VIDEO: How To Feel Your Glutes In A Bridge
When you do a glute bridge you should feel your glutes - and only your glutes - working.
And your glutes shouldn’t just be working a little bit. Ideally, you want the control to make them work very, very hard. Turning our glutes on like this is what we’re meant to be practicing in a glute bridge.
So what about the many individuals who struggle to feel their glutes? If you feel it mainly in your quads or hamstring or low back when performing a glute bridge, you're not doing it properly.
In my experience, there are a couple of simple tips that tend to quickly solve the problem 90% of the time. That’s what I go through in this week’s video.
What about the other 10% of cases that don’t feel their glutes activate with these two simple tricks? That get a little, well, trickier. In those situations I’ve got to dig deep into my trainer toolkit to find some exercise - anything really - that enables the client to feel their glutes (and only their glutes) working. We’ll train that for a week or two on a daily basis, and then see if we’ve established enough of a mind-muscle connection that we can re-try the glute bridge with more success. If you’re on your own, remember that it’s the mind-muscle connection that is the key here.
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