Getting enough exercise is important for maintaining good health, but you don’t necessarily have to go to the gym to get your daily dose of physical activity. In fact, there are plenty of exercises and workouts that you can do right in the comfort of your own home.
According to Business Insider, the largest muscles in our bodies, glutes play an important function in maintaining balance and delivering strength while performing actions such as jumping, walking, and running.
Jenna Moore, a qualified strength and conditioning coach, states that powerful glutes improve athletic performance and wellness,where the gluteus maximus, medius, and minimus muscles of the buttocks collaborate with the posterior chain to provide pelvic alignment, hip extension, and increased hip mobility.
HealthLine information hub provides 5 tips to grow your glutes at home:
- Glute bridge: Beginners can safely isolate and strengthen glutes, hamstrings, and core with the glute bridge exercise while improving hip stability, says the information hub.
- Jumping squats: These squats increases heart rate and strengthens the glutes, hips, quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves.
- Walking lunges with dumbbells: This workout is great for strengthening and toning the glutes, as well as targeting the quadriceps and improving balance.
- Single-leg deadlift: The above-mentioned source say that this exercise is more of an advanced exercise which targets your glutes and hamstrings as it challenges your balance and core stability.
- Clamshell: The clamshell exercise works the deep glute muscles, which are frequently disregarded, to stabilise the pelvis, avoid lower back pain, and balance the lower body.
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