9/19/2023 0 Comments Figleaf pose![]() ![]() Writing in 1924, Alan Calvert commented on a supposed strength test being undertaken in US Colleges Plundering the excellent website that is the The Tight Tan Slacks of Dezso Ban reveals a series of fascinating articles and chapters on this point. In any case, it is clear that by the 1920s and 1930s the exercise was a rather commonplace one. Unfortunately for us, I have been unable to ascertain whether this was at the beginning of Gorner’s training career in the 1910s or later in the 1930s. While this was undoubtedly the result of his tremendous affinity with the deadlift, Logan Christopher and Edgar Mueller both cited Gorner using the Good Morning exercise, or some rudimentary variant, as part of his training. Pulling seemingly inhuman weights with just his pinky fingers, Goerner’s posterior chain was in layman’s terms, stacked. Now regular readers of this post will already be acquainted with Hermann Goerner, the early twentieth-century strongman know for his incredible deadlifting ability. What we can do is trace the earliest mentions of the exercise and then go from there. Similar to the squat, it is nigh on impossible to pinpoint one man or woman and proclaim with certainty that they invented the exercise. Right now that the admin is out of the way we can get onto the good stuff. Pictures paint a thousand words, so videos must be twice as good eh? Beginning with a barbell across ones trap muscles, similar to a back squat, lifters will slightly bend their knees, kick their ass out and bring their upper torso as close to parallel to the floor as possible. To clear any misconceptions, today’s post is not about a friendly greeting phrase uttered to one’s neighbours but rather the posterior chain exercise that admittedly looks rather odd. The Good Morning has a long and rich history within the Iron Game, one that we’re going to delve into today. This, the present post argues, is a rather pitiful thing. Used by numerous bodybuilders, powerlifters and athletes, the Good Morning is oftentimes a neglected thing, confined to a few strange individuals no doubt wearing belts and high heeled shoes. Aside from the cynical observation that far too many back squats one sees in the gym are bastardised good mornings, the reality is most like the latter. Depending on the gym you attend Good Mornings are either a commonplace exercise or a complete rarity. ![]()
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