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Most professionals will tell you that building muscle strength (especially in your core) is one of the keys to minimizing back pain.<\/p>\nMost professionals will tell you that building muscle strength (especially in your core) is one of the keys to minimizing back pain.<\/p>\n
After all, a strong, healthy and well-developed core gives you the strength you need to carry your weight.<\/p>\n
As long as you\u2019re mindful of how you move your body, it will help minimize your chance of injury.<\/p>\n
Most people talk about your \u201ccore\u201d as if it were one singular thing but it\u2019s not. In fact, your core actually contains sixteen different groups of muscles, and they\u2019re all important.\u00a0 Unfortunately, too many people rely on one or two simple exercises designed to target their core and call it done.\u00a0 Crunches are one of the most common exercises used to tone muscles in that area, and that\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n
There are a couple of different issues with crunches, and an overreliance on them might be doing as much harm as good.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s true that any form of exercise (crunches included) is of at least some benefit, crunches are a bit outdated and they only focus on your abdominals. \u00a0While your abdominals are an important part of your core musculature, they\u2019re only one of the aforementioned sixteen muscle groups.<\/p>\n
The real issue then, is that if you develop and define one specific muscle group, but don\u2019t pay attention to the others surrounding it, you\u2019re asking for trouble.<\/p>\n
Those muscle groups don\u2019t operate independently of each other, but are designed to work as a cohesive whole.\u00a0 If the other surrounding muscle groups are significantly weaker and less-developed, they\u2019re not going to be up to the same rigors that your abs can handle, and that\u2019s going to cause muscle strain, and sometimes sprains.<\/p>\n
In addition to that, it\u2019s going to impact the way you move your body in subtle ways, which can see you twisting or turning incorrectly, which can easily cause or exacerbate back pain.\u00a0 Not a happy situation.<\/p>\n
By all means, exercise!\u00a0 Just when you do so, be sure you\u2019re paying attention to all your major muscle groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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