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2024-10-21
Why Crossover Lunges Are a Game-Changer for Glute Strength, Stability, and Hip Mobility
When it comes to lower body training, exercises like squats, lunges, and deadlifts usually get all the attention. While these movements are fantastic for building strength, there’s one often-overlooked exercise that offers unique benefits—crossover lunges. This dynamic and multi-dimensional movement […]
read more2024-05-21
Does Glute Training Actually Help Low Back Pain
A lot of people are focused on glute training because partly, they want to help reduce and prevent low back pain (so they say). How much evidence is there that glute training actually helps low back pain and does it […]
read more2024-04-28
Why Isolating Glute Exercises Don’t Lead To Better Glutes
Jessica Bento, Physical Therapist (Creator DVRT Restoration Certification, DVRT Rx Shoulder, Knees, Pelvic Control, & Gait Courses) A lot of people make the all too common mistake of believing that isolating a muscle is the best way to improve the […]
read more2024-03-11
How To Build Glutes Smarter & Get Stronger
There is a weird narrative out there in social media land (I don’t know if I consider social media the real world so I give its own designation) that when you train in “functional” ways you don’t build muscle as […]
read more2024-01-22
The Best Exercise For Knee Pain?
What makes any exercise “the best” for something? For many, they assume the biggest weight that can be lifted means the most productive exercise. That MIGHT be true, but it has to be in the proper context of other variables. […]
read more2023-11-13
Why We Don’t Understand Glute Training At All!
Sometimes when I feel stuck what to write about, social media gives me a gift. After all, I’ve been writing articles online since 2001, so you can imagine the ideas start to feel sometimes too repetitive. However, after engaging with […]
read more2023-09-13
The Best Power Exercise For Glute Training & Core Strength
When it comes to glute training and core strength, power exercises usually don’t pop into people’s minds. It’s too bad because that is where the REALLY great work for glute training and core strength happen! The glutes are part of […]
read more2023-08-8
Why Glute Training Is Silly
This isn’t clickbait, I honestly think the mentality of glute training is quite silly. Why just the glutes? Which gluteal muscles? Since the glutes are not designed to work by themselves, why do we take the approach of trying to […]
read more2023-03-9
Why Squeezing Your Glutes Doesn’t Work
Jessica Bento, Physical Therapist (Creator DVRT Restoration Certification, Knees Over Toes Course, DVRT Rx Shoulder, Knees, Pelvic Control, & Gait Courses) Squeeze the glutes, activate your lats, engage your core…all these are cues I hear coaching and therapists using. Don’t […]
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