Weight lifting exercise example - Good Morning

[ileet333]

Rename the title to "Injury waiting to happen"

[MegaBazboy]

poor form 

[mphof74]

Yea you keep doing that exercise. Maybe if I go to school for a chiropractor my income will come from you.

[MnNick1]

is this the back-breaker exercise? 

[mikronator]

The most dangerous exercise for the lower back.

[maeishoj]

@mikronator if done uncorrectly, yes, but so it's any! what a non-sense.

[mikronator]

@maeishoj The risk of back injury doing this exercise is significantly higher than others, even if done correctly. period. Go and argue with the scientists.

[wojtek0000]

noob.

[adamzez]

dont bend or arch ur back. do not round it. dont listen to these stupid ass comments below. keep your back straight when doing them. if you cant keep it straight, you are using too much weight. this is a dangerous workout. so its best to stay light until you are 100% sure you can move up in weight.

[RedEyePergo]

this is obviosly too heavy for you if you have to bend your knees. lighten the load and do it right.

[ethanomglolz]

@RedEyePergo noooooo if he didn't bend his knees slightly he'd fall flat on his face cause his centre of mass would be beyond his feet

[RedEyePergo]

@ethanomglolz yeah but when he bends his knees he is useing

his legs as well as back. and good mornings r a back only exercise. he is taking weight off his back wich negates the exercise partially.

[ethanomglolz]

@RedEyePergo I see what you mean, you mean he may have some thrust from his legs to lift the weight right?

oh and good mornings are not just a lower back workout, they work the whole posterior chain which includes spinal erectors, lower back, glutes and hamstrings, similar to a stiff leg deadlift, if your goal was just lower back development these are a good exercise but to do it in a way where it just works your lower back is not possible without falling over

[ethanomglolz]

@RedEyePergo but yea this isn't good form, curling your back like that is gonna pull something

[SnuffDizz]

generally the advice would be to do arched back limited range GM in the lowest range (5-3 reps ) and rounded back in the (10-6) especially if you first start out! and choosing your weight carefully, leave 2 reps in the can when rounded GM, only after a few months of consistent carefull lower bak/core hardening, should you attempt to go more explosive/low 3 reps on rounded GM, think about.

[HondaCRF1985]

you need an anterior pelvic tilt, dont hurt your back dude.

[ExtremeMetalMike]

again.... they are suited and at the end of a 2 or 3 lift meet.... i know what u mean but generally you want you spine in alignment to keep from popping or herniating a disk.... because i have seen many a person carried out of the gym on a stretcher because of a rounded back while pulling..... all i'm saying is that its not the most optimal position for your bone and muscle structure to be in

[26DeislerFCB]

lol dude complete wrong, your legs must be straight too, too much weight

[KeroroGunsouTX]

That seems like way too much weight for good mornings.

[CleverDjembe]

@KeroroGunsouTX

Buck 35? Not really.

[bombaclaat]

Coming back up too fast. Dickwad. If you don't know how to do an exercise, why are you sticking one up on YouTube? This is possibly the worst Good Morning exercise demonstration I have seen. A real good example of what NOT to do. Slow and real slow is the key to this exercise. If you don't, then your mami will be wiping your ass for a good few months.

[ExtremeMetalMike]

in powerlifting, and strong man training, among other things, you want the concentric portion (upwards) as fast as possible. it works on the speed at which you can contract the muscles and works on explosive power... if anything i would say he should be moving faster on the concentric portion. its how you learn to squat or pull big weight... you gotta start fast otherwise your never gonna lock it out and you will constantly bomb out

[TheDoggedWonder]

After Bruce Lee injured his back doing this he advised people to just lift the bar, since he felt it was more of a limbering exercise anyway.

[Rpn1984]

you dont want alot of weight on this exercise

[cschwabe33]

PATRIN07 is telling the truth that really happened

[darkblaze06]

dude ur lower back wtf

[remygo]

135 pound? lol is that a joke? I can do it in kg and im not so much heavyer...

