What are the five best exercises to do to strengthen your lower back? What kind of workouts or stretching should you do if your back is currently in pain? We talk about that and more in this episode.
In This Episode:
- Pretty much everyone at some point in their life will experience some back pain. We talk about the different types of back pain that can afflict someone.
- A muscular pain is most likely from some form of lifting. To prevent this focus on some of the simple mechanics we break down in this episode:
- Get your center of gravity as close to the object as you can and keep the object as close as you can
- Lift with your gluts and keep your chest up
- Squeeze your abs
- We discuss how the spine can be the source of back pain.
- This can come from bad form over time
- Make sure you are stretching
- We talk about what happens when you back “goes out.”
- When we’re looking at things like osteoporosis, spinal degeneration and replacing disc material, we’ve covered this on the hydration episode and a couple others, the best way for the body to rebuild disc material is through osmosis.
- What is the role of exercise after one has hurt their back? We will unpack that in this episode.
- Top 5 exercises for low back pain:
- Glute Bridges
- Bird Dog
- Plank
- Side plank
- Abdominal Drawing in Maneuver
- We also discuss abdominal crunches and how many people improperly compensate during this exercise.
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