Best Inversion Tables
Inversion tables are modern saviors for a modern set of problems: painful backs and painful shoulders. They work by inverting the body in a safe and secure manner and enabling your painful and knotted muscles to experience some gravity induced stretching.
I use and inversion table at my gym and I love it. I am a big guy, 280 pounds and my back pain is chronic. I have tried massage and normal yoga. Massage generally does not work for me because, well, I am just too large. It is too difficult for a masseuse to penetrate to my tired and painful muscles. Something that people looking at me often do not realize is that because I am a big guy, my muscles are correspondingly large. At least in some areas. I am of course not a bodybuilding person with perfect symmetry, but I have to carry a lot of weight around, my own weight. For me inversion tables have been a heaven sent gift. I thought I was just too big for the equipment but the gym instructor assured me that it was more than strong enough for me.
What is the process then. I go to the gym two to three time a week. I always make sure to spend at least 10 minutes on the inversion table. The most important part of using the inversion table is to secure the feet ties. This is easy to do because, at least on my table, the ties are made super secure just by closing them. They have a wonderful technology that locks me in but is also comfortable at the same time. Once I am in I use the side lever to rotate myself into an almost vertical position for five minutes and then for another five minutes at vertical.
People ask me if being upside down is difficult for my breathing. Actually it is pretty good for my breathing. Yoga teachers use inversions to clear the sinuses and the lungs and it is true, being upside down does work. I also do not get red eyes or flushed for longer than a minute after descending. I find that the longer I am on the table, the less flushed I become.
Once I descend I walk around slowly and enjoy the wonderful relief that the table has brought me. Can I recommend the best inversion table? Not really, I think you need to go and try one out or order one online and test it out. Make sure you read the reviews. In my opinion they are probably all very good and there is not really a best inversion table out there. After all the function of these tables is quite simple and they do work.
For my shoulders what I do it to let my arms hang over my head. Somehow this torques my tarpezius muscles into a nice twisty stretchy downward pull. It works. For my back, I just hang there. Thinking about it, I do consciously move my body around a bit so that I can feel the painful areas being stretched. My back is large and if I don’t maneuver around a bit, I will stretch out some area that does not need it.
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