How come good mornings hurt my neck?

[Smurf the little pea.]

I have checked and I have the proper form, the bar is not resting on my neck. I place the bar exactly how I do with squats. The thing is when I bend forward, my hands kind of push the bar forward as well, putting a lot of strain on my neck. Is it that I am just weak, I just started doing them a while back.

 

[bignate73]

bend over only until you are parallel with the ground.

i hope you arent bending further than that. if the bar is sitting on your traps and your neck is hurting, chances are it because your neck is getting tired. many people i train complain about holding up their heads when doing crunches! of all things.

 

[Smurf the little pea.]

No, I can barely get parallel to the groud as is I am very un-flexible. I need to work on that for sure, but to answer your question, I dont even bend parallel to the ground, close, but not quite parallel.

 

[sysopt]

If this exercise is bothering you then stop doing it. Stiff leg deadlifts are a good alternative.

 

[Smurf the little pea.]

Yes, I did stop it, I just find it way too uncomfortable. But with stiff deadlifts I cant even grab the bar I need to stretch more, or grow longer arms.

 

[bignate73]

stretch more, its doesnt matter how far you go down for sldl's so longer arms would be pointless. as long as you keep your back flat and get into the stretch in the hams and squeeze your glutes as you come up.

 

[SteelPreacher]

Smurf

Why are not flexible. You are pretty young right? and Female? You should be flexible as hell.You should try a Yoga class or something definitely a lot of stretching especially because you sound as if you are really into lifting now.