What are the best exercises for strengthening the hips and glutes?

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Ben Cartwright · Answer

What are the best exercises for strengthening the hips and glutes? I've got to say that I'd always lean towards single-leg unilateral exercises for players. Things like Split Squats, Lunge variations I love because you get in there flexibility benefit, as well as the strength benefit. Also, you can work in different planes, which is obviously something that players will be doing within a game. And it will also show any sort of asymmetries. You'll find a lot of players will be stronger, more stable on one side. So you're able to work both with that unilateral exercise. What I'm going to do on this one as well, because there's so many variations out there that you can use, I'll post a link to an Instagram post that we put on recently of one of my favorites. So check it out below.

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"What are the best exercises for strengthening the hips and glutes?"