Strength · Hinge · Bodyweight
Glute Bridge
Glute Bridge is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the glutes, with help from the hamstrings.
How to do it
- Feet hip-width, heels close to the glutes
- Breathe out and lift the hips by squeezing the glutes
- Straight line from knees to shoulders, ribs down
- Hold a second at the top, lower slowly
In Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead starts you on 3 sets of 8–12 reps with 2:00 rest. When every set reaches 12 reps, add 2.5 kg, or 5 lb if you train in pounds of extra weight, or keep adding reps.
Muscles worked
Mainly
- Glutes
Also
- Hamstrings
Joints it loads
- Lower back a lot
- Hip some
With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.
Log it in Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead works out your next set of glute bridge, and every other lift, from your own numbers.
Test it before releaseSimilar exercises
The same movement, done another way: what the app suggests when you swap.