Over the past few months I’ve been talking about back injuries in firefighters. First I cleared up a few myths about back injuries (see myths). Now I’m going over exercises that firefighters should AVOID. (See those I’ve discussed so far: sit-ups, back extension machine, prone hyperextension and the calf raise [...]

Over the past few months I’ve been talking about back injuries in firefighters. First I cleared up a few myths about back injuries (see myths). Now I’m going over exercises that firefighters should AVOID. (See those I’ve discussed so far: sit-ups, back extension machine and prone hyperextension.) Over these past [...]

Over the past few months I've been talking about back injuries in firefighters. First I cleared up a few myths about back injuries (see myths). Now I'm outlining the exercises that firefighters should AVOID. Over the past few weeks I’ve explained that some exercises we do in our workouts, while [...]

Over the past few months I've been talking about back injuries in firefighters. First I cleared up a few myths about back injuries (see myths). Next we need to talk about exercises that firefighters should AVOID. As I discussed last week, although firefighters clearly need to have a strong core,  [...]

A few weeks ago I began a series about a dire and complicated problem in the fire service: back injuries. If you haven’t seen it yet (it’s posted on every page of this series), the video below is a good primer about the misconceptions we have about treating and preventing [...]