of weight and focusing on traction of the spine makes my lumbar region and some of my thoracic feel like I was born again.
Really appreciate these videos Johnny! It has been a year since my upper back injury that bothered me daily. This month it has gotten noticeably better and there has been days now where I'm pain free for the whole day! Your videos are very inspiring to me, thanks!
Glad u made an update ur last vid helped me so much especially the 10 min walks another thing that really helped me a lot and saw huge improvements was doing suitcase deadlifts on smith machine and over all adding more unilateral movements really helped me right now I’m 15 pounds away from were I was before I got injured.. thanks for your advice candito !!!
how u doing now bro? completely pain free?
The back rehab exercise I’ve found to work the best for me is just hanging from a pull-up bar after every training session , so satisfying to hear those cracks and feel the back become unstiff
Some youtubers keep people interested but some continually spark an interest!
Y'all mind if I just smash that like button real quick?
TheRobotbill I will
the most important videos on this channel for me
Is your goal to hit 700 in a powerlifting meet or in the gym? Also are you considering competing anytime soon? When will we see you chase records
Did you literally just intro your video by walking in holding a Jesus candle?
Mr. Candito, completely off topic but is your dad still lifting with the goal of increasing his lifts. I myself am closing in on 60, discovered power lifting type training about 5 years ago, not much of a training history before that. Maybe because I started so late and am not beat up from years of lifting, I am lucky enough to still be increasing my lifts and not fighting just to maintain them.Related with your father on so many little things when I came across old vids of the two of you benching. I must admit that I was nervous like your dad to push the limit but after a couple of minor injuries I have become better at reading my body and understand the importance of secondary lifts, like face pulls for shoulders. Any how would love to hear what kind of program he runs or one that he would recommend .
These videos are awesome! Very helpful to a lot of people. Keep up the good work
Fantastic advice. Thank you. All of the points you made are incredibly important.
You’re a smart guy man. Thanks for these videos about your back.
Candito the man that got me into powerlifting :)
Shoulder pain here :( i work as a CNA so i guess my zero-progression activity is just being able to do those 12hr shifts. It actually stresses out my shoulders more than heavy squats or deads with awkward movememts like rolling or catching pts. You're truly an inspiration man, thank you!
Wise gems in this vid. Would love to hear about your lifting reflection thought processes and how you keep that objectivity.
What was the extent of your injury? Which disc? Herniated? Bulged? Any referred pain?
The ways I have been treating my back pain has been doing alot of isometrics involving the core and stretching all the areas I've been really tight. I have been ignoring stretches for a long time...I'm really tight in my hip flexors and hamstrings. Since I've been stretching religiously every morning when I wake up and ever night before bed. I found a obvious improvement in my range of motion and decrease pain in my lower back.
I see you Candito... subtle flex with those J1 Gatorade Cool Blue's
thank you! Part 1 + 2 were very helpful, specially the mental part (:
this is an amazing kind of guide to get back into training. i wish i did it this way keeping a slow progression with some ground rules that might hurt your ego abit. this is defenetly very effective great content Johnny!
Hey Johnny,
thanks for all the Energy you're putting in!
Just followed your 6 Week Strength Programm an made a huge steps forward.
But: I suffer from scoliosis or Morbus Scheuermann since I'm 14 years old. Now with 28, im at a point where my deadlift stagnated and everytime I'm doing some pulls i tend to bend over and get a very rounded back.
Tried to do face pulls, but im not sure how do i activated the muscles of my thoracic spine to stand up straigth.
I even have to remind myself to sit straigth in the office, on the couch etc.
Maybe you have some tips after your back injury.
Greetings from germany!
I see you rockin' dem sabos for the win!
Classic TSA
Hi candito, i just wanna say I just made an instagram last week just to follow you. LOL
Sounds like you are making your own version of RTS's TRAC for yourself. I've been using TRAC and its free to use by anyone. It just helps manage training stress (via freq, inst, vol, or exercise variation) for soreness/pain tied to a particular movement
Jonnie talks about fitting in a single isometric every day but with no progression. This helps me also.
Almost wish it was your knee so I could get a similar perspective on that. Great video as usual keep up the good work.
