can you do a glute ham raise?

[reese12]

How many people can do a glute ham raise with just someone holding your feet down. No equipment?

 

[stevius]

One thing comes to mind when I think of performing this exercise without equipment- knee pain.

I haven't yet found a gym with a proper piece of equipment specifically for the glut/ham raise, but then you can do the poor versions by hooking your ankles under a pulldown stack and using the ropes to give you that extra bit of leverage. Know what I mean?

The other alternative is to use a sit-up board, again hooking the ankles under the pads where your feet would normally be.

 

[Chambewy20]

I've heard of doing them with one of those balls, swiss balls or whatever, heals against the wall, knees in the balls or something but never have tried it. Think it was Mike Miller from Nazareth Barbell, can look at Nazbar.com they have a new discussion board and are pretty good at updating stuff.

I've never tried it though, I look geeky enough without rolling of a ball near all the ab-people.

I do 45 degree raises, pull throughs, romanian deadlifts but without a real GHR it just ain't the same, IMO!!!

 

[Tweakle]

you can do them with seated calf raise peices (cybex, hammer st) by facing out the machine - usually these pieces have a much wider ass pad than you'll get on the regular pulldown machine (my knees dont fit on a pulldown seat)

I cant do them with just bw.. truely humbling. Using a stick to hold onto makes them possible but still brutal

 

[stevius]

(my knees dont fit on a pulldown seat)

Have you tried putting a bench just behind or on top of the pulldown seat. I know it sounds like a lot of fuss, but for the thick of torso I think it's a fair solution that evades the distractions involved with manual counter resistance.

 

[bignate73]

How many people can do a glute ham raise with just someone holding your feet down. No equipment?

that would be a prone bodyweight leg curl if you don't bend at the hips. the point of a GHR is that the glutes are active as well as the hammies.

nit picking yes, but its 2 different movements.

 

[stevius]

I think it is one of the best exercises for working lower back.