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QUESTION:
I usually do Step, cardio kickboxing workout regularly.
Recently I did some bodysculpting exercise using weights.
I don't know when or how exactly I have hurt my lower back
but now it hurts even when I try to do normal Step/cardio
kickboxing workout. I feel the pain in my lower back too much
to continue for an hour. Its just at the center of my lower back
just above my butts.
This is frustrating me very very much since I love workout
and would like to return back to my normal schedule soon.
However I am not getting this pain during sitting or normal
activities. Its like I start Step/or other workouts and the
pain is there again. I have stopped lifting weights as precaution.
It would be of great help if anybody can give me advice or tips
how I can avoid this back pain an dhow I can get back to my normal
routine. Since its normally not there,I must be doing something
wrong during Step or other aerobics that starts the pain again.
Pls help me with some advice. I also want to resume bodysculpting
using weights after some time but this time in correct way.
What I should/shouldn't do while lifting weights so that I don't
injure my back again?
ANSWER:
It's impossible to say what you should or shouldn't be doing to prevent
the pain, since you don't even know what you did to hurt it in the first
place and can't identify a particular move that brings it on. Likewise,
it's impossible to say what kind of resistance exercise you can do that
won't aggravate it.
I found some pretty decent information on lower back pain on www.drkoop.com
and advice on exercises to strengthen the lower back. Either my back got
better over the last 2 weeks, or the exercises did something.
One other thing, I was accustomed to falling asleep reading on the couch,
and knowing there is no way to prevent that :-), I took the advice on that
website and put a pillow under my knees while lying on my back. That way
there was less stress on my back if I did fall asleep, and I'll be damned,
it helped somewhat. I think my problem is more related to little or no
motion of my back while sleeping. I would (and still do, but much less)
wake up with a lower back pain, bad enough that I can't bend over, and it
will "work itself out" after about 1/2 hour and I have no back pain at all.
Then I go to bed and the whole daily process starts over.
I exercise (lift, treadmill, stationary bike) everyday, and it's just not
fair that this happens to a 42 year old guy! :-)
Anyway, the back strengthening exercises did help a lot.
I to have lower back problems, to the point in which I couldn't walk barely
for some time, and after everything that was possible for me to try to *cure
it* I now know it isn't possible to cure, however, THE ONLY way to get back
to normal was simply through a regimen of stomach crunches as these do
strengthen the lower back muscles and with this, and how I now watch myself
sit, walk, bend, etc, I am no longer in any pain.
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