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Technique

  1. Lie down on your back, with your feet up on a Stability ball and your butt right under the knees.
  2. Push on your feet and activate your Glutes to lift your hips up as high as possible.
  3. Keep your shoulders down on the ground.
  4. Slowly come back down and repeat.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings
  • Spine

Secondary

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

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

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Stability ball hamstring curl

Novice

Regressions

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Elevated glute bridge

Novice
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Stability ball single leg glute bridge

Intermediate
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Hip stand

Novice
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Stability ball pike compression

Novice
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Front plank squat

Novice
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Low bird

Novice
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