Hey there!

Ahhh the lower back. We hear this all the time "I threw my back out"...."I can't move because of my back"...."My lower back hurts every morning"....and so on and so on...

Sure...sometimes people have lower back issues that I can't really address. Vertebrae issues, bulging discs, degenerative discs, stenosis, fractures or any issue that pretty much has to do with the bones of your spine. BUT...good news is a lot of people don't deal with the issues above and most of their issues can be fixed with using and activating muscles you didn't even know were there. Take a look at the picture below...your "lower back" (or what most consider their lower back) has relatively no major muscle and almost all fascia (connective tissue that holds stuff in place..aka the white stuff). 

What we do see is that we have A TON of muscle AROUND our lower backs...with one of them being the biggest muscle in our body, the glutes. The glutes have 3 subdivisions...your glute max, glute med and glute min. They all allow the hips to perform different functions and ranges of motion. They also allow the lower back to do its thing while they do their thing. If they can't do their thing, the lower back then tries to do their thing. When the lower back tries to do their thing...bad things happen (aka you waking up each morning moaning and groaning about a sore lower back).  

The glutes SHOULD be one of your strongest muscles (if not THEE strongest)...so...they are built to help in a lot of areas in life. If they can't help out, are too tight to help out or are too weak to help out...yup...the lower back tries to do that which is NAHT a good thing (aka we're gonna have some problems). 

Now...doing these 5 exercises I've laid out in this video below is not the end all be all. Heck, it may not even work for you. This is just a little protocol thats worked well for me over the years and its worked well for A LOT of my clients so I'd thought I'd share it with all of you. 

If your lower back hurts all the time, gives you hell when you wake up in the morning or something of that nature...take 15 minutes of your day to watch this and TRY to fix yourself. If you don't, then it seems like you don't care about your body and I don't know what else to tell ya! Have a great day!