Just like any other sport or fitness program, your muscles will be sore from a capoeira workout. Sometimes you discover muscles you didn’t know you had because you never used them before you started practicing the art of capoeira. Beginners usually complain from back pain, mostly caused by the attempt to learn how to ginga – the most fundamental movement and the first you will learn as a beginner.

The best way to reduce the possibility of back pain is to train the ginga correctly. Beginners often suffer from sore back muscles because they tend to overbend at the hips, making their upper body extend past their knees. A capoeirista is taught to ginga low, something that beginners have a hard time doing. Staying low is accomplished by bending at the knees, and keeping your feet well apart. Instead, a novice will try to lower their bodies by bending their backs.

To prevent capoeira back pain it is best to ask your capoeira master the proper posture your back should keep while practicing the ginga. This is not to say that your back muscles aren’t used in any other way in capoeira. In fact, capoeira is so dynamic you tend to use your most of muscles for different moves that require strength, flexibility and balance.

*note – we are not medical experts and we do not intend for this information to replace the advice of a medical expert or physician.