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Back Exercises For Strengthening Your Back and Preventing Back Pain

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Last updated: 2021/03/23 at 4:45 PM
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Doing these exercises for the back on a regular basis will help strengthen your back and reduce your risk for a back injury. PHOTO via @YouTube/21 March 2021
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Exercises for the back exercises may help in improving posture and relieving back pain by strengthening the back muscles. It will also prevent you from getting osteoporosis.

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Doing these exercises on a regular basis will help strengthen your back and reduce your risk for a back injury. PHOTO via @YouTube/21 March 2021

Exercises for the back can also be called upper back exercises. These are usually done to tone the upper back muscles and get a better posture. They strengthen the back muscles and build stability in them.

This gives support to the spine and prevents it from getting injured or degenerated. It will also prevent you from getting osteoporosis.

Back exercises may provide relief to people with low back pain. However, they will not resolve the problem. You need to make sure that you do exercises for the back correctly. Otherwise, it will not give you the desired results.

For instance, you will have no benefit if you stretch the spine too much or perform exercises that involve sudden movements.

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Exercises for the back exercises may help in improving posture and relieving back pain by strengthening the back muscles. It helps develop a balance between the front and the side sides of the body. But if you over-exercise it, then you may incur more problems than you had to begin with.

Exercises for the lower back will help strengthen the lower back muscles. These include the lumbar region of your spine, which includes the muscles and joints of the lower back. It is a very important region because it supports your spinal cord, which carries all the nerves that run from the brain to the various organs of the lower body.

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This enables your organs to function properly, and it keeps your body posture correct. It also minimizes the risks of a lower back injury.

Exercises for the back are helpful to strengthen your spine and keep it healthy. But it is essential to do these exercises correctly so that you won’t over-exert yourself and cause yourself discomfort. 

Backward extension, or lying on your back with your knees and hips bent and your upper body extended towards the ceiling, is one of the simplest exercises for the back.

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Other back exercises include using a small ball under your chest while sitting, raising your buttocks toward your feet while keeping your upper body straight, and exercising with an abdominal muscle contraction.

Back exercises may also help in reducing lower back pain and tension. These include exercises like the hanging leg raises exercise, the single knee to chest stretch, and the hip flexor stretch. All these exercises help stretch out the lower back and strengthen the muscles supporting it.

You can also stretch your spine out by lying on your back and pulling your shoulder blades towards your buttocks until they are close to your shin. Then pull your shoulder blades towards the other side and pull them back toward your buttocks.

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Do this in a slow and controlled manner to stretch out your lower back toward the floor and strengthen your shoulders and upper back.

Finally, you can do a series of static back exercises that strengthen your muscles around your spinal column. You should start by lying flat on your back with your hands behind your head. With your knees bent, lift your ribs off the ground by bending your elbows.

Hold this position for five breaths, allowing each breath to rise in a deep, measured rhythm as you breathe in.

Next, release the air from your lungs as you exhale. Repeat these two times.

You don’t have to do these exercises every day; however, doing them several times a week will help to strengthen your back muscles and prevent back pain. In addition, by increasing your activity level, you will burn more calories than if you stayed sedentary, which will improve your overall health and help prevent back pain.

By practising good posture, you will not only improve your appearance, but your entire health will improve as well.

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Some other back exercises include the rope face down, abdominal crunches, and the long arm raise. All of these exercises stretch out the lower back, upper and lower shoulder blades, and abdomen muscles. The rope face down exercise stretches out the lower back, allowing it to hang from the floor.

This exercise works the sides of the spine as well as the lumbar spine, or the lower back in the front. Abdominal crunches are another way to work out the abs and work the obliques, or the side muscles.

Longarm raise exercises stretch out the front and side of the spine, while also working the obliques. The long arm raise also helps to strengthen the muscles of the upper back and shoulders. To stretch out the spine, a seated forward bend is useful.

Doing these exercises for the back on a regular basis will help strengthen your back and reduce your risk for a back injury.

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