- Lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat on the ground. Place a barbell across your hips and grasp it with both hands.
- Keeping your arms straight, push through your heels to lift your hips off the ground and raise the barbell.
- Hold the bridge position for a moment, then slowly lower your hips back to the starting position.
- Hold the end of the bar in a goblet position.
- Push your hips back and break at the knees.
- Reach at least parallel with the ground before pushing through your heels back to the starting position.
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Maintain the natural arch in your back and put the bar on your back. Squeezing your shoulder blades and raise your chest.
- Grip the bar across your shoulders and support it on your upper back. Unwrack the smith machine by straightening your legs.
- Bend your knees as you lower the weight without altering the form of your back until your hips are below your knees.
- Raise the bar back to starting position, lift with your legs and exhale at the top.
- Use an ankle attachment. The cable should be set to the bottom of the crossover machine.
- Break at the knee, push your ankle straight back, extending at the hip. Hold for a one count when you feel a contraction in your glutes.
- Then flex at the hips until you are back into your original position.
