Preventing Low Back Pain While Exercising

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Ways to prevent low back pain while you exercise include the following:

• Be careful with vigorous exercises. Vigorous exercises such as running, jogging, and other forms of aerobic conditioning are good for your heart and lungs, but the regular impact of your feet hitting the ground or floor can be hard on your spine and knees. The twisting motions involved in some vigorous racquet sports put pressure on the spine just as twisting while lifting boxes does. Contact sports result in frequent back problems, and even back injuries. Alternately, swimming, stationary cycling, and brisk walking provide the advantages of aerobic exercise without additional stress on your spine.
• If you prefer vigorous forms of aerobic activity, it is extremely important for you to add stretching and flexibility exercises to your routine. If possible, do these exercises just after you finish each run or each game, when your muscles are warm. The best way to prevent back pain is to combine the advantages of conditioning, strengthening, and flexibility exercises. The exclusion of flexibility exercises could lead to more back pain than would no exercise at all.