Dr. Bret Contreras

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you belt squat a ton of weight, you're strong in the flex position, but not the squeeze position.

When you start getting that squeeze position strong, good things tend to happen across the body.

So it's not just for, it's for function too.

And I've heard just so many stories over the years of people going, man, when I started hip thrusting, my lower body mechanics changed, my function changed.

I no longer get this type of pain.

I feel myself being more functional.

So you do it for a function too.

But I think it really adds to the glute growth because every man is sold with isolation movements or single joint movements.

And it's weird because I've noticed men kind of getting salty of this glute

phenomenon this glute training phenomenon so if you know i i've never heard like say you were doing you posted a video of yourself doing curls on your instagram you're not going to get a bunch of men that go bro just do chin ups lol bro just do pulled supinated pull downs you're wasting your time with that

We all know that.

If you're trying to maximize your arm size, yes, you can get big arms if you have a really strong bench press, dips, shoulder press, you know, chin up, pull down in rows.

You're going to have big arms, but they're going to get bigger if you add in some dedicated elbow flexion and extension work.

Everyone knows that.

And all the women know that with glutes too.

It's the men that tend to have a problem.

They like the old days, like in my day, we did this.

And they want to say, quit wasting your time with those silly hip thrusts or those kickbacks or that abduction.

Just do squats and deadlifts and lunges.