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    Hamstring Raise or Glute-Ham Raise Exercise

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    Hamstring rise or glute-ham raise is uncommon but useful hamstring exercise. It is suitable for advanced athletes only and will lend variety to your training sessions. Glute-ham raise is one of the best exercises for working the muscles of a football player’s buttocks, hamstring and lower back. Researchers discovered that men who add the glute-ham raise to their workouts suffer fewer hamstring strains than men who don’t perform the move. You can hold a weight between your hands to increase intensity.

    Glute-ham raise technique – proper form

    STARTING POSITION: Kneel on a flat ab bench with your heels under the rollers (or get a partner to sit on your heels), hands crossed in front of your chest, and your knees bent at 90 degrees (create a 90-degree angle with your upper and lower leg).

    glute-ham raise exercise guide
    using a partner to sit (or hold) on your heels
    glute hamstring raise - heels under the rollers
    heels under the rollers

    ACTION: Slowly lower your upper body toward the floor with your hands out in front of you. Resist your body weight by eccentrically contracting your hamstrings. Once your hands hit the floor, push yourself back up to the starting position.

    Performance tips for glute-ham raise

    • Slowly lower your torso forward while flexing your glutes and maintaining your hips, not allowing your body to bend at the waist.
    • Pull your body upright by flexing at the knees and pulling with your hamstrings and glutes until you return to the starting position.

    Variations

    • Place a box or a bench in front of you to limit the range of motion if necessary.
    • You can hold a weight between your hands to increase intensity if necessary. However, for most exercisers, bodyweight resistance is challenging enough.

    Performing the exercise using the glute-ham raise bench

    The glute-ham bench is hard to find in commercial gyms.

    SETUP: Set up the glute-ham raise bench so that your feet are as far away from the pad as possible while your knees are still in contact with it so that you do not slide down. Start in the upright position, where your thighs and torso are in alignment and perpendicular to the floor (a). If adding weight, hold it close to your torso.

    glute-ham raise exercise on a glute ham bench

    MOVEMENT: Keeping your hips engaged so that your thighs and torso stay in a straight line, allow your body to move forward and then downward, pushing yourself away from the bench and allowing the knees to extend. Once your torso is parallel to the floor and your knees can no longer extend, allow your hips to flex until your torso is upside down and perpendicular to the floor (b). Once you have reached this bottom position, reverse the action in a similar smoothly segmented fashion. First extend the hips until the body is parallel to the floor (c). Then flex the knees to bring the body back to the initial upright position, keeping the torso and thighs in line with each other (d).

    Video demonstration

    Muscles used

    Hamstrings (semimembranosus, semitendinosus and long head of the biceps femoris), gluteus maximus, (muscles of the lower back and along the spine).

    Replacement Exercises

    • Lying leg curl
    • Dumbbell straight-leg deadlift
    • Stability ball leg curl
    • Barbell straight-leg deadlift
    • Standing leg curl
    • Seated leg curl
    • Barbell or dumbbell lunge
    • Cable leg curl

    Closing thoughts 

    This is a very difficult exercise. Begin with a limited range of motion and then work your way up to going all the way to the floor. For added safety and comfort, do this exercise on a mat. The glute-ham raise exercise develops the muscles in the following: (1) lower back, (2) gluteus maximus and (3) hamstrings all in one exercise.

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