The most common conversation I have with most people is about their lower back and how to strengthen it. Our lifestyle very much includes sitting at a narrow desk, at a dinning table, on the couch, in a car seat , on an plane seat and if the spinal postural muscles are not strong enough to support us, our repeated incorrect postures gives us unnecessary back pain.
So here is part 1 of a simple lower back strengthening series that you can practice at home under 10 mins. You can practice this literally anywhere. Since this does involve belly down posture, as always make sure you haven’t just eaten and then stepped onto the mat to practice these 🙂 Yoga poses should be practiced on an empty stomach in general, but I’ll leave that for a different post another time.
If you have a weak core, the lower back muscles tend to overcompensate and work harder than they are meant to , which in turns places a lot of stress on them, so strengthening the core would be great, however keeping the back muscles safe and strong would also prove greatly useful.
Enjoy and keep up the practice.
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