Guys talking glutes

I always like to talk about butt stuff.

The glutes have pretty much the highest strength potential of any muscle group in the body, and are involved in every full body movement. Lifting, sprinting, jumping, all so heavily glute dependent.

Office jobs and being seated so much causes a lot of glute weakness. It shortens and tightens hip flexors, which results in people not being able to fully activate and use their glutes. There are a lot of good videos on trying to combat anterior pelvic tilt on the Youtube.

I primarily use single leg reverse hypers, but hip thrusts and sled dragging are also fantastic exercises that target the glutes and provide functional strength. If you're having trouble while running, I find warming up by holding hip bridges gets the glutes firing pretty well.

You probably just need to find some thot's workout on the gram and follow that to get the glutes where they should be

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oh yeah...i have the tightest hip flexors

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If you can remedy that a little, that will help a lot with your glutes.

When your hip flexors are tight, they antagonize the glutes and you can't get a true, powerful hip extension through the glutes. So your body will compensate by shifting the load.

Tight hip flexors are very common and have a high correlation to suboptimal glute function.

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Office jobs and being seated so much causes a lot of glute weakness. It shortens and tightens hip flexors, which results in people not being able to fully activate and use their glutes. There are a lot of good videos on trying to combat anterior pelvic tilt on the Youtube.

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Here's a pretty good expalnation of what happens to cause the glutes to not fire and some exercises you can do to combat it. I've also link a video with some good glute activation exercises.

The 5-Minute Glute Workout

9 Glute Activation Exercises (Video)