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Exercise Library

Every exercise, ranked by effectiveness. Form breakdowns, tips, and programming guidance — no fluff.

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Banded Clamshell: The Humble Exercise With Serious Glute Med Power

beginner

Target the glute medius and minimus with this deceptively simple banded floor exercise. Essential for hip stability, injury prevention, and rounder glutes.

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Banded Hip Thrust

beginner

Add a resistance band above your knees to any hip thrust and immediately fix knee cave, increase glute med activation, and make every rep harder without touching the barbell weight.

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Banded Monster Walk: The Lateral Move Your Glutes Need

beginner

Build bulletproof glute meds and abductors with this banded lateral walk that torches the hips and improves knee tracking for every lift you do.

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Cable Kickback

beginner

The most targeted glute isolation exercise available — constant cable tension through the full range of motion means your glutes stay loaded from stretch to contraction.

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Donkey Kick: The Glute Isolation Move That Actually Works

beginner

Isolate the glutes through hip extension with zero spinal load. Deceptively simple, brutally effective when done right.

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Frog Pump: The Floor Exercise Your Glutes Actually Feel

beginner

The frog pump isolates the glutes at the top of the range where they're most active — no equipment, no excuses, and your glutes will know about it tomorrow.

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Glute Bridge: The Perfect Starting Point

beginner

Before you hip thrust, you need to nail the glute bridge. It's the foundation of all posterior chain training and a surprisingly effective exercise in its own right.

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Hip Abduction Machine

beginner

The seated hip abduction machine directly targets the glute medius and minimus — the side glutes that most training programs completely ignore.

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Hip Thrust: The GOAT of Glute Exercises

beginner

The hip thrust is scientifically proven to be the most effective glute-building exercise. Here's exactly how to do it, with perfect form, progressions, and common mistakes to avoid.

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Leg Press (High Foot Placement) for Glutes

beginner

Shift your feet up the platform and the leg press becomes a serious glute and hamstring builder — without loading your spine.

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Seated Hip Abduction Machine: The Glute Med Seat of Power

beginner

The seated hip abduction machine isolates your glute meds and TFL with zero balance tax — making it one of the most efficient tools for hip width and stability.

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Standing Cable Hip Abduction

beginner

A standing unilateral exercise that isolates the glute medius through its full range of motion — more effective than the seated machine for building lateral glute definition.

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45-Degree Hip Extension (Hyperextension) for Glutes

intermediate

A posterior-chain powerhouse that loads the glutes through a deep hip hinge under constant tension — the hyperextension bench earns its spot.

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Box Squat: The Glute-Loading Secret Hiding in Powerlifting

intermediate

The box squat forces you to sit back, load the hips, and own the bottom position — making it one of the best squat variations for glute development.

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Bulgarian Split Squat: The Single-Leg Glute Builder You're Avoiding

intermediate

The Bulgarian split squat loads each glute unilaterally, exposes imbalances, and builds serious lower-body strength and muscle. Stop skipping it.

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Cable Pull-Through

intermediate

A hip-hinge pattern that keeps constant tension on your glutes through the full range of motion, building strength and size without spinal loading.

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Curtsy Lunge: The Glute Exercise Hiding in Plain Sight

intermediate

The curtsy lunge loads your glutes from a unique angle that standard lunges can't touch — especially the glute med and upper glute max.

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Good Morning

intermediate

A barbell hip hinge that builds the posterior chain from glutes to erectors — one of the most effective exercises for teaching the hip hinge pattern under load.

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Reverse Hyperextension

intermediate

A decompressive glute and hamstring exercise that trains hip extension while traction-loading the spine — one of the few exercises that builds your glutes and relieves your lower back simultaneously.

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Romanian Deadlift: The Underrated Booty Builder

intermediate

The Romanian deadlift stretches and loads your glutes and hamstrings like nothing else. Master this movement and you'll unlock the posterior chain gains you've been chasing.

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Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift

intermediate

Build glute strength, hip stability, and bulletproof hamstrings one leg at a time. The ultimate unilateral posterior chain exercise.

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Step-Up: The Underrated Single-Leg Glute Builder

intermediate

Build unilateral glute strength and fix side-to-side imbalances with the step-up — a deceptively simple move that earns its place in any serious program.

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Sumo Deadlift: The Wide-Stance Glute Builder You're Sleeping On

intermediate

The sumo deadlift shifts load onto your glutes and inner thighs in ways a conventional pull simply can't. Your posterior chain will notice.

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Sumo Hip Thrust

intermediate

A wide-stance hip thrust variation that shifts emphasis to the glute medius and inner glute fibers — a powerful way to add shape and completeness to your glute development.

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Nordic Curl

advanced

The hardest bodyweight exercise for your posterior chain — Nordic curls build exceptional glute-ham strength and eccentric hamstring resilience that prevents injury and unlocks new glute performance.

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