5:06 Johnnie spitting bars!
Hi Jonnie,
Is your form check service still up and running?
What exactly happened in your back? I had a pinched nerve, that im still treating, was something similar? And please, keep the series, i've been fighting through this injury 2 years now
@shafiq blake bro i saw your comment in some site...hows your back now bro?
@shafiq blake i guess in fb group...what was your injury?
@shafiq blake Im still screwd
@shafiq blake My thoracic back akes when I curl or lift anything while standing. I can only curl when Im sitting. I cant bench or squat heavy because my thoracic back hurts a lot. To the point that if I do bench heavy or squat heavy or etc at the next day I'll be so in much pain that I cant move properly. I can workout since I only pick light weights for 20 + reps. My main problem are my spinal erectors and a minor bulding disk on my thoracic spine. I kind know the problem but I dont know how to solve it. Im like this since 2015
@shafiq blake most probably due to lack of core spinability my vertebra had micro movements. 44 days since it started its 60% off working on core instability.. did an mri it came out normal but i saw your mri on group and idk how it looks on transverse section but on side section your mri looks well and healthy..
hey johnny I don't have much understanding in powerlifting so I wanna ask: what do you/federations take in consideration to reach legal depth on the squat?
Also completely random, do you happen to know why geared powerlifters lower the weight super slowly?
hip joint on or under line with knee cap
edit here is a list for all the federations: liftbigeatbig.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/feds.jpg
candito 4 life!!
Johnny, you use nearly perfect form on almost all your lifts, then why are you suffering from back injury? Is there anything you did wrong or avoided? If there is anything then please inform us as well please!
Cuz i think it just depends on the individual regardless of the form. There are people who never lifted anything on there lives then had this problem
Not sure if you are familiar with Stuart McGill (the Back Mechanic), but I seem to recall he discourages people from doing Reverse Hypers (as you show at 9:40). Apparently they do more harm then good. Other than that, cheers for the vid and insights!
Mark D he doesn't actually say that. He pretty regularly has his clients use them, but he generally advocates not allowing the pendulum arm to swing under in a dynamic traction.
Your skin is sooo smooth wtf. Nohomo
Well i have pain when pressing or extensions (whenever i raise my legs 90 degree) thoughts?
So what injury did he get?
I also have and injury I was deadlifting (conventional) and to make a long story short my so joint shifted. I got that fixed but have a muscle in balance with my posterior chain.
I definitely find that total rest = more back pain as well.
Was this injury from a specific movement at a specific time? Lumbar or thoracic pain? Any MRI?
Got so many keyboard warriors argue when people say exercises like deadlifts etc are dangerous. Got candito here whose form is as good as it can get and hes making videos about back injury. Dont do these dangerous exercises guys unless ur competing
Agreed.
My back is fucked, gonna check out part 1 now. Thanks.👍
Opinion on Clarence Kennedy?
Dario what is there to say? he's strong asf
Johnny, why no olympic shoes? Your heels lifts a little at the bottom.
you look like older will from stranger things
Keep this upload rate going pleaseeeee
Great video Jonnie. I'd say the oddest thing about my back pain was my sciatica. Because I used to have intense sciatica when going from sitting to standing and slowly over time it just went away....
I didn't do anything special. Just trained as normal and now I pretty much never feel it. I guess some things just need time.
Sciatica (if it truly is sciatica) is often caused by disk herniations, the jelly inside the disk seeps out and presses on the nerves that pass down to the legs which causes the shooting pain. In around 2/3 cases, the immune system is able to clear up the jelly over a few months and so they heal up on their own.
Disc*
Azraf Chowdhury Yeah I never got an MRI to confirm it but i pretty much knew it was a herniation due to all the ssymtoms.
The thing about the sciatica that I thought was strange was that it onset at a point when I wasn't having any back pain and disappeared the same way. Just kind of randomly.
@@BiglennyjuniorBrother does sitting caused you low back pain before you recovered
@@azrafchowdhury1488brother did you had disc injury if so how long it took for you to get pain free?
Reverse neutral lol. I love your vids man.
Big squats = Big ass .
