Whether you are a budding male bodybuilder or an experienced one, strengthening your hamstring and glute is very important for making your muscles stronger and improving your overall performance.

A stronger hamstring and glute helps boost your athletic activities and improve your sprinting, running, squatting, cycling and deadlifting performance. Moreover, it also reduces the risk of pain and injuries.

So, for all these reasons and for your overall fitness, we’ve listed below some of the best hamstring and glute workouts that you can do to improve your bodybuilding performance. These exercises will help build your mobility, mass, strength and balance and assist you to perform well in your sport.

The Romanian deadlift is one of the best exercises to build stronger hamstrings and activate your glute muscles.

However, make sure to keep the barbell close to your body and your back absolutely straight throughout the exercise.

Hamstring curls largely target your hamstring muscles and can be done in several ways. You can perform this exercise using a lying machine leg curl or a seated hamstring curl machine, or it can be done as a standing cable leg curl or dumbbell hamstring curl.

Instructions (lying machine leg curls):

Step up, expecially weighted step up, is one of the most effective exercises for toning and strengthening your hamstring and glute muscles. For a weighted step up, you have to hold dumbbells.

The weighted glute bridge helps to strengthen your hamstring, build bigger glutes and also helps improve your overall mobility and balance.

The barbell hip thrust is one of the best hamstring and glute exercises that help make these muscles strong and toned. This exercise activates your erector spine, hamstrings and gluteus maximus muscles.

Weighted split squats are sometimes confused with in-line lunges, but they are quite different. A weighted split squat is a more effective exercise for your hamstring and glute muscles than in-line lunge.

You may also use a smith machine or a dumbbell to perform this exercise.

The cable pull through is a highly productive hamstring and glute exercise. It increases the muscular activation of your glutes and hamstrings and also reduces eccentric muscle damage.

It's always best to perform these exercises under the guidance of a certified trainer. Moreover, if you have had leg or lower-body injuries in the past, consult a doctor before starting your workout to ensure if they are safe for you.

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