06/10/2026
If you’re hypermobile and your lower back hurts during ab workouts, (but you feel NOTHING in your abs!)
Here’s how to improve it.
First, we want to set up the abs for success to activate correctly during core exercises.
Exhale first
bring your ribs down
and lightly tuck your pelvis (neutral position) so they’re stacked. Now try your core exercise without losing that position.
If we’re in a rib flare, keeping the abs in this overstretched position inhibits them. Dropping the rib cage down puts them into a mechanically more optimal position to be able to activate the core correctly.
This also helps direct our intrabominal pressure to the right places.
Our bodies also respond well to tactile feedback, so you can put your hands above the hip bones to feel and help the deep core activate during exercises like a deadbug.
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