How to Do the Good Morning Exercise

Video Transcript

MICHELLE TRAPP: I'm going to show how to do the good morning exercise. This is a great, great exercise. It's going to catch low back. It's going to catch glutes. It is going to catch hamstrings. Now, it's a little bit more advanced exercise. So if you're new to exercise, I suggest you get back into the website and click on how to do superman. Superman exercise is a great beginning exercise to start with first. When you've mastered that, come on over here and we'll do the good mornings. We're going to start with the barbell in the squat rack, no weights. Start with just the bars. It's just 45 pounds or you back remember so start with no weights and eventually work yourself up small weights. You do not need a lot of weight for this exercise because, again, very taxing on the low back. You're going to come up to your squat rack to your bar, which is racked a little bit lower than shoulder height. Split stance, come up underneath your bar, place it on you back. Feet are going to be shoulder-width apart. My abs are tight, everything is solid. What I'm going to start to do now is I'm going to hinge from the waist. My back stays straight. I'm sticking my glutes out, my legs stay straight, I'm coming down until my upper body is parallel with the floor and then I'm coming back up to start again. Abs are tight. I'm not rounding my back. My back stays straight, sticking my glutes back, my legs stay straight, body parallel to the floor, and when I'm coming up, I'm squeezing my gluts and I'm pulling with my hamstrings. Inhale on the way down, exhale on the way up. Again, don't start with a lot of weight. This exercise, I like to keep it in a 10- to 12-rep range. When you're through with your reps, you're going to walk it forward. Split stance again, rack it up. That's your good morning exercise. Remember, more of an advanced exercise so start with the superman exercise that I demoed previously. You're going to start with your barbell. Keeping it on your back, core is tight hinging from the waist, no rounding in the back, keeping the back straight, leg straight, body come parallel to the floor, pulling with these, taking it back up to center. That's how you execute the good morning exercise.