Joe Rogan Experience #2356 - Mike Vecchione

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The Joe Rogan Experience.

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Feeling better now?

It's awesome.

Does it, does it feel a little bit better?

It does feel better, yeah.

A little bit?

Yeah.

You, it's just a consistent thing, you have to do it every day.

Yeah.

We're talking about decompressing the back, ladies and gentlemen.

Lower back pain.

Another thing you can do without a machine is just, um, bend your knees, just bend slightly, grab your arms like this, and just, like, go forward and relax your back, and it'll pop your back that way, too.

Huh. I don't know how to pop a upper back.

Hmm.

That's where you have-

Oh, when you get someone to grab you?

Yeah, the person's grab you, and then-

Yeah, that's kinda-

... hold you, and then, and then you can hear it crack. I don't know how, you know, I don't know how good it is.

It's kinda nonsense. It's kinda nonsense.

Right. But, uh, the lower back is, uh, when I played football, I played contact football, and we used to go to, uh, physicals. You had to get a physical, and it was just a gigantic room, and you'd go from doctor to doctor so everybody could do it at one time. And I remember I laid down, and the doctor grabbed my leg and he was trying to get range of motion, and he got it, like, three-quarters of the way up and it stopped. And he said to me, "You're gonna have lower back pain when you're older." And that's exactly what happened. (laughs)

(laughs) You can avoid it.

He predicted it.

There, there's, there's a lot of ways to avoid it. You know, people just accept it, but, uh, what, what you're telling me right there, uh, b- with not being able to get your leg up, that's a hamstring issue. So one thing, hamstrings and quads, uh, and, uh, and glutes-

Right.

... all the tightness in those areas will absolutely affect your back. Because anytime you have restricted range of motion and you're really tight-

Right.

... everything else is tight, too.

Yeah, yeah.

And so everything, like, kinda pulled down, and you have to figure out a way to lengthen that shit out.

Right.

And, um, there's a lot of different stretches you could do, but you definitely should be doing them. Nobody likes to stretch, it sucks, everybody hates it.

It sucks.

But if you don't do it, you're gonna go to a doctor and they're gonna wanna cut you open.

Yeah.

And don't do that, because there's other ways around that. If you're listening to this and you got a bulging disc in your back, there's ways around it, folks. There's decompression, there's stem cells, there's a thing that I did a long time ago in California called... Oh my god, what is it called? What is that shit called, though, that Peyton Manning did and- Regenakine? ... Regenakine, thank you.