Glute Kickback

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Glute Kickback — start position
Start
Glute Kickback — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryGlutes
SecondaryHamstrings

How to do it

  1. 01

    Kneel on the floor or an exercise mat and bend at the waist with your arms extended in front of you (perpendicular to the torso) in order to get into a kneeling push-up position but with the arms spaced at shoulder width. Your head should be looking forward and the bend of the knees should create a 90-degree angle between the hamstrings and the calves. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    As you exhale, lift up your right leg until the hamstrings are in line with the back while maintaining the 90-degree angle bend. Contract the glutes throughout this movement and hold the contraction at the top for a second. Tip: At the end of the movement the upper leg should be parallel to the floor while the calf should be perpendicular to it.

  3. 03

    Go back to the initial position as you inhale and now repeat with the left leg.

  4. 04

    Continue to alternate legs until all of the recommended repetitions have been performed.

In the app

Glute Kickback needs no kit, so it appears whenever the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

Same pattern, with kit

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With bodyweight
With cable

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