I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you can always count on a fresh workout challenge to fire up some motivation to move. The latest bodyweight exercise challenge to capture my attention? Completing glute bridges every day for seven days.
I get it. Glute bridges might sound niche, but did you know, according to Google, there are between 10, 000 to 100,000 searches for the term each month? Plus, this low-impact move has been named as one of the top glute exercises to help strengthen and tone this area and topped the list of the best Pilates exercises for beginners to master. A 2023 report published in the European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education even went so far to claim that the humble single-banded glute bridge exercise in particular, may be ‘more effective’ in strengthening the gluteus maximus and medius muscles than other exercises, like a turn-out bent knee pulse. So what gives?
