aquacat8
Contributor
I’ve had back pain intermittently since 20’s. Regular swimming is the best thing for my back, I swim very gently, with swim fins on, slow easy and graceful... you don’t thrash your joints like you do swimming without the fins, fewer kicks and the mild resistance tones muscles, and lots of dolphin undulating tones core, and the gills are happy, brain is peaceful, sleep is better. I’m amazed so many divers don’t swim. You can do it your whole life. I loved yoga for a while, but injured my shoulder, my back hurt, I started having a lot of hip pain too— yoga can be surprisingly dangerous. And don’t tell me my alignment sucked, I had a ton of classes and even worked in a yoga studio! Back to just swimming!