Smith Machine Good Morning
Position the bar across your upper traps inside the Smith machine and unrack it with a shoulder-width stance and a slight bend in your knees. Brace your core and keep a neutral spine as you hinge at the hips, pushing your glutes back and lowering your torso toward parallel. Stop when you feel a strong stretch in your hamstrings without rounding your lower back. Drive your hips forward to return to standing, squeezing your glutes at the top. The fixed bar path lets you focus on the hinge without balancing the load.
How it is executed
- Position the bar across your upper traps inside the Smith machine and unrack it with a shoulder-width stance and a slight bend in your knees.
- Brace your core and keep a neutral spine as you hinge at the hips, pushing your glutes back and lowering your torso toward parallel.
- Stop when you feel a strong stretch in your hamstrings without rounding your lower back.
- Drive your hips forward to return to standing, squeezing your glutes at the top.
- The fixed bar path lets you focus on the hinge without balancing the load.
- Muscles worked
- Hamstrings
- Primary muscle
- Hamstrings
- Equipment
- Smith machine
- Movement pattern
- Lower body
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- What it is for
- Strength · Hypertrophy
