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Activation, like I mentioned, is incredibly important before a lower body workout, so don’t skimp on it. Do the move slowly, while engaging the core and back and keeping the torso still. Meanwhile,you can also incorporate fire hydrants as an activation exercise, to wake up the glutes before a weighted workout. Or, use ankle weights to make the exercise a little more resistance-based and perhaps follow it up with another glute-based exercise. Seriously, if you want to grow or shape your glutes, get down to the gym, lift some weights, eat plenty of good food and be patient. Perhaps try to avoid bringing your legs out too far either side and only bring them up to a comfortable angle. If you do this exercise though and you do feel pain in your lower back, then stop, or assess your form. This exercise didn’t hurt my back, but I definitely felt it working as I attempted to keep my torso straight and avoided the temptation to rotate my hips. My back felt itĪs I mentioned, the fire hydrant exercise also engages the back, particularly the lower back known as the lumbar spine. Take a look at our feature on progressive overload explained for more on this.

You'll need to add weight and keep challenging your body to get results.

#Fire hydrant tv

Doing 50 fire hydrants is great before a glute-based workout to wake up the muscles in preparation for weighted exercises activation is super important before any workout.īut, if you think doing 50 fire hydrants every evening in front of the TV will give you the bum of dreams, well, you may disappointed. In fact, walking up a hill several times would probably do more for me. It certainly didn’t do anything for mine. My bum didn't become rounderĪs a standalone bodyweight exercise, the fire hydrant won’t really have much impact on the shape and size of your butt. It will re-activate the muscles and potentially help prevent other muscles from doing their work, in turn avoiding injury.

This is a good exercise if you’ve been sitting down all day perhaps, and are feeling like your butt is a little bit ‘unused’. And that’s what I felt whilst doing fire hydrants.

Naturally, an exercise that keeps a muscle under tension for a period of time will elicit some kind of ‘burn’ and you’ll feel the muscle firing up.

#Fire hydrant cracked

So, is the ‘50 fire hydrants a day for three weeks challenge’ all it’s cracked up to be? Here's what happened. The fact that throughout this move, the torso is expected to remain still and engaged, also gives our core, but more specifically our back, a workout too and engages many of the tiny muscles that are often neglected.