Substitute for Weighted Back Extensions?

[schoolstrength]

My gym's machine for this broke. What can I do instead? (I am doing F5 Intermediate).

[BeginnerGainz]

My gym's machine for this broke. What can I do instead? (I am doing F5 Intermediate).

Good Mornings are a viable, actually better alternative.

Also, how did they manage to break a back extension?

[GeneralSerpant]

you mean this?

[supramax]

My gym's machine for this broke. What can I do instead? (I am doing F5 Intermediate).

For many years, I just hooked my feet under a bench level bar attached to a weight stack and did back extensions lying on the bench turned sideways to the weight stack.

This is what I used:

Get the picture?

[SuffolkPunch]

GM is meant to be a hip hinge - i.e. you keep your spine rigid and the spinal erectors are only used isometricly.

You can modify it to flex your spine but you have to be careful to use a much lower weight and don't let your glutes and hams take over from your lower back.

Cable pull through is another possibility.

[Garage Rat]

You could try seated good mornings which would hit the lumbars more.
You'll need a power rack a bar and a bench.
Go with just a bar first.
They won't be exactly like the machine but similar.
As mentioned above you could do "round back good mornings" which require you to round the lumbars instead of hinge when you bend over.These should be done with fairly light weight and extreme focus.
These are a higher risk movement so be careful.
If your gym has a regular back raise bench(some call it a hyper extension bench)you can grab a weight plate or dumbbell and back raises.

[Xpiro]

Wait... why don’t you just use the hyperextension apparatus?