Why Activate Your Glutes?

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Why is activating your glutes so important: To achieve optimal booty gains and the best results, it is crucial to properly activate glutes prior to training legs/glutes. I will explain the nitty gitty and why this is so so important!!!⠀ ⠀

When your glutes don’t fire properly, you compensate and use other muscles when lifting which can lead to injury, unnecessary pain and even muscle imbalances.
For many individuals, their glutes remain “inactive.” Inactive glutes can mean that the muscles are weak and are not relied on as much as they should be during physical movements. Glute activation refers to activating or firing up the muscles in effort to strengthen them. Activating your glutes is important so you can actually strengthen and grow them. In other words, activating your glutes will assist you to achieve the perfect round firm big booty that you want! Whatever your booty goals may be.
It’s important to fire up your glutes prior to glute or lower body exercises, because you want your glutes to be engaged the entire time with each exercise. This helps you to create a lovely looking booty! This can be as simple as performing a few activation movements prior to going into your weight session. By performing a warm-up that specifically focuses on activating your glutes, you are helping to create a mind-body connection. After activating your glutes and you begin to perform glute/leg exercises this ensures your glute muscles will remain engaged throughout each exercise that you do. This is exactly what we want. The idea is to reap ALL the possible benefits when doing your glute and/or leg workouts.
Strong glute muscles are extremely important, these muscles have a major impact on your overall body strength. Your glutes support your core, help to support a range of exercises and compound movements, as well as help you to avoid muscles imbalances which can lead to decreased mobility.
These are a few of my go to glute activation warm ups to properly fire up my glutes. There are many different variations of glute warm ups that you can do using a booty glute band, below are a couple of my personal favorites.
- Lateral walks or duck walks
- Donkey kicks
- Glute bridge hold, while abducting your knees
- Single-leg banded glute bridge
- Squat jumps
- Banded squats
- Angled step out
- Standing Kickbacks

Once you incorporate banded glute activation exercises into your routine, you will start to notice a huge difference in the development of your butt and improvement in overall glute strength.