Tip Work Glutes While Brushing Your Teeth Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Training Tip Work Glutes While Brushing Your Teeth When your glutes won' t activate during lower body exercises they start to get soft and shapeless Here' s a simple way to keep them round and hard by TC Luoma July 24, 2016August 18, 2019 Tags Tips, Training Sleepy Glutes Flat Butts Glutes around the globe have gone dormant. You see it in men and you see it in women. Instead of firing when called on during lower body exercises, the glutes ignore these people. Eventually, their rear ends start to get soft and shapeless. Then they go flat. Soon, these men and women start tripping when they run because their pants or skirts won't stay up. Test Your Glutes Like This There's a simple way to tell if your glutes aren't firing adequately. Simply try standing on one leg with your eyes closed for 60 seconds. Then repeat with the other. If you can't do it, you're either looped on tequila or your glutes are on permanent siesta. The Test Is Also The Cure Most of us have a number of fitness things we're supposed to do every day. We start out with the best intentions, but soon we forget to do our stretches, foam rolling, rotator cuff work, extra pull-ups, or ab work. The fix for this fitness absent-mindedness is to incorporate these daily "shoulds" into our daily activities. Stretches and/or ab work can be relegated to commercials during whatever show or sporting event you're watching. To do extra pull-ups, hang a bar in the doorway of whatever room you enter the most and don't allow yourself to enter or exit before doing one or more pull-ups. For misfiring or sleeping glutes, simply stand on one leg and then the other with your eyes closed while brushing your teeth before bedtime. Spend at least two or three total minutes doing this. You'll fight glute decay and tooth decay at the same time. Get The T Nation Newsletters Don' t Miss Out Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level related posts Training Can t Add Size to Your Biceps Direct grip and forearm training can be just what you need when arm gains have stalled out. Here’s why, plus a full training program to get you started. Arms, Bodybuilding, Training Charles Poliquin May 7 Training Lucky 13 - Alwyn Cosgrove This is Lucky 13, a rapid fire Q & A session with a training or nutrition expert who matters. It's fast, furious, and to the point. Training Chris Shugart December 21 Training Seven Metabolic Finishers to Burn Fat Burn body fat, improve conditioning, and make each workout an ass kicking success. Here’s how. Conditioning Finishers, Metcon, Training Nick Tumminello January 17 Training Tip Hit Lats Harder with the Unilateral Lat Pulldown If your lats are lagging, you may not be activating them with your regular back training. Try this to really feel them. Exercise Coaching, Tips Christian Thibaudeau February 15