[BloodyNine007]

Doesn't take much to injure your back. I did mine once taking an airshot at a soccer ball.

[PATRIN07]

Bruce Lee used to do this exercise but one day he greatly injured his back because he had used 135 pounds (about his own body weight) without a proper warm up. He was told he would never walk again. He experienced back pain for the rest of his life.

DO A WARM UP !!!

[PATRIN07]

Yeh, true

[WoWcheese]

pussy ass clown

[hitman9188]

What you FORGOT to mention was not only did he in FACT over come his injury and was able to walk...he also was able to perform stronger more effective kicks than he'd previously been able to prior to the accident. Just goes to show how truly masterful Bruce Lee was.

[BloodyNine007]

He could no longer do somersaults though and lived with severe chronic back pain for the rest of his short life. It may have been one of the factors in his death.

[nameless12345]

who somersaults in a fight? he doesnt need that shit

[BloodyNine007]

The point is that he never completely recovered.

[nameless12345]

lol o yeh thats true

[volatileacid]

You'll be wanting to keep your back arched throughout. Right at the end, you round your back - it was fine until that point.

[Chukchii]

I do it myself, but it`s a really stupid exercise. I could just do deadlift instead.

[KThind]

It can actually be done with legs straight or legs bent and it works the gluts, biceps femoris, and your thoracic muscles.

[cam60558]

supposed to bend legs

[SWortham7]

Just to comment on the form -- you may have to modify this exercise based on your own flexibility. The idea is that you shouldn't go down so low that you can't keep the arch in your back. If the back begins to round near the bottom of this lift, then you've gone too far and you can potentially cause some back strain or injury. The same principle applies to the squat & deadlift.

[monk3yboy69]

You NEVER arch your back during this move, or the deadlift and squat for that matter!

You bend at the waist, keeping your back STRAIGHT, until your upper body is parallel to the floor. You should be looking forward, not down. Hold a second and slowly return to start.

[ExtremeMetalMike]

arching your back is how this is performed.... you arch on any lift, its what keeps you from tearing a muscle or popping a disk. you need to keep the back in a tight arch, just look at ever successful powerlifter they all arch

[STiTypeUK]

he means arch, not slouch.. arching is what helps keep your spine in line and not round out.

idk why every1 has negged this dude.. hes completely right.

[CoreySpringer]

There are a lot of top powerlifters who pull with a rounded back... so that's a blanket statement.

[ExtremeMetalMike]

they also use single and double ply gear and it is somewhat expected for SOME form breakdown in technique when performing MAX lifts or setting PRs but in general my statement holds true

[CoreySpringer]

Ed Coan pulled with a rounded back. Travis Tilley (APF fed, who I know personally) pulls with a rounded back. A lot of guys pull with a rounded back... equipped or not. A lot of guys train using rounded back GMs and DLs. It doesn't automatically denote a 'form breakdown'.

[mastercrap77]

Supposed to keep your legs straight....

[voiceofheaven]

omg are you serious??? lifting like that will hurt ur back. first you supposed to wear a belt and 2nd you have to bend at ur hips with ur butt out so u can put the pressure off you back not bend your back like that person is doing because that is lifting with your back and not your legs.

[enjoilax]

Its a back excercise.

[shaun680]

No, it's a hamstring exercise.

[therealdishen]

This isnt a squat.

[Mizz360]

haha u dont need a belt. he is doing them correctly and using good form. U fail

[illidanz]

thank you, very helpful

[mascchris20]

thanks for this vid, mine were way off.

[tj817tx]

Hmmm....I was told your back is supposed to have an arch to it, and to not let it round off. He looked like he was going so low his back would round out....heard it was very dangerous

[ironwarrior99]

so I guess 45 degrees is about all you should bend then?

[monk3yboy69]

No, you bend parallel to the ground. Keeping your back straight. looking straight ahead of you.

Some of the comments on this site are really worrying.

[ironwarrior99]

you don't need to be inside the cage to do this exercise...DUH!

[ciantgock]

what's the point of lifting on a cage if your not inside the cage