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Hey all, I've recently just started doing acro type stuff at a gymnasium where there's no structured style of learning. Basically people turn up and can use the room and equipment to practice their stuff.
I started perhaps about 12 weeks ago and can now do back and front somersaults (in the air) and back and front handsprings. The only problem is that whenever I practice my handsprings I tend to pull a back muscle at the lower part of my middle back and the vertabrae next to it also feels a little bruised (not sure if this is just because of the muscle or not). A couple of people have mentioned that I'm putting a bit too much height in my back handsprings and not enough lateral movement. I'm wondering if this could be contributing to this injury?
Also can someone recommend the best way to treat this injury and stop it from happening again? Perhaps by doing some sort of back exercises or something?
I'm 28 year old guy (yeah I know it's frowned upon for someone to start gymnastics at my age but I really enjoy it).
Any feedback would be helpful!
Thanks!
I started perhaps about 12 weeks ago and can now do back and front somersaults (in the air) and back and front handsprings. The only problem is that whenever I practice my handsprings I tend to pull a back muscle at the lower part of my middle back and the vertabrae next to it also feels a little bruised (not sure if this is just because of the muscle or not). A couple of people have mentioned that I'm putting a bit too much height in my back handsprings and not enough lateral movement. I'm wondering if this could be contributing to this injury?
Also can someone recommend the best way to treat this injury and stop it from happening again? Perhaps by doing some sort of back exercises or something?
I'm 28 year old guy (yeah I know it's frowned upon for someone to start gymnastics at my age but I really enjoy it).
Any feedback would be helpful!
Thanks!