Seated Good Mornings

Lower backBarbellIntermediateCompound
Seated Good Mornings — start position
Start
Seated Good Mornings — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryLower back
SecondaryGlutes

How to do it

  1. 01

    Set up a box in a power rack. The pins should be set at an appropriate height. Begin by stepping under the bar and placing it across the back of the shoulders, not on top of your traps. Squeeze your shoulder blades together and rotate your elbows forward, attempting to bend the bar across your shoulders.

  2. 02

    Remove the bar from the rack, creating a tight arch in your lower back. Keep your head facing forward. With your back, shoulders, and core tight, push your knees and butt out and you begin your descent. Sit back with your hips until you are seated on the box. This will be your starting position.

  3. 03

    Keeping the bar tight, bend forward at the hips as much as possible. If you set the pins to what would be parallel, you not only have a safety if you fail, but know when to stop.

  4. 04

    Pause just above the pins and reverse the motion until your torso it upright.

In the app

Seated Good Mornings appears when you own a barbell and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have a barbell

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With barbell
With other
With bodyweight

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