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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I hate that planking is the best exercise for strengthening your lower back. They’re just so boring to do.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You can spice them up with alternating leg raises or do a superman or bird dog. There are also loads of other exercises that work. The best exercise isn't the most effective one, it's the one you actually do consistently

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    The best exercise is the one you actually do

    That’s how I finally got to exercise regularly. First, I spend way too long trying to hype myself up for running. Never happened. I hate running. No amount of convenience can convince me. Then I started hiking and yoga and swimming and whatever came my way. Sure, I don’t have any sort of routine, but I do some sport very regularly!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I did planking for about a thousand years (or so it felt) and it didn't really help at all. What did help massively was dumbbell swings! In just a couple of days my back pain was like 90% gone, totally gone today.

    I'm quite tall, so YMMV.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Agreed. Planks and cardio are my downfall because they are mind numbingly boring

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That's the best part about cardio. You can do so many other things while doing it. ... OK well, not lots of different things, but once you're past the hell of getting into a shape, you kindof just zone out into the music/podcast/video/what ever and huffpuff away for a while while entertained.

    If you go to a gym, some even have theatre rooms filled with treadmills/etc and a movie playing.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't end up pushing very hard when I do cardio that way because my attention is divided, but yeah something is better than nothing

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    It's often actually important to not go too crazy for 'just' day to day cardio. So that actually helps normally.

    Unless you're trying to specifically improve cardio, like a runner trying to improve times, mellow cardio is what you want. If you are trying to improve cardio, then definitely mind on the game doing something like intervals!

    Absent minded intense cardio is how you get heart attacks. (y'know, outside of the normal health issues that compund into them, often triggered by something 'intense')

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