The Best Back Pain Strengthening Exercises Ever!

Back from the gym and I’m feeling incredible.  I just did some of the best back pain strengthening exercises ever!  No joke.  I started out on the squat or Smith machine.  Normally, you may want to do a light warm-up on the treadmill or exercise bike just to get your blood flowing before you partake in any kind of lower back pain or back pain strengthening exercise.  In fact, just about every fitness expert out there would recommend it.  I prefer to do my warm ups on the Smith machine itself.  I do this just by doing a back pain exercise at an extremely light resistance.  I find this to be pretty harmless plus it also draws blood right away to the muscles you want to target namely the quads, pelvic muscles and lower back.

After a good warm-up, it is also good to stretch.  Even though I may seem like someone who devalues stretching, I hold it to be a critical component of my back pain strengthening exercise routine.  I always stretch in between sets.  One of the best stretch exercises you can do in between a set of squats on the smith machine is to just reach up with both hands and hang from one of the metal bars that makes up the frame of the Smith machine itself.  I love to do this to really stretch out my lower back.   Another good stretch exercise is to just squat down like a catcher for a baseball team.  This will stretch out your quads and the muscles of your pelvis as well as the lower back.

So after about 4 sets of squats–using a 45 lb weight and a 10 lb weight (a 25 lb weight with the last set) on each end–I was pretty tired.  Next I did some leg extensions to work my quads.  I did about 3 sets of these while once again practicing different stretching exercises.

And that’s it.  I finished with some light cardio walking on a treadmill.  Today my legs are pretty sore but that’s ok.  It is a good sore.  The tingling and numbness in my right thigh is GONE!!!!

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