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Squeezing your glutes at the top of a squat doesn't build them. Your glutes do the real work at the bottom, driving you up. Focus on pushing hard out of the hole instead.
Squeezing your glutes at the top of a squat doesn't build them. Your glutes do the real work at the bottom, driving you up. Focus on pushing hard out of the hole instead.
If you are doing this exercise and you are squeezing your glutes at the top, while this might be good for your partner finding that extra inch, it's not very good for working your glutes. And here's why. Even though if you stand here and squeeze your glutes to feel them, that doesn't mean your glutes are actually working. The top of the squat isn't the hard part. Your glutes do the most work at the bottom. Of the squat because they have to work to push you back up from the bottom. And no, you might not feel your glutes at the bottom of a squat like you would if you stood up and squeezed them, but that doesn't mean your glutes aren't still working. So focus less on humping, focus more on pushing out of the bottom, and I promise you'll grow a nice juicy dump truck that everybody wants to touch.
