Back Exercises and Taking Care Of Your Body

Does your back bother you?  Lower back pain starting to get you depressed?  I know back pain can take you out of commission.  The trick is to figure out what to do about it.  If your doctor is telling you nothing is wrong.  And if your physical therapist can’t help, what do you do?

Back Exercises just might be your answer.  But before you start any back exercises you should make sure you know what part of the back you want to exercise.  You have exercises for lower back, middle back, and upper back.  However, there is something else you should be concerned with when you start to exercise your back.  You don’t want to do more harm than good.  And that’s your abs.

Before you start any back exercise program you should seriously start an ab exercise program.  You abdominal muscles need exercise too.  In fact, your back pain might be caused by weak abs.  In the beginning of any basic back exercise program, half the time should be spend on your abs.  If you don’t, you won’t get the full benefit of your back exercises and you might give up, because you are not getting results.

You can get basic back exercises or advance back exercises and the same with you abdominal exercises.  But before you start you should talk to your doctor to make sure you don’t harm yourself more.  If your doctor tells you it’s ok, then you need to start properly.  The first thing you should do, is research.  Online or at your book store.  I like online because it’s free.  But you might want to have a book to refer to. 

After you know a little bit about back exercises and abdominal exercises, you should decide on the time of day your exercise program for your back and abs will start.  How many days a week you should train.   Most experts tell you, every other day, is good.  However there are people that tell you everyday is ok, if you do it right. 

Be sure to start at the basic level and work to the advance.  Most people quit exercise programs because they go out and buy a workout video and it’s just to hard to do what they are doing on your TV screen.  So, please, start slow even if you are in good shape.  It’s all about quality not quantity.

Warm up before you start any back or abdominal exercise program.  Do a gentle warm up for five or ten minutes.  Then start with your abdominals.  For the first 3 or four days just get the body back into exercise, in other words, don’t over do it.  A resource on abdominals that I recommend is Bullet Proof Abs.  It comes in a book or a video; it is very informative book and has some great exercises for your abdominals.

Then move to your back exercises.  Take the next day to rest and that will tell you if you worked to hard or to easy.  If your real soar cut your back and abs exercise down by half.  If you don’t feel anything add a few more sets.  It really takes about 3 to 4 weeks to really get the hang of exercising.

After you’re done with your work out, you need to cool down.  Do the same warm up in reverse and that is a cool down but before that you should stretch.  Back pain can also be caused by flexibility problem.  If you are new to stretching we here is a review we did on stretching and a program that meets our standards. Stretching Review Click Here.

Well we hope this will get you started on your back exercise program and abdominal exercise program.  Just start slow and work your way into any new back or ab exercises you might want to try.  The thing is they may seem very easy, then the next day you can hardly move.  Not a very good start to your exercise program.  Below we have put a link to a good resource if you are starting any workout program. 

Good Resource On Starting to Work Out