Glute Training Benefits
You may ask yourself ‘are glutes worth training?’ The answer is yes. Glute training can provide you with so many benefits.
In this article, we will discuss the six main reasons you should train your glutes. If you need glute exercise suggestions to get started, be sure to check out my article featuring the best glute exercises.
Better Alignment
Training your glutes can lead to better alignment and posture of your entire body. Weak glutes can lead to misalignment of your torso and pelvis. This can cause tight hip flexors and hip pain.
To fix this problem, you can add glute bridges, glute kickbacks and hip flexor stretches into your routine.
Better Sports Performance
Stronger glutes can also help you to improve your sports performance, power and speed. Strong glutes can propel you more powerfully and can help you run faster, spike higher, or rebound better. Strong glutes can truly improve your performance in any sport.
Reduce Lower Back Pain
Back pain is so common and over 80 percent of Americans will experience a bout of back pain at some point in their life. Strong glutes can reduce pain by improving positioning and stabilization.
By learning how to lift with your glutes and hamstrings instead of your lower back, you also reduce the stress on your lower back.
This spine sparing strategy can go a long way towards helping you prevent or reduce lower back pain.
Reduce Hip Pain
Strong glutes help you stabilize your femur during hip extension and help prevent anterior femoral glide, which can cause hip pain and irritation.
If you want to reduce hip pain while improving your hip movement mechanics, you need to train your glutes.
Prevent Knee Injuries
Strong glutes can also help you prevent knee injuries and knee pain. Strong glutes, especially the medial glutes, can help you stabilize your knees and prevent patellar tracking problems, improve your landing mechanics and prevent ACL tears.
To give yourself the best chance against knee injuries and knee pain, you need to strengthen your glutes.
Improve Strength
Your glutes are strong, powerful muscles. If you want to lift heavy weights, you must develop strong glutes. Even outside of squats, deadlifts and lunges, you should perform isolation exercises like weighted hip thrusts and clamshells to truly reach your potential.
Final Thoughts
What do you think? How have stronger glutes benefited your life? Let me know in the comment section below.
