Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Lower Back Machine

keencuedess
keencuedess
Posts: 40
Joined: 2004/04/04
United States
2005/10/25, 04:02 AM
Hi, I just recently starting using the lower back machine at the gym and was wondering if I should push back to the point of where my back/spine stops me or stop somewhere earlier in the motion?

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bb1fit
bb1fit
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Joined: 2001/06/30
United States
2005/10/25, 11:10 AM
You should be able to set the hyper machine to where your back hyperextends just past parallel. The idea with this is not weight, it is to strengthen the lower back. You want a nice, smooth easy movement, with just enough resistance to "feel" it. You are not going to build big muscle there anyway, that is not what it is for.

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