Finally!!!

After much delay and camera fiddling, we have ACTUALLY got a video blog ready to roll!

Remember how I promised you this like 2 WEEKS ago? Talk about procrastinating.

There were all kinds of hassles getting this ready – the camera wasn’t working, the video quality was bad, my apartment was a mess – but like I spoke about in my previous blog post, you can’t always wait until everything is perfect or you’ll never get anything done. So I figured to hell with all the hassles, just get the video up!

So here it is, in all it’s glory:

I tried to get through the exercises quickly so as not to make the video too long, so I hope everything is clear and easy to follow. (Btw, a quick mention of HUGE thanks to my always beautiful fiancee Stephanie who did some wicked good cinematography in her first time behind the camera!)

Now for a quick recap of each of the exercises:

1) Glute Squeeze: Just squeeze those cheeks as hard as you can for about 10 seconds.

2) X-Band Walks: Get a resistance band and strap it around your feet like shown in the video. Then take small steps from side to side until you feel the little burn going on in your glutes.

3) Mini Band Walks: Same thing as X-Band Walks but instead of the resistance band you’re using a mini-band put just above your knees. keep the knees no closer than shoulder width apart and don’t do the ‘weeble-wobble’ (technical term)!

4) Glute Bridges: The classic exercise that everyone knows, and still the best. Get your heels dug into the ground and squeeze your glutes until your body makes a straight line from your shoulders to your knees. Don’t lower all the way to the ground on the way down; stop an inch above the ground and then go back up so that you keep the tension on the muscle.

5) Bird Dogs: Get on all fours and kick your right leg back while reaching your left arm up and forward. Lower and repeat on the other side. This exercse has way more benefit than you may realize while you do it.

So there you go! 5 ways to get those glutes firing. To be honest, there are a bunch more exercises that I could show you for this, but these will serve you well for now. If you’re not doing them yet, get started! If you are, keep doing them as often as you can.

Coming up next: Glute strength exercises! We will go more in depth with these and give you some great ways to firm up your butt and get it in shape without any fancy equipment. We’ll just be using good, old fashioned bodyweight and maybe a dumbell or two.

Stay tuned!