Lower back pain during ab exercises?

[Anonymous]

Crunches, plank, whatever, I could keep doing them a lot more unless I wouldn't feel like being stabbed in the lower back in the process.

What's causing that pain? Is there a correct or incorrect way how to do them? Or is it something to suck up and to deal with for those exercises?

Also although I'm naturally thin all over, there is a little layer of fat over my stomach covering them, which is another problem.

Any tips?

[lace1228]

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=qioFG_14KLw&feature=relmfu

listen to what he say's about form it is so important to listen to your body if it starts to sag then you have to stop. you can do some serious damage in your back. You don't need to be a super hero and push yourself to the extreme. strengh comes over time and all you should be doing to trying to add a couple of seconds once in a while.

[rachiee]

It can be a few things. You may have injured it somehow, even if it wasn't with the lower back. Have you ever had back trouble/pain? Have you just started doing these exercises? Also, form can be a big part of it but since its a variety of exercises, I'd say its probably something else.

[rachiee]

Meant to say it might have been injured even if it wasn't by doing ab exercises*

[MrFlirtatious1992]

If you do weights, you might have injured it while doing a deadlift or any exercise that involves you bending at the waist. I have a slight pain in my left part of my lower back and it was due to this. I don't get any pain doing ab exercises though. Go see the doc