Okay…this clearly applies to those desk jockeys and desk divas who are sitting all day long. but it also applies to non sitting individuals who just might structurally have short hips flexors and a lordotic spinal curve.
How do you tell if you have a lordotic spinal curve? Stand with your feet and shoulder blades against a wall. If you can fit a full arm behind the small between your lower back and the wall then you have a lordotic spinal curve. This means short hip flexors and stretched glutes.
A few questions:
Do you find it hard to feel your glutes in your training? Be honest…I mean really feel them.
Does your butt now look like it is an extension of your thights? It might be a hard truth but you may have the dreaded pancake butt.
Before you go and grab some syrup…read on!!
We all know how important it is to work every muscle group so that your body is not just visually balanced but also functionally balanced.
The glutes are a very important piece of this equation. You can not engage effectively in many exercises without proper glute recruit. This could put you behind in not just your goals for a beautious booty but also for proper development in other muscles groups as well.
I came across this great blog posted on stronglifts, it shows clearly how to identify poor glute activitation but also demonstrates hip mobility and conditioning work that you can do to improve glute activation.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://stronglifts.com/how-to-optimize-posterior-chain-power-glute-activation/
Quite truly we can all benefit from glute activation training.
