Helpful Ways To Spark Inactive Glute Muscles

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Your butt is one of the most noticeable body part that gets a lot of attention, both in the aspects of fitness and aesthetics. You may not be aware but your buttocks is a muscle group that needs to be worked out to get its fuller shape and firmer build. Here are some tell-tale signs of poorly shaped buttocks that could also mean that these muscles are not doing their job as expected

1) Knee joint discomfort. This is usually characterized by pain in the knees, which may be likely signs that the glutes as well as your hamstrings are not properly utilized or may be experiencing some sort of a health condition that could require medical attention.

2) Awkward mechanics. Judging by the discomfort or awkward sensation that you get when doing your hinge, squat or lunge mechanics, your glutes may be doing its job as well. You see signs of it with significant anterior knee shift, lack of hip hinge mechanics. Knees collapsing forward, difficulty in doing a screwing motion of the feet on the floor, among others, are signs that the glutes are dysfunctional.

3) Weak feet and ankles. This may also be manifested by of balance and stability when lifting weights.

If you need to analyze your glutes’ performance, there are ways to analyze if it is working up to speed or not, your gym trainer may be able to assist you with several sets of exercises and activities that will determine the types of routines you need for your effective butt workout.

Here are some ways your gym trainer may advise you to do;

• Work your bum from both the contracted and stretched positions, Reason being that your glutes and hamstrings are maximizing their full range of motion.
• Varied pull-through hinge mechanics, as this applies horizontal force and resistance to allow the glutes with significant tension for both horizontal and vertical resistance.
• Improve spinal alignment and posture. This helps provide balance and targeting the right glute and hamstring muscles accordingly.
• Maximize the use of squat exercises. from Bulgarian squats, split squat and weighted lunges, it will help provide both resistance and tension for the glutes

When you start having your well-shaped booty formed and firmed, you need to maintain a good and consistent exercise routine to keep it in shape and your effective indicator that your are properly doing your workouts right.

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