Here’s another exercise snack, a small bit of exercise to break up your day and get you moving. This one’s a two-minute standing glute workout. With it, you’ll activate the glute muscles and also stretch the front of the hips and shoulders, both of which have a tendency to get tight.
While these exercises focus on the glutes, they work a fair number of other muscles as well. In the first exercise, you’re activating your whole posterior chain of muscles as you work your shoulders, back and hips into extension. It’s the perfect antidote to the rounded shoulder and flexed posture that most of us fall into during the day.
The second exercise is one of the most functional exercises we do – these squats mimic the up and down from sit to stand that we do countless times throughout our day. For great results, be mindful as you coordinate the action of the glutes, quads, and back extensors in this movement.
This two-minute standing glute workout is enhanced by proper weight bearing through the feet. Good alignment of the foot translates to better alignment and biomechanics at the knee and hip joint. See below for more on how to achieve this.
In the meantime, keep snacking and stay fit!
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