how many people on here can do a natural glute ham raise. ive been doing them now for 3 months with weight assistance and still havent done one but im very very close i can do 1 with 2 plates assisting me. these are pully plates weighing 5kg each.
noone in my gym can come close to one they usuualy use 5 to 10 plates assistance.
On a related note, I too would like to know what you mean by plate assistance. The only machine GHR I’ve seen has you placing your hands and chest on a steady support, then lifting up a platform with your feet, whereas a natural GHR is reversed (feet secured, body moves up).
i use the cable cross over machine and there is a space at the bottom to put ur feet. then i grab the pulley from above using the rope handles to hold it at my shoulders and the weight pulls me back up.
I have a 2 high school athletes that can get pretty much do it with some slight body english. I have seen a college football player go down, touch his chest and then come back up on his own, but that’s rare. Most people really struggle with these (me included).
I can do a negative with good form! That’s about as close as it gets.
I’ve always felt like a wimp not being able to do them, but from people’s comments I take it that it’s much harder than on a GHR frame.
At the gym I manage one of the members, a long distance runner who’d only been lifting weights a couple of months did one full rep. I was well pissed off!
[quote]steelwheels wrote:
I can do a negative with good form! That’s about as close as it gets.
I’ve always felt like a wimp not being able to do them, but from people’s comments I take it that it’s much harder than on a GHR frame.
At the gym I manage one of the members, a long distance runner who’d only been lifting weights a couple of months did one full rep. I was well pissed off![/quote]
lol thats madness i say we all set ourselves a chalenge to do one b4 xmas lol.
[quote]superscience wrote:
steelwheels wrote:
I can do a negative with good form! That’s about as close as it gets.
I’ve always felt like a wimp not being able to do them, but from people’s comments I take it that it’s much harder than on a GHR frame.
At the gym I manage one of the members, a long distance runner who’d only been lifting weights a couple of months did one full rep. I was well pissed off!
lol thats madness i say we all set ourselves a chalenge to do one b4 xmas lol. [/quote]
That sounds like a very productive challenge to me! Don’t expect me to post a vid though, I’m pretty much computer illiterate.
Roll on Christmas.
PS. Does anyone know of a way of improving my chances of doing one rep?
[quote]mythwalker wrote:
The long distance runner prob has and advantage in that he had absolutly no upperbody mass to lift. But none the less im in for the challenge,[/quote]
Yeah, but at the time he had no lower body mass either!
I know he reads this so I hope he doesn’t take it the wrong way. He has come a long way since then. I like to think his gains were all down to my advice, that incidentally, I plaigarised of this site!