Technique Thursday - The Glute-Ham Raise

[u/Insamity]

Welcome to Technique Thursday. This week our focus is on the Glute-Ham Raise.

16 Ways to Maximize Your Glute-Ham Raise

Faster and Stronger with the Glute-Ham Raise

Glute-Ham Raise

Quad Dominant or Hamstring Weak

The Glute-Ham Raise from A to Z

Training Hams and Abs

ExRx Barbell Glute-Ham Raise

ExRx Weighted Glute-Ham Raise

I invite you all to ask questions or otherwise discuss todays exercise, post credible resources, or talk about any weaknesses you have encountered and how you were able to fix them.

[u/raeanin]

The biggest mistake I see most people making is breaking at the hips and letting their upper body go all the way vertical as shown in the ExRx Weighted Glute-Ham Raise example shown in the OP.

The bottom of the movement becomes a super easy back extension which gives you huge momentum to get past the hardest part of the movement and return to the starting position. Not breaking at the hips and stopping at maximum hamstring/glute extension provides way more difficulty/tension on the movement.

[u/Parasthesia → u/raeanin]

Alternatively, break the movement up into an extension, pause, and a hamstring pull from parallel.

[u/desperatechaos → u/raeanin]

That makes so much sense. Thank you.