Yoga has been good for me. Massage is nice too. If you can’t afford it, you might try once a month, just to put things back in place.
I have an ergonomic chair. Those are costly, but there are cheaper $10 kinds of things you can put on more ordinary chairs to provide lumbar support.
Standing desks are also nice, though after a few hours you might need to pull up a drafting chair.
These are all some ideas.
BTW, from a calorie burn standpoint, Vinyasa flow yoga turns out to be be better than Bikram. That was a surprise to me, since I like Vinyasa better than sweating it out in a hot room. The motions are probably better for you too.
How often are we talking as far as doing this stretches/exercises? If we’re talking 20 min or day, I honestly don’t think it’ll happen. If like a few minutes a day - I can handle it.
The reason I say this is because working out is super important to me and yet when I get back to college, I step foot into the gym maybe once a year due to time constraints. I get ripped over the summer though, and then slowly scrwaniatize over the school year, which sucks haha. So I doubt I’ll do any exercise if I takes too much time. Feel free to yell at me for how stupid that is, I am well aware.
My college town is freaking tiny and the craigslist is really limited, but I’ll give it a shot to buy a better chair. I’ll look into the foam rollers. Bed is too expensive, I’ll get a new/good one in June when I start working/after graduation.
Now you’re just trying to make him look retarded (keep it up).
@ the OP, try supermans for 5 minutues a day… and not the ones where you stick your sheets on the girl’s back (or your roomate’s depending on how the college women treat you)
I know, right? Ridiculous lol. Plus, I guess I wouldn’t want to spend 20 minutes a day doing exercises so that my back wont become as pained by a crappy chair that is clearly doing damage to my back. I see the exercises as more of a indirect solution to my problem with the source being the thing I am sitting on. I’ll look at lumbar support for the time being, maybe throw in a few superman’s here and there, until I can find a better chair.
Others already mentioned it, but the foam roller has worked wonders for me as a treatment for current pain. Strengthening your core will help prevent future problems. Even if you don’t feel like doing direct core work, just getting some exercise will likely help. I notice my back tends to feel much worse if I miss a few workouts in a row.