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Also known as: Weighted glute bridge.

Technique

  1. Sit on the ground, with your back to a bench and a Barbell on your hips.
  2. Place your shoulders above the bench, plant your feet firmly into the ground and push your hips upward, lifting the Barbell off the ground.
  3. Push your hips all the way up, activating your Glutes, then slowly go back to the starting position.
Logging: Total weight used.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Spine
  • Legs
  • Pelvis
  • Gluteus maximus
  • Semitendinosus
  • Semimembranosus
  • Biceps femoris (long)
  • Biceps femoris (short)
  • Spinalis thoracis
  • Longissimus thoracis
  • Iliocostalis

Equipment

Appears in

Other disciplines
Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

e10l

Deficit hip thrust

Novice

Regressions

e0eh

Glute bridge

Beginner
e0pk

Seated good morning

Novice
e00i

Jefferson curl

Novice
e1cy

Weighted Roman chair back extension

Novice
e1ck

Weighted 45-degree hip extension

Novice
e0h2

Good morning

Novice
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