![]() One of the golden age exercises for the overall hamstring development is the Good Morning. Keep legs as straight as possible to ensure you’re using mainly your hamstrings and have lower back/glutes be the secondary muscle groups worked. Top Tip: These are great for developing the outer sweep of your quad but we’re trying to focus on the hamstrings primarily. Pull through your heels and keep the bar as close as possible to your body then slowly lower weight back down to the ground.Hand placement goes on the inside of legs and lifters typically use a claw grip (one overhand and one underhand) to ensure proper hold of the bar.Set up bar on the floor and set up stance where feet are slightly turned out and wider than shoulder width apart.Keep your stance wide and the weight back ensuring you pull through your legs and not your back: these will smoke you! Allowing you to lift a little more weight than the stiff-legged deadlift, this movement is also great for the top part of the conventional deadlift finish. ![]() The sumo deadlift is also another compound movement that will blitz the glute/hamstring tie-in. Place heels on the ball and have only your shoulders on the floor and use hamstrings to pull the ball as close as possible to your body. For a similar exercise try a glute/ham raise with an exercise ball. Top Tip: This exercise is not for everyone because of its high degree of difficulty. Sets and Reps: 4 x AMAP using minimal hand support
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