Good Morning

In 2000 (and on a few other occasions) I published and claimed copyright on this exercise description (bolding added now):

Good Morning :

With the bar on your back, take a shoulder width stance and slightly bend the knees. The knee angle is now not to change during the lift. Flex or lower forward from the waist, keeping your chest up and hip/spine flat i.e. aligned. Only flex forward as far as you can PRIOR to any rounding of the spine or posterior rotation of the hip. For most, this will not be very far!

You can also accentuate the hamstring involvement by pushing the bum back and allowing your weight to drift to your heels during the lowering. During the lift, squeeze the glutes. This increases the hamstring involvement, which is the aim.

I was conducting research and I came upon the following exercise in a publication copyright claimed by another 'author' at a subsequent date (bolding added):

Good Morning :

With the bar on your back, take a shoulder width stance and slightly bend the knees. The knee angle is now not to change during the lift. Flex or lower forward from the waist, keeping your chest up and hip/spine flat i.e. aligned. Only flex forward as far as you can PRIOR to any rounding of the spine or posterior rotation of the hip. For most, this will not be very far!

You can also accentuate the hamstring involvement by pushing the bum back and allowing your weight to drift to your heels during the lowering. During the lift, squeeze the glutes. This increases the hamstring involvement, which is the aim.

And I said to myself: “That looks familiar!” So I cross-referenced it and I said to myself: “Wow! No wonder that looked familiar!”

And I came upon this description another four more times by the same 'author' in different publications.

I noted that the use of this description was in the absence of credits or references to the origin or permission to use from the original author (myself), and that the 'author' claimed copyright....