Well done!!!!! Whoever has made it to this 7th and FINAL DAY really deserves a huge medal !🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
And even if you just joined us for a few days, hopefully it has improved your awareness of your glutes and added some warmup exercises to your pre-running regime.
I think I will add these to the 5 minutes before I head out of the house for a walk or run. I do believe they have already made a difference, but it’s difficult to tell.
For me, specifically my calves are not as tight after a run. And as he suggested, when glutes are lazy, the calves have to pick up the slack. So maybe I am not imagining it and these exercises really work to fire up my glutes. That I am more conscious of my glutes when running and walking also probably helps.
So has it helped you? Will you integrate the exercise in some way into your routines? And how?
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🍏Thank you CBDB for the alerts and encouraging us to do this for a week! 🌟. I was definitely well aware of my glutes the first couple of days🫣 …a good sign they had been ignored! It’s such an easy exercise to do as part of my warm up before a run & other days too. Hopefully as I persist with the repeats it will help my running too!
Finally done! At lunchtime outside on my lunchtime walk, 14 reps! But I really felt tired today! So it was a bit of a slow-mo running man with a lot of sighs and groans.
Couldn’t quite tell if balance was better with shoes on, as I was so tired, and thus also used a railing to balance.
We’ll see how it goes once I’ve started to embed it in my pre-run dynamic stretches.
i did them all maybe not in order but i did them ...balance never had that but touched the toes and the other hand kept me upright...its definitely a work in progress and i would love to balance and not wobble so yes will do this before breakfast...its a brilliant challenge
Work in progress is a great phrase. 🤣🤣 I will anlso integrate them into my walks and pre-run stretches.
My main route for walking has a handy railing 5min walk-in, just before heading into a field trail/path. It’s relatively secluded, with only a small car park and a couple of houses’ back windows overlooking. So that’s where I’ll do them, I think.
Alternatively in the house before setting off. I’ll play around with that, a bit.
I'm on Day 4 of this challenge - it is brilliant but I do wobble a bit with the balance. I hope by the end of day 7, I will be able to do the challenge with balance too. Thanks for recommending it - it will certainly help !!
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That’s great ! Slow-mo-running-man on! My balance is pretty awful, but even holding in to something at day 7 still meant I could really feel my glutes working.
Hi Thanks v much for highlighting this. Only signed up couple of days ago but it makes so much sense & is really useful. I am definitely guilty of not using my glutes properly so am looking forward to building strength & greater understanding & improve my running. Despite doing balances in yoga regularly I was surprised by how very wobbly I am when doing this specific exercise!! 😀
I have to say, I have gone and forwards between 1 - 3, because my balance is sooooo bad, which really surprises me as I thought my balance was fairly good. Tonight a did session 3 twice, and I can feel my glutes have definately worked!! I intend to carry on using it, just hoping it will still be available, as it clearly shows I need to build up the strength there.
Went for 8 mile trail road this morning and showed some of my running buddies, and it was hilarious, no one could keep their balance😂. Made me feel so much better!!
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