Video: Lower Back Exercises for Core Training

Learn how to do lower back exercises to strengthen your core with expert tips in this free fitness video clip.

Video Transcript

Now we're going to finish off our core segment with what? Well, we've already done abdominals, what's the opposite? What is the antagonist muscle of that, the lower back. Those lower back problems that you have. Probably because you use the lower back as a stabilizer so much but you really don't focus on strengthening it, and it lacks that strength that it actually needs. Maybe you're depending too much on your lower back and not tensing those abdominal muscles when you need to so we want to work the lower back as well. This is our beginning super woman movement, since Coria is doing it. If I was doing it, it would be super man. Her hands are under her chin, what she is going to basically be doing is lifting her upper body and her lower body up, squeezing the lower back at the same time. Doing it very slowly, you don't want a jerking motion. OK, you want to treat the lower back very sensitivley because we don't want to injure it. You may not be able to move your body as well or as much as Coria, see the flexibility she has? Running track, getting those muscles firing, the muscles being used to moving in that manner, she's able to do that. So now she's showing you a more simplified way of doing it to still get those lower back muscles contracted. Sometimes it may be difficult to lift those lower legs up at the same time as you're lifting your head, then maybe you can just lift your head first, and then once you do that fifteen times you want to try to just lift your legs. So, there are variations to get what you need based on your limitations and hopefully you have few. But that is the end of our core segment.

Lower Back Exercises for Core Training

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