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The glute ham raise is essentially the only movement that trains your strength specifically in your glutes and hamstrings (your posterior chain). This is basically a bicep curl for your thighs, but has significantly more use than the classic brachial bicep curl. There are 2, technically 3, main varities of this movement. First is laying down on your belly, having someone or something hold your feet down, and pulling yourself up via your posterior chain that way. Even with cushions, you are still treating your kneecaps as a fulcrum. I do not recommend this way. It sucks. In a non-potentially beneficial way. #2 is using a roman chair, as you see in this video. This roman chair is inclined. Making it much more easy than using #3 the GHD. Glute-Ham Developer. This machine was specifically designed to optimize this movement. It sets your feet high enough so your lower body is set perpendicular to the ground. This allows gravity to have much more leverage on you, and also allows you to utilize almost double the amount of range of motion. This variation is much preferred over the others. My opinion. (Did not have access to one when these videos were recorded.) Breathe. Get into the machine as shown. Squeeze your butt, squeeze your belly. Keep your belly tight and relax your butt. Focus in pressing your lower quads into the pads and pull your whole torso up using only your butt and hamstrings. Breathe. #ehmobility #mobility #movement #selfcareishealthcare #assessyourposition #yogatuneup #ytu #fitness #exercise #crossfit #health #sustainability #breathe #ghraises #glutes #hamstrings

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100 days of deadlifting day 18. #ehmobility #mobility #movement #selfcareishealthcare #assessyourposition #yogatuneup #ytu #fitness #exercise #crossfit #health #sustainability #deadlift #100daysofdeadlifting #run #ghraises #goodmorning

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Workout of the day, 1/2/17 If you think core training is "accessory work," you're wrong. #ehmobility #mobility #movement #selfcareishealthcare #assessyourposition #yogatuneup #ytu #fitness #exercise #crossfit #health #sustainability #squat #frontsquat #goodmorning #glutehamraise #ghraises