Although lower back pain can stem from MANY different issues and there are MANY different solutions, research has indicated that a lot of people with lower back pain often tend to have issues with lower back strength and neuromuscular control. And that improving strength and coordination with lower back strengthening exercises seems to be an effective intervention to prevent and reduce the lower back pain they experience. Unfortunately, most people who attempt to do so go about it the wrong way, worsening the situation. In this video, find out how to get a strong low back with the top 4 best lower back exercises. I’ll also be detailing a full lower back workout routine with these lower back exercises, so do stick around if you want to find out how to fix lower back pain correctly and safely.
First off, before diving into the specific lower back strengthening exercises, we need to cover two compound exercises that should definitely be a staple in your weekly routine – squats, and deadlifts. These have not only been shown to be highly effective for lower back strength and hypertrophy but are also easy to overload with weight to continue adequately challenging the lower back muscles over time. However, there are problems. First, not everyone does them. Secondly, a lot of people don’t perform these relatively heavy enough to actually provide enough stimulus to their lower back. And lastly, multiple studies have also indicated that without proper stabilization of the pelvis, the much larger and stronger hamstring and glutes often tend to take over and do most of the back extension work instead.
Therefore, you’ll want to include the following exercises for lower back: the back extension and the bird dog. Back extensions fill in the gap perfectly by stabilizing the pelvis such that the lower back can be better activated and strengthened to a much greater degree than other exercises, which it’s been consistently shown to do so. And although high loading of the back extensors as we’ve previously done is an ideal way to strengthen them, research shows that an additional exercise that demands more stability is required to selectively recruit individual muscles that play a greater role in stabilizing the lower back. That’s the bird dog; it also manages to elicit greater activation of the lower back stabilizer muscles with minimal spinal compression.
So, here’s what I’d recommend as an appropriate lower back workout. Multiple papers have shown that even for well-trained individuals, adding in just one lower back exercise 1-2 times per week was able to quickly and significantly increase lower back strength. Therefore, what I’d suggest is that if you’re currently able to squat and deadlift weekly with free weights, then you’d likely just need to throw in the 2 additional lower back strengthening exercises just once per week. Whereas if you’re unable to do squats and deadlifts or don’t go very heavy with them, you can opt to do these more often (2x a week).
There you have it: you now know how to get a strong lower back. Regardless of how you set it up though guys, by including these exercises in some fashion within your current regimen, you’ll be able to boost your lower back strength significantly, potentially fix lower back pain, and minimize the risk of you developing lower back weaknesses or imbalances overtime. But at the same time, you need to be sure that you’re not unknowingly overlooking other areas of your body as well. And that’s exactly why within my Built With Science programs, I’ve taken the time to carefully select each and every exercise included in your weekly training routines such that you can build muscle and lean down while actually improving your posture and correcting your muscle imbalances in the process. And to find out what science-based program best suits you and your body, take the analysis quiz below:
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Filmed by: Bruno Martin Del Campo
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STUDIES:
LOWER BACK PAIN PREVALENCE
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17445733?dopt=Abstract
CAUSES OF LOWER BACK PAIN
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20091596
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19185272
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17978666
LOWER BACK PAIN MUSCLE IMBALANCE
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6037821/
DEADLIFTS AND SQUATS FOR LOWER BACK STRENGTH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18296961
PELVIS STABILZATION
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2532867
EMG STUDY OF MULTIFIDUS
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25025322
TRAINING VOLUME AND LOWER BACK STRENGTH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2532867
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10671188.1958.10612978?journalCode=urqe17
