How Exercise Can Help With Lower Back Pain

When dealing with lower back pain one of the last things you want to do is exercise but that may be exactly what is needed. Lower back pain sometimes is caused by a weaken core that can no longer support your body to keep it stable and sturdy. We provide some exercise routines to help rid you of lower back pain once and for all.

**Please remember to warm up and stretch properly before doing any physical activity.

Examples of Exercises to Work Your Lower Back and Abdominals

Prim and Proper With Perfect Posture

Do you remember your parents always telling you to sit up straight? Well, that is exactly what I am telling you to do now. Sit up straight and tense your abdominal muscles you should almost immediately feel some relief in your back. Slouching over actually puts a lot of pressure on your back and over time can cause you great pain. It sounds dumb but sitting up straight might be the best exercise for improving your lower back strength.

Work Your Abs

There are tons of abs routines that range from just squeezing your muscles to doing sit-ups with weights. I suggest doing calm and slowly repeated abs without much jerking or pouncing. Find a few abs exercises that you like and do them at least a few times a week.

Having strong abs will help support your back muscles. In fact, back muscles and your abdominal muscles are closely linked. If you have strong abs you likely have a strong back.

Dead Lifts or Weightless Toe Touches

Either with weight or without stand tall with your feet about shoulder with apart. Slowly bend at the waist looking straight the whole time and attempt to touch the floor and then slowly recoil back up. Do this for 10 to 20 reps.

Back Sit Up

These are similar to sit ups but in reverse. For a person with back problems I suggest doing the beginner version which is lay on your stomach with your hands behind your head and raise your head up bending backwards and then slowly coming back down. Do this for 10 to 20 reps.

The more advanced version is to hang off a bench or your bed at your waist while someone holds your feet and you bend at the waist to the floor and back up again. This is likely way too much for a person with back pain to handle.

Walking or Jogging

The Pounding of jogging may not be ideal but jogging does a great job of strengthening ones back. If jogging is not possible then a steady walk or an up tempo walk will suffice. Basically, any sport is good for lower back strength because they all work your belly in different ways.