Ab exercises that are bad-back approved?

chokhas

brianneangell08 wrote: »

Several of you said that strengthening my core may additional help with my back. So, back to my initial question - what exercises should I do? I will continue to do planks, and I can also do Russian Twists (with a medicine ball) with no problem. It is exercises more along the lines of crunches, bicycle crunches, lying leg raises, etc that hurt.

I think you should see a doctor first. wait my the diagnosis and then do the exercise. as we do not know what is wrong the recommended stuff might actually not be good for you. for example in my Pilates class are 2 people with back problems but different ones and the trainer has to adjust their exercises or they do different ones. they are doing both different exercises and not just a bad back one.

CipherZero

Half of the people above the age of forty have at least one herniated disk and over 90% of those are asymptomatic.

In the absence of a structural defect - and even with a fair number of them - it's been my experience that a 'bad back' is a lot more likely to be a weak back. Weakness can be cured with lifting weights.

stanmann571

CipherZero wrote: »

Half of the people above the age of forty have at least one herniated disk and over 90% of those are asymptomatic.

In the absence of a structural defect - and even with a fair number of them - it's been my experience that a 'bad back' is a lot more likely to be a weak back. Weakness can be cured with lifting weights correctly.

Fixed that for you.