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> but it hurts even more when exercising (back hurts, RSIs, etc)and so people don’t exercise and they protect their body like it is glass.

100% this. Whenever I've had longer breaks from strength training, clocking in the kind of hours I do in a desk chair eventually gets me to back pain, Aeron chair be damned.

The only thing that works for me then is to hit the weights; squats and deadlifts to be specific. Obviously not doing 1 rep max, relatively high rep range (8-12).

- Week 1: muscle soreness is horrible.

- Week 2: muscle soreness is quite OK and the regular back pain is all but gone.

- Week 3 onwards: gravy.