Free weights will activate even more muscles as you will start to use your core and
stabiliser muscles.
I prefer to train without a weight belt as it requires me to use more of the tiny
stabiliser muscles in my lower back to keep me steady throughout the lift.
Not exact matches
This movement will actually strengthen your whole posterior chain by making the gluteus
muscles, hamstrings and adductor magnus work together synergistically to extend the hips, while the lower back extensors take the role of
stabilisers.
Purpose of exercise: To strengthen abdominal
muscles, hip extensors and coordinate spinal
stabilisers.
While the lower back is often involved as a
stabiliser in other exercises, such as squats, it is important to include a specific back extension movement in your back workout, which targets the
muscles effectively and makes everyday activities easier to perform with less injury risk.
Since the gluteus maximus is substantially larger by weight and volume, this highlights the substantial difference in
muscle architecture between the gluteus maximus, which is much longer and functions as a prime mover, and the gluteus medius, which is shorter and functions primarily as a
stabiliser (Ward et al. 2009).
Similarly, Andersen et al. (2005) found that
muscle activity of the deep abdominal
stabilisers was similar in barbell back squats and smith machine squats with the same absolute.
The gluteus medius appears to function primarily as a
stabiliser, and may therefore be trained optimally using slow speed, high force
muscle actions.
It appears to function primarily as a
stabiliser and may therefore be trained optimally using slow speed, high force
muscle actions.