Are your chest muscles too strong? Could they possibly be the cause of the muscle knots in your back?
Knots in your back can be caused by overstretch of back muscles. When the back muscles are overstretched they complain. They get knots or give you pain in some other way. That’s how muscles communicate.
Poor posture is the most common cause for upper back muscle strain but here’s another aggravating factor.
This note came to me from a reader who had muscle knots in his back.
I discovered that my pain came from unbalanced exercise. I have in the past and was again doing a push-up regimen. Without strengthening the counter-balancing upper back muscles, my push-ups were causing imbalance and thus pain. I’m now doing a more balanced workout and feeling fine.
It’s much more common that our back muscles are weak and overstretched instead of strong and relaxed.
Here’s a video that can help lengthen your chest muscles and strengthen your back muscles:
If you spend lots of time exercising the chest muscles making them look and be big and strong, they can easily overrule your back muscles.
We need strong back sides from the knees to the base of the skull. That is what will help keep you from having miserable muscle knots in your back.
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