Sciatica Pain

How often should you do your exercises?

CrossFit training with wall ball

The type of exercise will dictate how many times you do it per day.

Why this matters:

When you’re following a pain relief program, every action should be focusing on one of three things: reducing/abolishing your pain, prevention, and correct movement.

You’ll notice the exercises designed to reduce your pain are actually able to in fact do its job within a few repetitions. Something like a backbend or a forward bend. If the exercise/movement reduces your pain, you should be doing them as often as possible. Especially when you have a flare up of symptoms.

Exercises to prevent pain are more stretches to prevent tightness and strengthening exercises to weaken inactive muscles. Examples include a glute bridge or a lunge. You can do these movements once a day.

The third set of exercises is correcting movement. Not only will you do these exercises once a day, but also think about doing them sitting/rising from a chair, or picking something up from the ground. Practice makes perfect.

Action steps:

Look at your current routine. Evaluate how often you’re doing it. Do you need to do them more or less?