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Good glute exercise

cafenervosa Posts: 94 Joined: 2004/03/02	2004/04/06, 09:21 AM I need a good glute exercise that doesn't involve squatting in any way. (I broke my back doing squats and cannot tolerate any weight pressing down on the top of my spine or the bending motion involved) We don't have a "donkey kick" machine at my gym, so that's out of the question. What other options do I have?
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2004/04/06, 09:25 AM Lie facing up on a swiss ball - with your head and shoulders on the ball, place dumbbells or a barbell across your hips, lower and raise your hips using your glutes. On hands and knees - lift your knee out to the side like a dog peeing on a fire hydrant, then extend you leg behind you, pull your knee in to your chest, return to start position (the original tea bo series had some killer glute exercises). Doing kickboxing drills also works your glutes fabulously... Let me know how it goes. Can you do leg presses? -------------- If you fall down seven times, get up eight.
cafenervosa Posts: 94 Joined: 2004/03/02	2004/04/07, 07:50 AM Good ideas, but I can't do any kicking, at least not very high or hard, and I can do any kind of seated weights, like leg presses. (Basically anything that supports my back.)
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2004/04/07, 08:20 AM Can you do one legged leg press? It will give you more of a glute workout, inner and outer thigh, pretty much total leg, but more like lunges. -------------- If you fall down seven times, get up eight.
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2004/04/07, 08:21 AM Oh, can you do bridges? Lyiong on your back, feet on flooor, use your glutes/abs to slowly lift your body, starting with tailbone, up into bridge, shoulders on flooor? -------------- If you fall down seven times, get up eight.
cafenervosa Posts: 94 Joined: 2004/03/02	2004/04/07, 02:55 PM I can do 1 legged presses, that's another good idea, not sure about the bridges, I'll have to give it a try. THANKS!
box1988 Posts: 17 Joined: 2004/02/09	2004/04/07, 06:57 PM If you want to combine cardio with your glute training, I would see if you have any Precor EFX ellipticle machines at your gym. They have an incline crossramp that you can move up and down to adjust to what muscles you want to focus on. I'm not sure whether or not it would be bad for your back though...
assante74 Posts: 185 Joined: 2001/10/19	2004/04/07, 08:57 PM Lunges are the best glute exercises.
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2004/04/07, 09:13 PM well when i mese dup my knees prety bad back in the day, and I also mesed my back up. No I didn't break it, but I did strain my back erectors, it felt like I broke it. But the only way I got over it was to do light squats. If you broke your back doing squats you must have been doing somthing wrong in the 1st place. I say unless your doctor says not to, do some light squats maybe in a smith machine, its safe when done ina smith machine, cause you can put your feet further out and keep the back perpinduclar to the floor. It hurt when I did it, but I got threw it, and now i'm back to 100 percent. -------------- .......adversity causes some to break, but others to break records! ......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened ......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn