‘No pain, no gain',  ‘go harder, go faster, do more’. How many times have I heard this mantra when I have reluctantly attended exercise classes or even more so, the one time I enrolled in a Gym program. When I looked at the people in the classes, (instead of concentrating of doing more, going faster) I often wondered what their motivation was to put their body through so much pain and stress. 

When I was younger, in my thirties, I was training hard going to the gym and learning to become an aerobic instructor. My body was strong and fit and it was hard, which I thought was a good thing. I could not feel the numbness and pain in my body from the exercise and I did not relate my lower back pain with exercising too hard.