whats a good starting weight for goodmornings?

[louden_swain]

I'd say 315lbs.



















Start with the bar, then gradually progress to weights that are comfortable to use.

 

[audiophyle]

I'm trying goodmorning's for the first time today. What's a good weight to start with? I'm basically just going to work on form until i get it perfect. This exercise makes me kind of nervous but I really need to strengthen my lower back.

 

[JollyRogers]

probably the bar

 

[Liftbig]

i always start with the bar. if you mean top weight, that depends on what your max on good mornings is.

 

[ffknight84]

the bar, what sets and reps are you doing or is this max effort???

 

[Zander1983]

I started with the bar in late May and have worked up to 242 x 2 as of two days ago. Not a huge weight by any means, but you have to start somewhere

 

[Serea]

When I started doing them I was pretty weak at them. 80 was hard to do. I've worked up to 150. Starting with the bar is a good idea.

 

[audiophyle]

cool, thanks for the input. I guess I'll start with the bar.

 

[from zero]

Bar. Perfect your form first. Always.

 

[sinjinsmythe33]

if the bar seems heavy

take a light dumbell, hold it to your chest with both hands and perform the good morning, whatever variation you are doing. its a little different than a barbell across the back, but once you get to 45 pds you can use the barbell. its also a good warm up if you are hitting legs or lower back.

 

[b fold the truth]

I started with the bar and went up to 135. Didn't feel too bad...for about 30 minutes. At that point I messaged Hannibal to tell him that I now HATED HIS GUTS for introducing them to me...

B True

 

[overhead]

I just started doing them two weeks ago, I looked at my training log and it says

barx10 barx10 95x5 135x5 155x3 175x3 185x3 205x3

I went a little to far. Standing up the next day was not a hole lot of fun. If I had to do it over again I would probably would not have pushed that far.