Even though I'm deadlifting and squatting a lot more than I did the last time I tried doing GHRs over a year ago my glute/ham raise has pretty much stayed the same. In short, I can't do a single full rep. But I want to, very much. I thought that just doing them would help, but I'm bad at progressing from half-reps. I always seem to do the exact same half-rep, without being able to go further down.
I found two ways to do an assisted GHR. The video for the pulley assisted GHR is here (scroll down until you see GHR!!! and click on the picture). The video for the stability ball assisted GHR is on the same site, just scroll down to where it says video links (still under the GHR!!! heading), click on the title "ball ham raises, a similar but easier exercise".
Do either of those look like worthy GHR's? I don't have a workout partner, so if I can't make it back up during the pulley assisted GHR I'll hit my face on the floor and probably let go of the bar, making the plates crash down. Then everyone will look at me funny.
I could do the stability ball GHR with my feet under a loaded bar. But everyone will look at me funny.
Other than these, what exercises are best for increasing my GHR? Pullthroughs? RDLs? Goodmornings? Straight leg deads? Leg curls?
I'm currently following this "sample workout" by Bob Youngs, I started two weeks ago and all workouts can be found on the last page of my log in my signature.
Thanks for any help.
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Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
Frank, did you find that the improvement in your GHRs had a big carryover into your deadlift/squat?
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
I'm only asking what the carryover for him was like, I'm not asking him to tell me how much GHRs are going to help me in my lifts:p
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
Actually havnt maxed out since putting them in, and I have changed alot of things.
I dont think youll be able to get a solid number for carryover though, way to many factors, for instance, if your quads are weak (me) youll be able to get alot of weight out of the hole on a squat but fail at the top of it if the speed isnt there. In this case ghrs wouldnt help to much.
you use a setup with pulleys machines and hooking your feet under stuff, right?
totally different exercises, totally different carryovers.
That's what I was trying to say. I wasn't thinking of my own lifts and the carryover that I might get, I was curious about his lifts and the carryover he received. I was just curious about his experiences, and was in no way trying to relate them to my own.
Capiche?:p
I understand, Frank.S. Thanks for replying.
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
That's what I was trying to say. I wasn't thinking of my own lifts and the carryover that I might get, I was curious about his lifts and the carryover he received. I was just curious about his experiences, and was in no way trying to relate them to my own.
Capiche?:p
What to do to increase GHR
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