by Caleb Lee

Your spine is arguably the most important structure in your body, so it's important to take care of it. Your spine gets a lot of compression from daily activities, gravity and general life. Add to that the extra compression you give it with strength training and you better start decompressing it.

Backbone health is really important, and I'm willing to bet that nearly everyone of you have back trouble presently. I myself hurt my lower back more or less a year ago, and this is one of the methods I utilized to regain it to 99% (yet occasionally gets tight or sore). I'll do a comprehensive post on why you have back trouble and how to correct it soon. Meanwhile, read this without further ado.

What you want to do is follow a trouble-free decompression technique that helps to keep your backbone strong and mobile by helping it decompress to its original length.

Here's everything you need to know

How To Execute Spine Decompressions

You'll need a pull-up bar to perform your decompressions. As soon as you have that piece of equipment, there's two ways to do this:

1. Take Gravity Boots: This is the technique that I employ. These are boots that you tie onto your ankles and have hooks on them so you can hang upside down from your pullup bar without harm and let your spinal column to decompress. I utilize Teeter Hang Ups Gravity Boots. An additional bonus is that with these boots I can execute reversed sit ups for my abs and other hip "upside down" exercises.

2. Hang With Your Hands: This is simple. Basically hang from your pull-up bar and loosen all your muscles-hold it for as long as possible. The longer you hang the better shoot for no less than 5 minutes and build up from there. You most likely can't hang that long, so here's

How To Hang On Longer With Your Hands

The longer you hang the better, though your grip will most likely give out. While I would never suggest making use of lifting straps for your usual lifting, I recommend them for decompressions since it will allow you to grip longer. Prefer nylon-type lifting straps or lifting hook straps since they're extra strong.

How To Relax Your Muscles So Your Spine Decompresses

Your muscles need to be relaxed in order for your spine to decompress (staying tight won't help). Here's what to do whether you're using the gravity boots method or the hanging from your hands method:

* Come down the pull-up bar

* Take a deep breath and sustain it

* Tighten your entire body (target abs, glutes and make fists)

* Keep your whole body tight for 5 secs

* Release it all, your breath and the entire tightness. Kick back

When you do this you'll sense your whole body relaxing and you'll most likely "drop" down a bit. You'll probably feel your back decompressing, particularly the first few times.

How Frequent You Must Decompress

Every day is great. Though I have to admit that I don't do it day by day always. But you certainly should aim to do it as much as possible. If you get tired hanging upside down you can read a book or something. It's great to do these right after your strength training sessions, right after your settle down-think of it as a part of your cooldown.

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