Hypers are great for the lower back, hams and glutes. Do them.
You do not need to use a barbell. It might sound sexy but that's just stupid ego chit. All you need to do is hold a plate to your chest, edge of plate right up under your chin. Much less fuss, safer and you are not going to knock out the pink thing in yoga pants doing stretches next to you.
In fact, if you have never done them before, just go unweighted until you get the hang of it, then add small amounts of weight.
How not to do them: Fapping away like a door in a hurricane. You will see this, it looks like speed hypers with no control and no pausing. May as well do situps, which are the world's second most useless exercise.
How to do them: Do them like most bodybuilder exercises should be done, under control, with perfect form. Whether you are weighted or unweighted, bend at the waist so that you are forming a 90 degrees shape, head vertically down. Contract your back and glutes to bring yourself up to a horizontal plank position and hold it there, even if it's only half a second. Squeeze the bemohammad out of your glutes and back. Relax and bend back down under control, pause a half second, rinse and repeat.
Do 5 sets of ten. You should be walking around like a zombie after that, with a massive lower back pump. Its quite uncomfortable but will do your spine a world of good. Nothing like a mass of ropey muscle to keep the spine aligned plus it will rocket your deadlift and keep your squat safe.
Beast mode: engaged.
Awesomeness achieved.