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How Can I train My Abs without lower-back pain?
The most important thing about performing Abdominal exercises for core strength is the quality of movement versus the number of repetitions. It's imperative to ensure proper form by keeping your neck supported and aligned with your upper body. When contracting your abdominal muscles beyond a couple of inches, you are wasting motion, and causing extension of the back, which could lead to pain in the spine area. Controlling your movement is imperative. Stability and balance increase your core strength, which is of the utmost importance for preventing back pain or injury.
The Neck Saver - Ab Isolator is a simple, yet genius piece of workout equipment. A specially designed support brace that is made to ensure proper form when training abs. It helps with target training the core and maintains spinal alignment to prevent neck and back pain. It can be utilized when completing sit-ups, crunches and similar abdominal exercises or even to assist with yoga, pilates, and stretching.
About Working Your "Core"
Prior to beginning any exercise routine, it's a good idea to consult a physician. Chances are that if you're reading this, you're motivated to get in shape. You may have recently joined a gym, hired a personal trainer, or purchased some new workout equipment. You've probably been diligent about working out regularly and reading up on new exercises and trends.
You've also probably noticed that many workouts today claim to "work your core". Among the buzzwords you hear constantly are "core strength" and "core workouts". Supposedly "working your core" will slim down your mid-section and give you the six-pack you've been dreaming of.
What does "core" refer to exactly? The muscles around your trunk and pelvis. There are many. In a perfect system, "working your core" is supposed to lead to better balance and stability, whether on the playing field or in daily activities.
Because of this trend, you may be trying all sorts of cool exercises with medicine balls, and yoga balls, twisting and rotating and leg lifting. But before you know it, you may begin to feel some tightness around your middle and back.
Stop right there. The truth is that, unfortunately, many of the exercises that work your core can be harmful to your back. When performing core-targeting exercises, the key muscles involved must work together in a very balanced way, in an almost perfect system.
In reality most of our bodies are imperfect systems, and there are a number of factors and barriers that interfere with our biomechanics.