How to strengthen your back with simple exercises

11 August, 2012

Back pain is a common problem nowadays, due to desk-bound work culture that requires long hours of sitting on a chair and working with a crained neck. Back pain causes discomfort in doing daily activities and is a common problem for most of the population worldwide. Almost 80% of the world's population suffers from this problem.

BACK PAIN can affect people of any age group, but it is more common in adults between the age group 35 and 55 years. Injury to any other part of the body, you can have at least one way to be comfortable. But if you have a back injury - even simply standing or sitting will cause pain, which is why establishing the root cause of pain is even more difficult.

The risk factors that trigger back pain are stress, sedentary lifestyle, anxiety, depression, smoking, obesity, gender (more common in females), strenuous physical work and pregnancy.

So, it is very important to avoid back injuries and weakness, and this is possible with some basic exercises that strengthen and stretches one's back. The back pain exercises will work on rhomboids, the dorsa and trabs, reports website indiainteracts.

Doing this exercise is very easy, you have to just retract your shoulders and bring both the scapulae together and fuse for about five seconds. This is considered as one rep, in one set you have to do five reps each of about five seconds duration.

You can even do this exercise in a sitting position. Whenever you feel that your back is becoming weaker then you can perform this exercise. Keep yourself fit by doing these simple exercises and stay away from back pain.