Losing Weight and Lower Back Exercises

Losing weight helps every part of our body but particularly our lower backs when we lose fat off our stomachs. Doing lower back exercises helps us in two ways:

1) It assists the removal of fat globules off vital organs in our stomachs and

2) Losing the weight off our stomachs strengthens muscles around our rib cages that are connected to our lower backs.

Many people don't associate lower back pain and discomfort with a large protruding belly or with carrying a lot of weight around their midriff or lower stomach. Every part of our body is connected via something whether it is muscle, bone or tissue. Doing lower back exercises builds up the muscles around our rib cages that are connected to our stomach muscles. By strengthening our stomach muscles we are building stronger back muscles.

Lower back exercises need not be drastic. In fact, if you overdo these exercises you can easily rip rib muscles and believe me that hurts for days. Be gentle but firm with yourself.

Here in Australia we have a lot of slang words for big stomachs. Two of the more common ones are a beer belly or a veranda; sometimes an over-hang but whatever we call it and laugh about, it is no joke when your lower back starts to hurt. And Australia does have a high percentage of back injuries.

One of the best exercises for losing weight off the belly and exercising the lower back at the same time is as simple as walking. I don't mean walking as in a marathon but a bit more than a saunter. A gentle walk around the block or down the paddock each night to stretch out and ease tight muscles from the day will bring hours of back pain relief during the night and help lose weight.