Lumbar muscles refer to the muscles in your lower back region, specifically around the area of your spine.
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The five back exercises below are best for targeting the lats, rhomboids and
lumbar muscles in your lower back.
With tight hip flexors, generally comes weak lower abdominals and conversely, the muscles on the opposite side, the
lower lumbar muscles and the glutes get weakened and can't do what they are meant to do.
To prevent straining
the lumbar muscles and ligaments you need to increase the flexibility of the lumbar spine.
This is important as ¹ research by Jinger Gottschall PhD from The Pennsylvania State University, PA shows that abdominal and
lumbar muscles are activated more in exercises that require simultaneous activation of the deltoids (shoulders) and glutes.
Contract your stomach muscles and you naturally contract
these lumbar muscles and visa versa.»
Once you've bent over, pause, then straighten up (using
your lumbar muscles) until you are standing erect again.
Good morning lift (sometimes called «barbell good morning») is a compound lower back exercise that works not only
the lumbar muscles, but also the buttocks and hamstrings.
However, for beginners who might not have strong lower backs or who lack the ability to strongly recruit
their lumbar muscles, machine rowing is a good way to begin back training.
In this super ab routine, you will target all areas of the mid-section: rectus abdominus (the six pack), internal and external obliques, transverse abdominus (the deep muscle that act as a corset pulling in your lower belly and supporting your lower back), erector spinae muscles (muscles which line the spine) and
lumbar muscles (muscles of the lower back).
As a result, the deadlift recruits many muscles in addition to
the lumbar muscles: the latissimus dorsi, the glutes, the hamstrings, and the quads.
You'll see machines at the gym for the hyperextension exercise, but the position can be uncomfortable, and it is difficult to contract
the lumbar muscles from this position.
It is an organically bound arsenical compound that is given by injection in
the lumbar muscles of the back.