The Good Morning With a Medicine Ball

The good morning strengthens the muscles on the backside of your body, the lower back, glutes and hamstrings. Most people in their lifetime will have an injury to the lower back. One way to help prevent such injuries is to do the good morning.

• Place a medicine ball on your upper back, not on your neck.

• Place your feet approximately hip width apart.

• Maintain the curve in your low back with your chest up. Your head is pointed straight ahead or slightly upward.

• Keep your knees soft. Push your hips back and start to bend forward from the hips, maintaining the normal curvature of your lower back.

• Lower your torso until it is parallel to the floor (or to a point where you begin to round your upper back) and then reverse directions and raise your torso to the starting position.