This simple move offers great benefits for your entire backside — upper back, glutes, hamstrings, and calves. Get ready to tone with both feet solidly planted on the floor.
- Stand holding a pair of medium-weight dumbbells in each hand, arms at your sides, with your knees slightly bent.
- Keeping your arms straight and knees slightly bent, slowly bend at your hip joint, not your waist, and lower the weights as far as possible without rounding your back, which should remain straight. Looking forward, not at the ground, will help you avoid rounding your back. Keep the weights close to, almost touching, your legs.
- Squeeze your glutes to slowly pull yourself up. Be sure not to use your back or round your spine!
Modification
— To practice the bending motion, you can do this exercise without weights. And when you do, it's called a good morning.
