5 Workouts Targeting Glutes – Try One This Week!

With squats and lunges, do you find yourself only feeling it in your thighs instead of also in your bum? Difficulty activating the gluteal muscles is a common issue! The following workouts targeting glutes will specifically get you to engage your butt instead of just the thighs (although they’ll be working, too). Give one of the following a try this week!

5 Workouts Targeting Glutes

1. 25-Minute Ankle Weight Butt Workout

NEW VIDEO ALERT! This is an older workout from 2014 that I just updated with a follow-along video and new pictorial demonstrating much-improved form. 😉 When I first did it four years ago, I remember being super sore the next day. Revisiting it just last week, it didn’t feel nearly as challenging. That’s the cool thing about repeating old workouts—it’s a great way to gauge progress. Cheers to a stronger butt!

2. No-Squat Butt Workout (Bodyweight)

 

This one will take you 20 minutes to complete and no equipment is needed. There’s no jumping around either, so it’s a good one if you prefer low-impact workouts.

3. Legs & Butt Kettlebell Workout with Cardio

Hammies and glutes, baby. No video for this one (yet) but a pictorial, as always, is included in the blog post. Since there’s no video with me reminding you about form throughout it, I only want you to do this one if you’re experienced with kettlebells. Because this workout contains a lot of front-weighted exercises, you *will* feel it in your back. It should be a productive feeling (strengthening) not a painful feeling (straining). If your back feels strained doing these exercises, use a lighter weight or just start out with bodyweight.

4. Resistance Band Loop Superset Workout

 

This one is a crowd favorite over on YouTube. It’ll take you 15 minutes to complete and you’ll just need a mini band (resistance band loop).

5. 15-Minute Lateral Lower Body Workout (No Equipment)

 

This was one of the first videos I posted to YouTube so don’t judge the quality. 😉 It focuses on lateral movements to hit the abductors (think glutes, outer hips/thighs area). It’ll take 15 minutes and no equipment is needed.

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BONUS: Remember that Deck of Cards Workout I posted last week? It’s full-body, but the consensus among everyone who’s tried it is that their BUTT was really feeling it the next day (I wholeheartedly and wholebuttedly agree).

If you don’t see what you’re looking for here, check out my main category page for butt workouts where you’ll see every routine I’ve posted targeting the glutes, organized chronologically.

Have you tried any of the above workouts? Which was your favorite?

xo Nicole (I might need to cut the “xo” stuff—every time I type it I automatically think “xoxo Gossip Girl” lol)