How to do the Band Good Morning
Step by step
- Stand on the middle of a band with feet hip-width apart and loop it across your upper back.
- Stand tall with a slight bend in your knees and your hands holding the band in place.
- Push your hips straight back and hinge your torso forward, keeping your back flat.
- Lower until you feel a stretch in your hamstrings, torso around parallel.
- Drive your hips forward to stand back up tall against the band's pull.
The thing people get wrong
This is a hip hinge - bend at the hips with a flat back, not by rounding your spine. The knees stay softly bent and mostly still.
Coaching cue
Let the stretch behind your thighs tell you when to stop; when it stops building, stand back up.
Make it easier or harder
- Harder: Step wider on the band or use a thicker band for more tension.
Muscles worked
- Primary: Hamstrings, Glutes
What to do instead
Same job, different movement — useful if you don't have the equipment or it doesn't feel right today.
Daily Coach builds this into a real weekly plan. It picks the exercises for your equipment and experience, swaps around injuries you tell it about, and tracks what you actually lifted.