Dr. Bret Contreras

In fact, I kind of think it's this tight rope we walk where you got to push it hard.

And then all of a sudden you realize you watch a video.

If you record yourself or something, you're like,

yeah, I was progressively overloading and now my form looks ugly.

I got to dial it back.

And that's a common thing we have to do with a lot of exercise.

I realized I was a little too greedy with my progressive overload and my form is compromised.

My range of motion has been compromised.

I'm a little sloppier.

I'm going to reset.

And you have to do that from time to time.

I call it the glute medius hip thrust.

It could be called like a plate standing abduction because you eventually use a plate, but it works the glute medius of the grounded leg, not the up leg.

It works the down leg.

So, absolutely.

Add volume to the lagging part and take some volume away.

You can't just hammer everything.

And I think that's one of the main limiters of, especially men, but also women with glutes.

Like, you want to do every movement there is.

And I want people to understand how easy it is to maintain size and strength.