What is overtraining and how often should I workout?
What is overtraining and how often should I workout?
The simple answer to this question is overtraining is repeating exercises or body parts to often. Overtraining leads to injury, lower immune systems, chronic fatigue and a number of other negative responses.
Too often I see people repeating routines and exercises on a daily basis and complaining [...]
5 lower back exercises to help relieve pain
Lower back pain is a complaint that I hear from most of my clients when I first work with them and of course I have people often asking me how to help them with their lower back pain.
While the hours of work are becoming more and more rigorous so is the amount of pain that is placed on your back. People are spending hours sitting, driving, and on the computer which tightens up the back.
As well being a mother is another way of tightening up your upper and lower back. While breast feeding, a woman’s chest tightens rounding her shoulders and tightening her upper back. Also, picking up and holding children day in and day out will stress the back. There are so many ways of hurting the back that it is of the most importance to strengthen it!!!
Here are some lower back exercises which are geared towards helping strengthen the lower back. The lower back is part of the core of the body. It is necessary to have a strong back in every day life, activities, and major sports.
Better Body NYC suggests you 5 exercises for the lower back which can be done every other day
- Plank on forearms and toes or knees and hold as long as you can;
- Plank on your hands and toes hold keep belly zipped in gluts tight;
- Super man lye on stomach hands straight over head lift upper and lower body;
- Also on hands and knees lifting opposite arm and leg out straight;
- Hyper extension machine found at most every gym
Lower back exercises videos
In the video below you can watch Better Body NYC’s personal trainers Kate Hurwitz and Spencer Olchin doing a demonstration of those 5 exercises for lower back pain. Their goal is teach you how to relieve pain and stress and how to strength and stretch your lower back!
In this second video, posted below, you can see progressions for the superman and the side plank exercises for lower back.
Working on these exercises will definitely give you a strong lower back and ease any pain you might have! Please seek out a doctor if you are experiencing extreme lower back pain!
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