Beginner exercise

Lower Back Curl

  • Muscle Growth
  • Calisthenics

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Technique

How to perform Lower Back Curl

  1. Lie on your stomach with your arms out to your sides and your legs resting on the floor.
  2. Keep your pelvis supported as you use your back muscles to lift your chest through spinal extension.
  3. Let your head follow your upper torso without deliberately tipping your chin upward.
  4. Do not press through your hands or lift your legs to raise your chest.
  5. Lower your chest to the floor under control before repeating.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Erector Spinae.

MuscleScoreRole
Erector Spinae1.0Target, Mover

Calisthenics graph

Progression relationships

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