As part of a full-body weight training routine, my trainer introduced me to a new move: the hip thrust. Sitting on the ground with my back against a flat bench, I put a light barbell over my hips.

Hip thrusts are a great glute-building exercise, so personal trainer Lena Aiello set out to do them every day, to find out how to make them more effective.

5. Single-Leg Hip Thrust While the glute bridge is a good beginner-friendly bodyweight leg exercise, more advanced athletes can progress to a single-leg hip thrust.

Squats may be king when it comes to strengthening our lower body, but the hip thrust is the gold when it comes to building our backside. The glutes house the largest and most powerful muscle in ...

Fitness trainers explain the many benefits of barbell hip thrusts, how to do the exercise correctly, and other moves that work the same muscles.

Fitness trainers explain the many benefits of barbell hip thrusts, how to do the exercise correctly, and other moves that work the same muscles.

Try this: Do bodyweight hip thrusts first. Practice keeping your back straight (avoid arching) and planting your heels firmly.

Dryland training for swimmers builds strength and power, do hip thrusts for more glute strength and faster starts off the blocks.

You can grow size, strength, and definition in your glutes with these two hip thrust alternatives and no barbells ...

By day nine, I’d done 300 reps of hip thrusts, whether that be bodyweight, single-leg or barbell. As I got used to the mechanics and started to nail the technique, I began to focus on my breath ...