Back advice website offers top tips to get you back on track and gardening this summer.

A recent survey found that 80% of people in the UK suffer with back pain, but despite its many health benefits, more than half of adults over 35 put their pain down to a result of the nation’s favourite pastime… gardening.

As the Government announces its calling on Britons to covet their lawns and get digging as part of a campaign to encourage two million people to be more active in advance of London’s 2012 Olympics, the specialist back advice website, www.backadvice.info is offering practical advice and tips on ways to garden your way to better health without letting your back take the strain.

Whether mowing the lawn, planting a flower border or painting the fence, gardening de-stresses the mind and provides a great workout for the whole body to boost all round wellbeing. Gardening can even rival jogging or aerobics as a full-body fitness booster. It works a number of different muscle groups, burns calories - up to 318kcals an hour - and incorporates other important elements of accepted exercise regimes, such as stretching, repetition and even resistance training.