While stretching is often good- passively stretching a sore, tight, or injured area is not always the answer, and can sometimes be harmful, especially when it comes to the low back!
Low back soreness, which sometimes feels like tightness, can often be caused by too much mobility and not enough support in the low back, as well as a lack of mobility in surrounding areas, which makes extra stretching counter productive! So what can you do instead?
💜 Strengthen your core, especially your low core, with stabilizing drills. (Not a million crunches!)
💜 Strengthen your glutes and use them to stretch your hips into hip extension.
💜Work on isolating upper back mobility, especially if you’re training to increase flexibility or do pole.
If you want more explanation and some drills you can try at home, here’s a video with a few examples to help you get started!
Want more guidance on how to do these things? Join us for flexibility class, which happens 6 days a week! This class is not just passive stretching- we work on things like end range strengthening and stability so that you can increase your range of motion while preventing injury.
We recommend that everyone try out flex class, even non pole dancers, because it will help minimize pain in your day to day life.