How’s Your Back Feeling?

You’re a college student on campus! You’re on your way to class, back pack loaded with books and all your social networking devices, then you’re sitting through the class, and you do it over and over for hours! How’s your back feeling by the end of the day? Does it hurt? Is it sore? Stiff? Don’t want to admit it because of your youth that you suffer from back pain? 80% of adults in America suffer from back pain, so you are not alone! Have we got the solution for you! Double Impact Fitness’s moving forward through purpose and destiny in their “ I Got Your Back”™ program! By utilizing your amazing young minds with your challenging schedules, it’s time to work through your mind and body and alleviate back pain! “ I Got Your Back”™! is a series of exercises which include strength, flexibility ,balance and tone working from the very core of your body. How do you find time for it? You make time!

Here are a few tips to alleviate the back pain in a short period of time.

1. At the end of the day, lie on the floor place your feet on the bed, or on a chair for a few minutes! (10mins) Be sure the back of your knees are “hugging” the bed and or chair so that your spine is completely straight along the floor. Keep your arms close to your body next to each hip and relax your shoulders. This position helps to decompress the spine and to begin the alleviation of the back pain!
   
   
2. Bring both knees into the chest, that helps to stretch the low back where most people carry their stress from back pain, however, if you happen to carry it in the upper back, come onto all fours after the initial decompression and go into the feline (cat) stretch to flex and extend the spine which is great for relaxation as well. Repeat 3 to 5 times.
   
   
3. Thirdly, lie down on the floor on your back, place the soles of the feet together, relax the upper back and shoulders along the floor, bind the hands around the feet and rotate the head from side to side. This helps to relieve neck pain. Roll from one ear to the other to increase flexibility placing each ear on the floor. See if your chin can touch your shoulder. This is an indicator of your neck flexibility. Repeat 3 to 5 times. Remember your spirit needs quiet time to reflect on your day and to spend time in gratefulness and love. Allow your mind to relax and give it all to GOD.

Nameste ‘ ( I bow to you).

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