How lifting weights allowed me to sleep again

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It's plain simple folks, if you're having trouble with a lower back pain hitting the gym can do a lot for you. Especially it such a condition is messing up your beloved bedtime.

I stopped weightlifiting around december 2015 thanks to an irregular med school schedule and some monetary problems. Everything seemed normal afterwards, until six months later.

Somehow an very naive scoliosis had managed to establish itself on my lower spine. Perhaps could have been the result of improper posture as time (months, years) went by (standing at 6ft"1in height, keeping your spine straight becomes quite a challenge) or an injury not treated properly.

The diagnosis impacted my mood in the same way a bullet shatters a watermelon into pieces.

And to make things even worse, lower back pain started to take its toll on my sleeping habit.

A bad sleep will certainly slow your performance on many areas of your life, from work to your personal life. This was happening quite fast and I had to find a solution.

But when you live in a country whose economy has been blasted by socialism during 20 years, finding painkillers or proper therapy becomes quite up the hill. After two years I started to think that my back pain had no fix and nothing else could be done.

However the solution had been always in the place I thought the less. Returning to weight lifting (with the proper security measures and corrections) technically erradicated the pain in less than a few weeks.

No lower back pain = Better sleep.

If medical bills and painkilling drugs are messing up with your finances or your hardly earned Steemit currency, hitting the weights and doing some body weight extensions will do a better thing for you than several common prescriptions.

Have you suffered a similar condition? That bench press station or a workout consisting of some good old squats and deadlifts will help you to improve your life for better.

And believe me, being able to sleep properly again can be true blessing.