In an ongoing effort to offer quality content on this site, I’ve decided to add an Exercise Library catagory. The Exercise Library will be updated periodically with video demonstrations, brief describtions, and tips on how to implement the exercise in your training program.
The first exercise in the library will be the poor man’s glute ham raise. Glute ham raises are an excellent exercise to develop the muscles of the glutes, hamstrings, and low back. I like them because they are a knee dominant way of hitting those muscle groups versus hip dominant exercises like RDL’s and Goodmorinings. Add these in as an assistance exercise to your deadlifts and squats. A typicall rep range for these is 5 x 10 or 4 x 12.
I use the term “poor man’s” because I do them without the use of an actual GHR. Here is what I do:
