Why does overstressing your back muscles (bad posture) make them weaker?

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Normally, if you overstress a muscle, it gets stronger. But if you have bad posture, causing you to overstress certain back muscle groups, you get back pain. Then the physio gives you exercises to “strengthen” those muscles. How does that work?

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Bad posture isn’t caused by overstressing muscles, but by underusing them to the point that they atrophy and become weaker over time.

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