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Technique

  1. Lie down on your back, with one foot up on a Stability ball, the other leg straight up in the air, and your butt right under the knees.
  2. Push on your foot 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.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.

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

Regressions

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One-leg elevated glute bridge

Novice
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Stability ball glute bridge

Novice
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Stability ball hamstring curl

Novice
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Low bird squat

Intermediate
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Double bird-dog

Novice
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Stability ball ab rollout

Intermediate
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