Back Extension
Hips on a pad with the ankles held, bend at the waist to lower the torso, then raise it back in line with the legs. Also called Hyperextension, 45 Degree Back Extension and Back Extension (Machine).
- Pattern
- Hip hinge
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Works
- Lower back, glutes, hamstrings
- Loads
- Hips, lower back
When it stalls, these usually help
Direct work for your glutes, which this lift also depends on.
Direct work for your hamstrings, which this lift also depends on.
How Swolver coaches it
This lift is read from your own sessions. When it goes flat for four weeks, Swolver names the likely cause in plain words, such as weekly sets that dropped, and the one change to make. The rules are all on the method page.