Glute-Ham Developer
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Glute-ham developer (GHD) exercise listed as a hamstring/hip-extensor movement and as an intermediate low-back exercise.
Detail
The glute-ham developer is listed as an exercise for the hamstrings (knee-joint flexors) and for the hip extensors (hamstrings and gluteus maximus). It also appears as the erector-spinae back-extension exercise (GHD) and as an intermediate low-back selection (Glutes/Ham Developer). Closely related to the glute-ham-gastroc raise broken out by joint.
Key facts
- Primary Muscles: Hamstrings, Gluteus Maximus.
- Secondary Muscles: Erector Spinae.
- Trains hamstrings as knee flexors and hip extensors.
Connections
- Hamstrings — knee flexors / hip extensors.
- Gluteus Maximus — hip extensor.
- Erector Spinae (Sacrospinalis) — back-extension component.
- Glute-Ham-Gastroc Raises — joint-by-joint breakdown of the raise.
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