hey all,
I’m doing a Westside 9 week program. The ME squat exercise for weeks 7 and 8 are good morning squats, and week 9 is the max out week to find new 1 rms.
Since I can squat more than I can good morning, it seems to me a max effort gm squat is basically the same as a max effort squat. Is this on purpose, (ie 3 weeks in a row of max effort squat, adding in some extra lower back work?) Or am I missing something, like GM squats are supposed to be ass to the grass, or to a box.
thanks
josh
A Good Morning Squat-
first you do a good morning.
from this position you squat down.
You do the concentric portion of the squat and then do the concentric portion of the Good Morning. Hope this helps
To tell you the truth, I would drop the GM squats and get another movement, like chain suspended GMs or something. Especially if you are somewhat new to “Westside” training. In reality the GM squat is not used very often if at all. Remember: things change.
kind of weird exercise if good well , how about reverse hyper
I like good mornings, but I don’t necessarily agree with loading them very heavy for low reps. Its an assistance exercise, so doing reps of 8 or a bit higher shouldn’t be an issue. Abit more endurance in the back isn’t a bad thing from an injury prevention standpoint.
They have very good carroyover to the squat, and strenthening the posterior chain is always a good thing.
[quote]deadlift425 wrote:
I like good mornings, but I don’t necessarily agree with loading them very heavy for low reps. Its an assistance exercise, so doing reps of 8 or a bit higher shouldn’t be an issue. Abit more endurance in the back isn’t a bad thing from an injury prevention standpoint.
They have very good carryover to the squat, and strengthening the posterior chain is always a good thing. [/quote]
I will disagree on this. I load the good mornings with heavy but not crazy heavy loads for sets of 3-6. as long as your form is good on good mornings, you should be fine. I dont think GM squats would be good for a ME lift. Any other kind of good morning is great though. Good mornings are probably the best squat and dead lift builder I can find, other than squatting and dead lifting
maybe but how uncomfortable they are . how about box squats and reverse hyper .
[quote]winston43 wrote:
maybe but how uncomfortable they are . how about box squats and reverse hyper .[/quote]
They are uncomfortable because they work. Reverse hypers are more an assistance. Box squats work though.
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