3 Reasons to Care About Your Butt That Have Nothing to Do With Looks

You might be concerned about sculpting a strong booty to fill out your favorite pair of jeans, but there’s so much more to a tight tush than the way your pants fit! The glutes are our largest muscle group, and virtually every movement carried out by the lower body requires their activation.  Your backside consists of three major muscles: the glute maximum, glute medius, and glute minimus. .This important group of muscles extends the hip (pulls the thigh behind you), abducts the hip (your lateral movement to the side), and does internal and external rotation of hip. In short, they’re incredibly important, but they’re often weak and underworked.

But your backside is deceptively difficult to train. For starters, many people suffer from “gluteal amnesia,” a condition in which the glute muscles act like… well, like lazy asses. Due to the hours we sit behind desks and in front of screens – and compounded by inadequate training – the glute muscles eventually sitback on their haunches and let the hamstrings and lower-back muscles take over their main job of extending the hips and rotating our femurs in their sockets. over time, this can lead to back, hip, or knee pain – as well as a severe case of pancake butt.

When you build a stronger booty, here are a few of the benefits you can expect.

Beat back pain: I couldn’t believe how much of my lower back pain dissipated after I started concentrating on building up my glute muscles. Your glutes work to stabilize the pelvis and keep integrity of movement in the hip joint. When they’re strong, your lower back doesn’t bear the brunt of your motion.

Increase athletic performance: If you want to be a stronger athlete, it’s time to start squatting. Stronger glutes will improve your speed, agility, and jumping skills, and quick side-to-side movements will also become much easier. Every time you take a step, your glute max shores up your pelvis and SI joint for stability. When you run, this is even more important, since the force of impact increases exponentially on each foot strike.

Prevent knee pain: Strong glute meds keep the pelvis stable from swaying side to side. When your pelvis isn’t stable, it puts a lot of pressure on your knees and ankles to compensate. When your backside is strong, it helps prevents this naturally, keeping you safe from injury.

Now you know what your glutes do for you, so here are four moves you can do for them!

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