Strength · Hinge · Bodyweight
Back Extension
Back Extension is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the lower back, with help from the glutes and hamstrings.
In Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead starts you on 3 sets of 8–12 reps with 2:00 rest. When every set reaches 12 reps, add 2.5 kg, or 5 lb if you train in pounds of extra weight, or keep adding reps.
Muscles worked
Mainly
- Lower back
Also
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
Joints it loads
- Lower back a lot
- Hip some
With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.
Log it in Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead works out your next set of back extension, and every other lift, from your own numbers.
Test it before releaseSimilar exercises
The same movement, done another way: what the app suggests when you swap.