The hip thrust is a great exercise for your leg day, since it strengthens your glutes, core and the entire posterior chain.

Alternatively, you can use resistance bands or just your bodyweight, and some facilities have weight machines designed specifically for hip thrusts." During a hip thrust, you engage five muscles ...

If you need a single-leg hip thrust alternative, try a single-leg glute bridge. Stand facing away from a cable machine with a rope handle set at the lowest position, to start. Grab the rope ...

Stand it up next to you, sit down, and lower it onto your lap. Use this hack to do hip thrusts on the leg extension machine. Just make sure the machine is bolted to the floor--there's a viral fail ...

“I now do my hip thrusts almost exclusively on the smith machine because I don’t have to worry about balance and can focus on (perfecting) form and time under tension. “I really focus on contro ...

“Hip thrusts, hip thrust machines, Romanian deadlifts—these will offer a safer way to load the glutes [in this shortened position] and still challenge the same thing,” he says. When you’re ...

Squats may be king when it comes to strengthening our lower body, but the hip thrust is the gold when it comes to building our backside. The glutes house the largest and most powerful muscle in ...

And while some hip thrust machines in gyms have built-in cushioning, most standard barbells don’t. Which is why a quality pad is a must. What to look for in a barbell pad Pads come in different ...

"I now do my hip thrusts almost exclusively on the smith machine because I don't have to worry about balance and can focus on [perfecting] form and time under tension. "I really focus on control.