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In a bid to impress his new girlfriend, George takes up hip thrusts, resulting in a noticeably plumper posterior. While initially thrilled with his newfound physique, George soon discovers that his enhanced backside has attracted unwanted attention from women, reducing him to a mere object of their desires. Torn between his longing for genuine connection and the confidence that comes with his objectified physique, George finds himself in a predicament of vanity.

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Sure, squats and deadlifts activate the glutes in different positions, but the hip thrust is an excellent exercise to get a maximal glute contraction in the hips extended position, something that is overlooked in most programming.

Too many times, we say things like just do a squad or just dead lift, and you will grow amazing glutes. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are too many other muscles that played during his exercises, and if you really want to have strong, effective gluteal muscles doing things at the barbell hip thrust in which the hardest part of the movement is when you were at the top and most extended, his position could be a helpful and very effective additional exercise to your program.

In a study by Worrel et al. 2015, it was shown that this was a significant advantage for the hip thrust exercise via EMG testing. This could be possibly due to the hips extended position + being perpendicular with the pull of gravity during the hardest part of the lift making it a novel and targeted 🎯 glute max activator.

Consider adding a closed chain exercises that as the barbell hip thrust to your regimen if you would like to add a different type of glute stimulus to your lower body days!