Low Back Pain and Working Out (IMPORTANT!!)

Strengthen your low back once and for all by training like an athlete
Let’s face it, working out with low back pain or after a lower back injury is almost impossible. With your lumbar spine located so close to your center of gravity, virtually every exercise you do will travel through or have an impact on your low back. This makes training and lifting weights either painful or simply nonproductive, unless you start training your back right.
In this video, I show you the most important concept you must adopt if you want to not only overcome your lower back injury but start working out like you did before getting hurt. In order to lift heavy weights again (and it is possible) you need to be sure that you are taking a two step approach to your back rehab and training.
First, you must make sure to work long and hard on improving the stamina of your lower back muscles. The most effective way to do this is to concentrate on including variations of the classic hyperextension exercise that I show you. Of course, the name is incorrect, as you don’t need to actually hyperextend but rather extend your back from a flexed position to recreate the normal lumber curvature.
From here, you have to work on asymmetrically loading your back while in extension. You can do this by holding a dumbbell in one hand and trying not to let it rotate your body in that direction. Durations of 1-2 minutes should be the goal here as you work to gradually increase the stamina of the muscles in your lower back.
Low back pain is common in almost everyone that lifts at some point. How quickly you bounce back from it and how often it recurs are critical. If you have to have surgery because of it, or even metal implantation for stabilization then you cannot afford to overlook the importance of the sequencing that I’m covering for you here.
After you build up your low back muscle endurance in a single workout then you need to start increasing the frequency each week that you train your lower back. Aim for up to 4-5 times per week for a very stabile back.
Finally, when you have enough stability in your back it’s time to focus on building up your lower back strength to prevent low back pain from returning. It’s critical that you take baby steps as you work back to your previous lifting weights. Convince your back that you are in command of every weight you lift and then (and only then) will your back give you the permission to do so.
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