Facts on strengthening lower back muscles. Calling on all couch potatoes....

May 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Wanted:

All atheletes, weekend worriors, and all couch potatoes.

Everyone regardless of the level of your physical activity, you need to have strong lower back muscles.

The extensor muscles (the muscles attached to the back of the spine) make up the muscles of the lower back: the largest of those, the erectorspinae, are the long muscles on either side of the spine.

These muscles help support us when we sit, stand and walk. Good posture relies on srong lower back muscles. So whether you are playing a professional sport or sitting at a computer desk all day, you need to make sure those lower back muscles are at their optimum health.

One crucial body part for strengthening the lower back muscles is the lower abdominal muscles. Many overweight people have the wrong idea about working out their abdomenal muscles. Since they already have a belly fat, they not only ignore this crucial part of the body for a healthy lower back muscles, but the idea of doing any Abs crunches is to make their belly fat more solid and bigger.  Well they rather lose their belly fat first.

Meanwhile the lower back muscles are weaken.

Exercising muscles is far different than building or growing muscles, or crafting the lower abdominal muscles to be part of a sixpack Abs,  and body sculpture to have a toning very define muscular body.

Exercise at first is to maintain strong muscular body, healthy and in a fit shape. before making it to the show.

Building muscles under a fat belly will only make it worse. one would have a stronger stubborn fat belly. on the other hand doing crunches as part of a workout to gain strength around the wast area is necessary to stronger lower back muscles and far from building a sixpack Abs.

Body fat test at home.
You can do it yourself right now - all you need is a cloth tape to measure different parts of your body.



Start by telling us your...

Age:      
Current Body Weight:       lbs.  
or  kg.  
Sex:      Male
Female

Waist:   in.     Stand up straight, but don't suck in your stomach. Measure the widest circumference.
Hips:   in.     Stand with your feet about 4 inches apart and measure the widest part of your hips.

For the remaining measurements use your dominant side. Measure the circumference of the areas listed below.

Forearm:  in.     Clench your fist so that your forearm is flexed. Measure the widest part between your wrist and elbow.
Calf:  in.     Place your weight on your dominant leg and measure your calf at its widest part - about half way between your knee and ankle.  
Thigh:  in.     Stand with your feet about 12 inches apart. Measure your upper thigh at the widest part.
Wrist:  in.     Measure in the dip between the bony part of your wrist and the start of your hand.  

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