{"id":677,"date":"2010-01-28T02:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2011-01-04T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:11:03","slug":"good-lower-back-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/good-lower-back-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Lower Back Exercises&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my personal favorite exercises to finish off a back workout is the hyper extension. <\/p>\n<p>This really targets the lower back and will both stretch and strengthen the entire prosterior chain. This is critical for preventing back related injuries that are so common these days.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 variations of the hyper extension that I like to include in my workouts. One is the standard variation that works the lower back, hips, glutes, and hamstrings. The other is a more isolated lower back variation that really targets the spinal erectors.<\/p>\n<p>I like to alternate back and forth and do 2-3 sets of both variations to really get a great lower back workout.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below to see how to perform both hyper extension variations. Give them a try in your next back workout and then leave me a comment below to let me know how they work for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/89YEuqciKJQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;d like to get early notification of when my next training video is posted.<br \/>\nMake sure to Subscribe to my YouTube Channel at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/leemhayward\">http:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/leemhayward<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my personal favorite exercises to finish off a back workout is the hyper extension. This really targets the lower back and will both stretch and strengthen the entire prosterior chain. This is critical for preventing back related injuries that are so common these days. There are 2 variations of the hyper extension that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-workouts","category-workout-exercise-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-aV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}