Top Benefits of Having Strong Glutes

Your glutes aren’t the glamour muscles everyone works hard to show on the beach or by the pool.  However, they can be a good indication of how you carry yourself and how you maintain your body for performance.  Glutes are part of your core muscle group.  With a strong core, you can help bring out your beach muscles even more.  You’ll achieve better overall results when you have a strong core.  Having strong glutes helps you improve your posture, prevents injury, reduces back pain and improves athletic performance.

Improved Posture

Few things are as simple as good posture for making improvements.  Standing taller makes you look and feel stronger.  At some point, we’ve all caught ourselves slouching.  Our immediate reaction is to stretch, extend our arms and head straight up and make an effort to sit, stick straight.  Same goes for standing.  You can add a few inches to your height simply by not slouching.

Athletic Performance

Strong glutes can also help you on the field, on the court or any other sports arena you are in.  Your glutes help you with that initial push, or thrust.  That initial burst of speed you need to get off the line in a race, a kick through the ball, or a push during a power lift.  Few things feel better than when you can shave a few seconds off of your time or add a few pounds to your lift, simply because you have a stable and strong core.  Personal trainers thrive at creating programs for you to get the most out of your athletic performance.

Injury Prevention

The fastest way to end your day of play is getting injured.  The same can be said for the quickest way to cut a workout short.  Injuries stink.  They kill momentum and can knock you out of competition for days, weeks or months depending on the severity of the injury.  Strong glutes help you to stabilize you. You’ll have better balance, posture (as mentioned above) and more control over steadying yourself.  You can be strongest at your extremities,  when you are strongest at your core.

Defeat Back Pain

The king of all reasons to want to have strong glutes.  Back pain strikes everyone from high performing athletes to parents carrying their toddlers everywhere to young student athletes.  Personally, I have back pain less often now that I have incorporated several lower back and glute work into my workouts.  Plus, Back pain can be chronic, last for days, leave and come back at any time.  Keeping up with your lower back and glute exercises, such as deadlifts and squats, will help you stave off back pain. 

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