Sore Back When Doing Plank

[ENP]

When I do the plank ab/core exercise, why lower back starts to hurt a bit. Once I stop the exercise it goes away.

Is this poor technique or poor lower back strength?

[runveerun]

Make sure your back is straight- not bending in the middle, use your abs to hold you up, it could be you haven't got enough strength in your core doing more planks will help this. Just build up the time slowly doing a little bit longer every week.

[yello]

Yea I found that the more I did them the less my lower back started to hurt so I think it's probably related to core strength.

[goinhard]

It could be a mild injury, after I hurt my back and thought it had healed fine for daily activities planks still hurt, tried again another 4 weeks later and their fine.

[teamfatboy]

Make sure your back is straight- not bending in the middle, use your abs to hold you up, it could be you haven't got enough strength in your core doing more planks will help this. Just build up the time slowly doing a little bit longer every week.

:ditto: - if done right you should be using almost all core... keep a straight line through shoulders/hips/ankles, rather than trying to keep eg torso parallel to floor.