There are many advantages of inversion tables, which is why so many people are beginning to incorporate inversion therapy into their everyday fitness routine. If you are still wondering if inversion tables do work, then consider the following advantages of such exercise:
Inversion Tables May Help Reduce Back Pain
Over time your muscles, ligaments, and joints are very succeptible to joint pressure created by gravity and by you simply walking around and working out. This pressure builds over time, compressing your discs, ligaments, and muscles into something similar to a big rubber band ball that envelopes your spine. This compression makes it more difficult for your discs to rehydrate and put unwanted and painful pressure on your nerve roots (which run towards the spine through the space between your vertabrae–if that space is compressed then the nerve roots will be affected). There have been many studies that indicate that such issues are factors in the back pain that millions of Americans are forced to deal with each and every day.
One of the biggest advantages of inversion tables is that they can help reduce and relieve these problems caused by the compression of your discs, ligaments, and muscles. By inverting as little as 60% on an inversion table can effectively relieve 100% of the pressure inside your discs (as 60% of your body weight is required to achieve such relief), which is amazing considering that even laying down only relieves 75% of that pressure. This relief in turns helps your discs to recover from the daily stresses of compression and increases that space in between them.
Inversion Table Exercises Can Help Increase Your Overall Health
Inversion therapy helps tremendously in the following:
- Help Stimulate Circulation of both your blood flow and your lymphatic system. Inverting helps make it easier for your heart to pump blood from your lower body to the heart and then to your brain. This increases oxygen to your brain and may help slow the deterioration of your brain. It also helps even more with the circulation of your lymphatic system, which has no pump like your heart and depends 100% on the contractions of muscles and gravity to flush out harmful toxins from your body.
- Helps improve posture by putting your body in line with gravity
- Help get rid of vericos veins by helping to remove the blood from extremeties and increase blood flow.
- Can increase your flexibility
- Can help build and develope your core muscles
Finally, one more advantage of an inversion table is that using it can help you reduce stress levels significantly. By inverting, you allow your whole body to stretch very effectively while relaxing, allowing you to concentrate or even meditate and truly relax after a stressful day or workout.
Day 2 was even better than day one. I wasn’t nervous at all about how to use or how to adjust the inversion table. I did make one slight adjustment so I could more easily invert 100%, as per the instructions which I left attached to the table (it’s always best practice to leave those attached to the table to make it easy for others to make these adjustments and just in case you have forgotten them, but you can also find inversion table instructions for most brands online in case something happened to yours). Basically, I adjusted the roller hinge to the top or ‘A’ setting, which is the most responsive setting and is suggested for those who do want to fully invert. I was tempted to only invert about 70 degrees again, but decided that since everything went so well on my first attempt that I would leave it open for me to try full inversion if I so felt like it.