Strength · Hinge · Bodyweight
Single-Leg Glute Bridge
Single-Leg Glute Bridge is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the glutes, with help from the hamstrings.
How to do it
- One foot planted close to the glutes, the other leg straight up or out
- Push through the heel and lift the hips level
- Do not let the hip on the free side drop
- Hold a second at the top, lower slowly; same reps on both sides
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 single-leg 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.