As someone who works at a desk for eight hours a day with my glutes just sat chilling, I regularly struggle to get them fired up during a workout, especially my glute medius (the small muscle that sits at the top of your bum). It doesn’t matter how many compound exercises I do, like a deadlift, or even isolation exercises, like glute bridges, nothing gets that tiny muscle going, which is essential for that ‘perky’ butt-lift look. That’s until my previous coach introduced me to this resistance band exercise and it’s the only thing that’s helped perk the top of my booty up.
The exercise I speak of isn’t anything revolutionary, quite the opposite in fact – it’s a banded step out. Now, you may be thinking ‘that’s one of the most common glute exercises in the book’, you’re right, but whereas this exercise is often performed with a small ‘booty band’ I was made to do it with a long resistance band and it made a world of difference. Even my sister, who at first was criticising the move saying it just looked like we were doing a weird step out dance, struggled with the last few reps.
