Ah, a video adaptation of my very first Return of Kings article: the bridge! An exercise new readers have likely never done before, but you really ought to start doing. Old time readers of this site should be well familiar with it.

I mastered bridging when I was in my sophomore year of college, at a time when I had never once attempted to deadlift. A year or two later, when I no longer bridged and started to deadlift, I lifted with horrible form, as most people do when they first attempt that exercise. It took me about two months to realize that I was getting persistent lower back pain.

Once I began to bridge again, it took the edge off my back pain. Once I shored up my form, continuing to do rounds of bridging afterwards, I have literally never had any back pain from deadlifting again, and in that timespan I have gone from deadlifting 95 pounds to deadlifting 350 pounds.

Many lifters complain about throwing their backs out, having herniated vertebral discs, and other spinal suffering, but these are fates I have completely avoided, which I attribute to bridging. As a side benefit, bridging gave me these (literally and figuratively) groovy erector spinae muscles snaking up the middle of my back  a defined muscle that you will rarely see at the gym.

And needless to say, women find a man that can bend backwards and touch the ground to be mighty sexy. And that’s just where the benefits of bridging start

Also, excuse the preponderance of workout videos in the last couple of weeks—the new job demands lots of hours. Next week will be a humorous video, I promise! I also promise it won’t be a Moviebob video.

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