Ok, who's our resident expert on good mornings?

I've been doing them for a couple weeks now, and am still not real comfortable with them. Can someone walk me through the basics of the exercise and the muscles it should be working.

Also, if some of you could post your stats of weight you use doing the exercise that would be cool.

Thanks.

The GMs should hit the posterior end-glutes, lower back, and hamstrings. You keep your back arched (no rounding) and bend over at the hips. You'll slightly bend at the knees and then come back up.

It would help if you could get a video of you doing them to check your form.

I usually work with 225-230 for reps of 6-8.

Cool thanks.

I have another question about these. When you do the negative part of the lift, is it ok if your butt leans back a little, so you don't fall forward? It seems that as I up the weight on this lift, it becomes increasingly difficult not to adjust my center of gravity.

That's fine as long as your back is not rounding. My GMs almost look like a hybrid squat/good morning (it's more of a olympic modified style). You'll prob have more stability if you use a wider stance and use a low bar position. The low bar position takes a bit of getting used to as opposed to the bar resting on the traps like a squat.