BUTT EXERCISES
STRAIGHT / STIFF LEG DEADLIFTS
- This is a hard butt exercise, but effective.
Execution
With barbell
- Stand with feet flat under the bar and squat. Grasp the bar at about shoulder width.
- Lift the bar from the ground by extending your knees and hips.
- Keep your knees straight and lower the bar toward the top of your feet by bending your hips, until your hamstrings are tight or just before your lower back would start to bend. Keep your back and knees straight!
- Go back up, straighten yourself by extending your hips. At top pull your shoulders slightly back.
With dumbbells
- Straight leg deadlift with dumbbells is basically the same movement as it is with barbell.
Muscles this butt exercise targets
- Hamstrings and butt muscles overall.
Tips to this butt exericse
- Add weights for more resistance, when this butt exercise starts to feel too easy.
- Never add too much weights, the movement should be always controlled so that your back doesn't get hurt!
- Concentrate so, that when you are pulling the weight up you do all the work with your hamstrings and butt.
- Hamstrings in good condition help you to lift your butt!