GET BACK NO TRACK

Regardless of whether you’re a fitness newbie or a seasoned athlete, sooner or later, you will tweak your back. MAXIM fitness guru ALEXA TOWERSEY gives us the lowdown on how to bulletproof your rear side…

If you’re familiar with fitness mags, you will have seen your fair share of the same 1,000-word odes to body-part training, complete with titles like “Pump Those Pecs”, “Add Inches to Your Arms” and everyone’s favourite rhyming simile “Build Shoulders Like Boulders!” I know I’ve written a fair few, and you’ve probably read them, because let’s be honest — this is the sexy stuff that promises you a flock of beautiful babes at the beach. What’s not as sexy, and therefore rarely written about, is the lower back — even though it’s often the weakest link. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW The lower back is like any other muscle – if it’s being worked, it gets tired. If you do a bunch of lunges, chances are your legs will feel fatigued and…

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MAXIM New Zealand (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2022

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