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🍑 Glutes Workout

Sitting all day switches these muscles off. That shows up later as knee pain and lower back pain.

🍑 Beginner

Glute Bridge

Glutes, lower back

The most important exercise for anyone who sits all day. It also relieves lower back pain.

3 sets x 15-20
🍑 Beginner

Donkey Kicks

Glutes

One side at a time. You are on hands and knees, so there is no load on your lower back.

3 sets x 15 each leg
🍑 Beginner

Fire Hydrants

Side glutes, hips

On all fours, lifting one knee out to the side. It looks silly and it works the side of the backside that almost nothing else reaches.

3 sets x 15 each side
🍑 Intermediate

Single Leg Glute Bridge

Glutes, hamstrings

A glute bridge with one foot in the air, so one side carries everything. Twice the work for the same effort.

3 sets x 10-12 each leg
🍑 Beginner

Clamshells

Side glutes

Lie on your side and open the top knee like a shell. Physiotherapists give this one out constantly, because weak side glutes are behind a lot of knee pain.

3 sets x 15-20 each side
🍑 Beginner

Frog Pumps

Glutes

A glute bridge with the soles of your feet together and knees open. That position takes the thighs out of it, so the glutes cannot cheat.

3 sets x 20-25
🍑 Beginner

Standing Kickback

Glutes

Kick one leg straight back while standing. Easy on the knees and easy to slip into a day - you can do it holding the kitchen counter.

3 sets x 15 each leg
🍑 Intermediate

Chair Hip Thrust

Glutes

A glute bridge with your upper back raised on a sofa. The extra range makes it the best glute exercise you can do without weights.

3 sets x 12-15

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This is general information, not medical advice

Everything on this page is worked out from a formula or from published averages. It has never met you, and it cannot see your blood pressure, your medication or an old injury.

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