Get it Candito .
I just want to make sure I understand it correctly: this is about spinal disc herniation, right?
I’ve been waiting on this forever I snapped up about a year ago and I’m still only like 90% I wanna get to 100%
i have some protrusion discs on my lombar and thoracic spine. Can i do squat with this injuries?
Famous last words .
I hurt my back doing the twisting motion sometimes, for instance when shoulder checking when driving. Now i'm sketching out
Where are your stretching illustrations or you're stretching workouts that you used to help you get better can't find them anywhere all shows as you lifting
Excellent video
Worlds is coming up in 3 months, are there any lifters you think we should look out for? Anyone in we wouldn't note from weird classes like the 66kg class perhaps?
5055672439 I think it would be really cool to get a preview for world actually
Candito 6 Week Strength Program brought me form a 90 kg squat to a 170 kg squat will be forever grateful. Will i hit 200 kg this year at my first meet in September? stay tuned @9_81_wontstopme. Thank u so much for giving me the tools to blast up my workouts. Love love love from germany.
Would you elaborate on your symptoms?
Good talk Jonnie
Didn't you make a video a few years ago about how you were never going to get injured?
Big respect tho, super strong!
Lol when you said TSA I thought you meant The Strength Athlete.
Are those squat shoes? What model of Nike are they?
Cool bananas. You get bluetooth headphones yet?
Candito’s still dumb thicc 2:47
Zach stupid thicccc 🤤🤤🤤🤤
I notice you don't really train beltless anymore? Does it make your back hurt more without the belt or is just preventitive or.. do you still recommend for most people to train without a belt?
soldatheero he probably doesn’t film belt-less warm ups
So then you are suggesting all his working sets are with a belt then.
soldatheero I’d assume so. If you’re lifting elite level numbers, it’s almost necessary
I would say that is most true for PR's or very low rep sets like 1-3 but that is not necessarily true for just working sets of 5-12. Total strength is all relative to the athlete so that is irrelevant. I know many elite lifters that most often do not use a belt such as Jesse Norris and I believe that in the past Candito recommended to train without it most of the time. That is why I am asking just wondering it is a injury related choice.
I wish there was a love button
What about those shoes? Retro Nike air flight? 👌👌👌
Candito can someone one with 355 deadlift with year and 4 months of training
Jorge Inzunza yes, I’ve done it
Camm k okay thanks for the help
DID U HAD HERNIATED DISK
Do I have to do the calf raises in the linear strength/hypertrophy program? I love you, your channel, your Instagram, and your programs but I just HATE training calves
Jonnie candito of canditoFitness?
Jonnie, have you even tried bouncing on a bosu ball while bracing your core? It works like a pump flushing fresh blood to the area almost like the midline example you’ve given us.
#The Real White Ranger, watch out Bromar
Hahaha grandpa Candito over here
How do you sit down that long? Sit Indian style it's better on the body!
Thanks Harry Potter for your Chamber of Back Rehab Secrets!
😅 yep, you cant walk around like a robot forever
How did johny hurt his back??
I think he said it was a squat one time.
Damn...I thought overcoming back injury meant 320kg DL...but I was wrong...
Nice video🌈
Training goal 2018; play with dogs
You're at grandma's aren't you. Lol
Can you make a video or tell me how you hurt your back IN THE FIRST PLACE? I've asked on nearly every video on your back you've fucking made and I can't find out anywhere. lol
Watch his video titled "comeback season," if I'm not mistaken that's the one where he explains it - happened after he broke his toe at IPF World's 2015. Not 100% sure tho, @candito pls confirm. Worth a watch anyways, great video.
o shit, thanks I'll go look, I was just looking for shit with back or injury in the title
i wanna say he got banged up from a bad squat session.
Is this lilhawkboy🤔🤔🤔
I miss the HQ intros ... :(
Outros are good though.
What was up woth that cheesy smile at the end lol
See earlier in the video.
Who's here before 1 million?
1 million what lol
bad shoes for squatting
smh you're trolling, shoes with air pockets on squats and deadlift shoes on leg press
Is orange your favorite color lol
Is that Jesus next to you? :)