The Importance of Training Your Glute Medius

🍑 If you're doing exercises to train your glute medius, we need to talk. Training your glute medius is important because a weak one is associated with things like knee pain, lower back pain and even IT band syndrome.

🏋️‍♀️ It's not that exercises like the clamshell are bad, but the problem with them is that they neglect one of the main functions of the glute medius which is to stabilize the pelvis especially on one leg. That's one reason why clamshells don't get a lot of activation in the glute medius when measured by EMG.

🧘‍♂️ So I'll show you a better alternative. Start next to a wall and bring your knee up hip at about 90 degrees. Place that leg flush against the wall. From here rotate your upper leg into the wall. This will create stability to stay upright with the glute medius on the other side. It doesn't look like much but if you do this your glute medius strength and stability will skyrocket.

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