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5 Red Flags for Weak Glutes (FIX THIS!)



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Weak glutes are probably the most frequent muscle weaknesses exhibited. The irony is, the muscle mass of the hips and glutes are designed to be the strongest in your complete physique. Given their location across the pelvis and their affect on the middle of mass and backbone, they’re designed to be extremely robust and able to offering stability in all three planes of movement. As you’ll see on this video nevertheless, many people are strolling round with very weak glutes and I’m going to indicate you methods to determine this out shortly.

There are 5 exams you can simply carry out to find out the standing of your glutes. The primary is the straightforward quadruped kneeling leg extension take a look at. Right here you need to get on all fours and straighten one leg out behind you. Ensure that the knee is straight and that your hips are squared as much as the bottom. From right here, try and squeeze your glutes on one aspect and raise that leg up in the direction of the ceiling. Do you are feeling an intense contraction within the glute muscle mass?

In that case, that may be an excellent signal that you’ve the power to activate your glutes. That isn’t sufficient nevertheless. From right here, you now must bend the knee to additional shorten the hamstring and put extra of the emphasis on the gluteal muscle mass to carry out the identical exercise of lifting the leg in the direction of the ceiling. Squeeze once more and see if you’ll be able to reproduce the identical discomfort. If not, that’s your first purple flag. You’ll want to take a look at on each side as imbalances are frequent between the correct and left legs.

Subsequent you need to carry out the bridge take a look at. Lay in your again and press your heels into the bottom with a bent knee place. Carry your hips as excessive as you’ll be able to. For those who already begin to really feel some cramping in your hamstrings on both aspect this might be an early purple flag that you’re coping with weak glutes. If not, then proceed to raise one leg within the air and see for those who can maintain your trunk and pelvis up all through the take a look at with out sagging. As soon as once more, for those who really feel cramping right here or if the pelvis is unable to be saved lifted then you will want to handle the weak spot in your glutes.

The third take a look at is the lunge take a look at. Right here you need to see what the energy of your glute medius is within the frontal airplane. Take no matter weight you’ll usually use for a set of 12 to fifteen reps of dumbbell lunges after which mix that weight into one hand. So for those who used 25lbs for instance in every hand, you’ll maintain a single 50 pound dumbbell in a single hand for this take a look at. Lunge out with the leg that’s reverse the hand holding the dumbbell and try to preserve an upright torso with out fallling in the direction of or leaning to the weighted aspect. For those who can’t, then you will have a serious purple flag for glute medius weak spot.

The fourth take a look at is definitely extra of a detection of a symptom. Do you will have low again ache that’s pin level positioned simply to the correct of the bony prominence in your pelvis known as the PSIS. In that case, this might be coming as soon as once more from weak spot of the glute medius muscle. I did a complete video on this matter that you’re going to need to see because it reveals you methods to repair this drawback immediately through the use of a myofascial method.

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Lastly, the difficult and troublesome dragon flag ab train is definitely way more simply carried out for those who enable the glutes to do their half. I present you ways the shortage of glute activation is a inform story signal within the poor efficiency of the train and for those who can’t activate them to enhance the way in which you do that motion you then positively needs to be alerted to the purple flag pointing to the weak spot.

As you’ll be able to see, the glutes are a serious and vital muscle group within the physique that can’t be ignored no matter whether or not you’re a excessive performing athlete or a mean joe coping with the repercussions of getting weak spot on this space. In case you are in search of a whole program that overlooks nothing in relation to coaching each muscle within the physique, you’ll want to head to and get the ATHLEAN-X Coaching System.

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38 Comments

  1. Why is it that camera men don't like to film below the knee? This is a vid about legs and glutes, but camera doesn't show the WHOLE body movement, it cuts the feet out of the frame. Look at 4:194:21. IT's soo annoying. Please, tell the camera man to focus on whole body movement and the body parts being discussed. I don't care to look at this man's face when he is talking: I care about looking at what he is POINTING at.
    Thank you, Athlean-x, for your valuable instructions. Just talk to the camera man. 🙂

  2. Yes if you are working out you need to hit every muscle, you can't just do your favourite exercises. You will definitely cause serious imbalances that way.

  3. Been working to increase my glute strength.
    Don't have that sideways failure, at least not until everything else is failing.
    But my glutes are still a weak point for me.

  4. Can we have a video on which exercise to do to fix this? I’ve tried all the lower body workouts and can not for the life of me get my glutes to activate much. I have lower back pain like no other and feel every exercise in my lower back or quads. Frog pumps, hip thrusts, barbell floor bridges, lunges, BS squats, rdl, sidekick Rdls ect I don’t really feel my glutes burning. I’ve had 5 hip surgeries and have had my IT band release and my psoas tendon release not sure if this is the cause for my issue.

  5. Your the shit Jeff 🤙🏾
    The videos u and your team provide are greatly detailed
    If there is a specific plan to help people with safe and effective weight loss while having a previously injured back, and weak knees
    I'll pay, if not just keep up the good work
    I'll be here

  6. I thought I knew everything about working out and bodybuilding until I started getting older and getting injured a lot more just going to the gym. Started watching Jeff’s videos and applying what I’ve learned and realized I knew hardly nothing about working out. He is truly a genius in his field and it’s incredible he gives this knowledge away freely on YouTube. I plan to eventually watch every video he has on YouTube. My low back already feels a lot better from one of his exercises he’s shown in another video.

  7. okay so i literally can’t feel my glutes in ANY of these, i know i have weak glutes and a not very good mind muscle connection. i feel bridges above my knee (i think in my quads) i’ve doing glute activation before my lower body days but its not gotten better, i can never feel my glutes in hip thrusts or any glute focused exercise. i really need help i have no idea what to do!

  8. Jeff, while your doing lunges around 4 minutes in, it looks like perhaps your knee collapses medially. May be your camera angle, or perhaps a glute medius issue….? I'll leave it in your capable hands to investigate 😉 Thanks for your good content, Cheers!

  9. Jeff, thanks so much for all the insight related to back pain issues and correlation with gluteus muscles. I do seem to have an issues with my right gluteus medius and also suffer with anterior pelvic tilt- all of which I have been gradually working over the past 6months ( had to take esi to block my L4 as well). My trouble is everytime I try to do the specific glut medius exercises, it makes my pain worse at my SI joint. Not sure what I am doing wrong but some direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for all the videos!

  10. This is an older video so I'm not really expecting a reply but when I do the bridge test, it's fine until I lift 1 leg. My pelvis does want to drop but I get strong activation in my quad, not hamstring. What do I need to work on?

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