Lower Body Workouts With a Bad Back

There are a number of ways you can mess your back up and not be able to work out and do things like say, squats and dead lifts. Surprisingly enough, you can still work your lower body out with a bad back. The simple steps are to be followed carefully. Keep in mind, I'm only concerning soreness and light injury that won't be strained any further in the following steps. If you're back is really out, or damaged, I recommend you see a specialist.

Yeah, sadly that picture isn't me. I don't have tattoos and my Chuck's are black.

  So if you end up with a bad back, and can't work out, you have plenty of options. I've personally discovered a number of them when my back went out a while back due to a muscular injury and I could not do much that involved my lower and mid back supporting my upper body with more than ninety pounds. So what did I do? I used light weight and did things that you can only do with light weight.

   For instance, regular squats. If you're not much of an endurance specialist in your work outs, give it a try if you ever get in a bad situation with your back or something. Do a few hundred body weight squats. Also pistol squats, they build muscle and teach your body balance and control.

   Jumping squats as well, jumping lunges. Find a field at the park or something, and just jump across it until you literally can't move your body any more. Take a rest, and do it again.

   These are high circuit exercises that don't offer too much stress for your back to deal with. You can maintain a strong and toned lower body during the time of a not so bad back injury with exercises that don't require any kind of weight transfer into your shoulders.

   I will say that it takes time to get used certain exercises, but all in all, they really do work until you can go back to the gym to snort and groan and throw plates all over the place.

   So yes indeed, it is possible to get a good lower body workout with a bad back. You just have to look around at exercises and think until you find the right ones that leave you sore.