With the help of our booster club, we have just purchased an Elite FTS glute-ham raise bench for our weight room. We anticipate delivery in about three weeks.
We will begin to use the bench with our track athletes (I’m the sprint coach for outdoor track) which includes many of our football players. Can anyone recommend a good start-up set-rep scheme for GHR? I’m thinking of 2-3 sets of 6-8 reps for our stronger, more mature athletes once/week and negative holds (lowering from perpendicular) for the younger guys. Any thoughts?
Don’t be surprised if you have many athletes who can’t do 1 strict raise. I think a good way to start would probably be do x amount of reps however long it takes. For the weaker guys do 10-15 reps, the stronger guys can do 20-30 or more if they are strong enough. But I have used that GHR before, and it is tough, so I wouldn’t be surprised if some guys couldn’t do 1.