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Podcast listeners, thank you so much for checking out today's show.

This is episode 61 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with each and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value-packed content

to help you move better in the gym and in life, decrease your body's aches and pains

and help you reach your true athletic potential.

Now, in today's podcast, I want to start a small series on what we'll call cautionary exercises

for low back pain rehab.

Now, there are a number of different exercises that I think have made its way into

strength training practices that require some caution, and especially in the context of

recovering from back injury.

Now, the one I want to talk about specifically today is the hip extension or the reverse

hyper machine. Now, the big thing I want you guys to understand as we go through this context of today's

podcast is that exercises are only a tool in our toolbox. And regardless of whether you're designing

a program for rehab or for performance,

we need to choose the best tool that helps us basically accomplish our individual goals. And we have

to choose them based on our individual injury history and what specific weak links our bodies have that we want to try to focus on.

We have to bring both of those into the discussion. So let's talk specifically about the hip

extension machine, also called the reverse hyper. Now the reverse hyper machine was originally

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