Glute activation

Just a couple of quick links connected by glutes.....

Martin Berkhan (you must have heard of him) posted this on Twitter and Facebook, and it is interesting as a study:

Low load exercises targeting the gluteal muscle group acutely enhance explosive power output in elite athletes.

It is this idea of activating the glutes as a warm up and it now seems to have some support from research.


I put a glute exercise in the Hillfit exercise routine - a hip extension / glute bridge - because I think that it is important to get the glutes firing, especially given that our habitual sitting posture tends to see those muscles under activated.  I was really focussing on a big 3 - squat (wall sit), pushup and row - but wanted to add a hip hinge/glute move.


Interestingly I saw this post today from Mike Reinold on the kneeling hip thrust as a simple glute exercise.  I was messing with this tonight using bands