26 | Gluteal Amnesia: How to Actually Get Your Butt to Activate | The Optimal Body

26 | Gluteal Amnesia: How to Actually Get Your Butt to Activate

Want to learn how to activate your glutes and grow that booty? Been told you’re more “quad dominant”? Feel more quads, low back, or hamstrings when you workout? Tune in as we explain how to truly activate your glutes and break down what those terms mean. Listen as we explain the biggest mechanical leaks when deadlifting and how to improve your form. Feel like you still can’t get that correct form? Tune in to learn how the Coba Board gives you the exact external cues you may be missing in order to get that perfect deadlift within your own body. Then, don’t forget to catch the YouTube as well as we review other common exercises to perfect your form and maximize those glute gains.

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What You Will Learn in this episode:

01:56 – What “quad dominant” and “glute dominate” mean

04:14 – Why hinge patterns are so important

05:11 – What the Coba Board is and how it promotes “external cues”

07:08 – Most common problems that occur during a hip hinge - How it creates injury

14:18 – Dr. Dom narrates as Dr. Jen demonstrates the wrong way to deadlift

18:18 – How the Coba Board helps correct these problems

20:56 – Verbal external cues on correct deadlift form

To Watch the PT Pearl on YouTube, click here: https://youtu.be/j8NsgrOk0Lk

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