Abstract
Whether you suffer from lower back pain or merely wish to improve your fitness odds are you have been told to build up your abdominals. While the abdominals are important, studies have shown that the often ignored spinal extensors (your back muscles) are at least as important (BieringSorensen, 1984; Luoto et al., 1995). Yet, most people do not know how to train these vitally important muscles. Think for a second about your upright posture e or lack thereof! It is easy to become slouched, stooped, or slumped. After all, we tend to sit way too much. The most popular abdominal exercise is the sit-up which actually makes us bend forward even more. Scientific investigations have discovered that normally our back muscles have onethird more endurance than our abdominals. But, in back pain patients this endurance is equal to the abdominals. So the message from the latest scientific evidence is clear e to protect your back strengthen it! Besides helping low back pain, spine extensor training is an ideal way to build up bone density in the spinal column of pre-menopausal women. In fact, whereas sit-ups have been shown to be dangerous for osteoporotic women, back extensor exercises have been shown to be safe. Here are a few excellent trunk extensor exercises that you can perform with a gymnastic ball.
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