5 Exercises For Lower Back Pain

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5 Exercises For Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain is no joke, friends. This often chronic pain affects the majority of people (80% or more) and it can significantly impair your quality of life. To combat the pain, we all need to introduce mobility and back-strengthening exercises into our routines.

That’s why we called on our resident Pilates expert, Jenavieve Adams, to show us a few moves. As she puts it, to strengthen and support the lower back, it's crucial to focus on exercises that enhance our flexibility, build strength, and improve stability.

Here are five effective exercises that target the lower back,

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Why We Get Lower Back Pain & How To Fix Yours

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Why We Get Lower Back Pain & How To Fix Yours

A few weeks ago, I woke up with a severe pain in my hip (or at least, I thought it was my hip at the time). My hip was so tight and felt like it was totally locked up. Having dealt with hip pain before. I tried every tool in my arsenal to heal it—I stretched, I slept on a wooden ball (no, I’m not kidding), iced it, took baths, everything. But nothing got better until I went to my chiropractor… and it turns out, I was treating the wrong area. My back was the issue, not my hip.

This experience got me thinking about back pain—specifically lower back pain—and how incredibly common it is, especially as we age.

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