Let’s Get Technical: Good Mornings

We’re back once again to bring you another blog in our Let’s Get Technical series. This week we’re going to take a look at Good Mornings. If you’d like more personal training, why not book in with one of our personal trainers at Elevate?

How it’s done

Set Up

• Comfortable stance with feet somewhere between hip and shoulder width apart
• Bar on your back in either a high bar or lower bar position 
• Place hands in a wider set up than normal 
• Pull the bar down into your back to prevent the bar being on the back of your neck
• Keep soft in the knees

Down Phase

• Take a breath in and hold 
• Raise your chest up and push your bum backwards hinging at the hips 
• Bow forward as low as you feel comfortable to do 

Muscles Action

• Concentric loads through the posterior chain (hamstrings and glutes).
• Isometric loads through the entire posterior and anterior chain controlling the body’s posture.

Up Phase 

• Reverse the position driving hips forward 
• Breathe out

Muscles Action

• Eccentric loads through the posterior chain (hamstrings and glutes).
• Isometric loads through the entire posterior and anterior chain controlling the body’s posture.

Advice

• Always maintain a neutral spine position 
• Minimise the bend at the knee, remember this is a hip dominant movement

Dan Cumberworth

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