A quick guide to how we train the Gluteus Maximus at www.fasterglobal.com

1. FASTER Guides
Training the Gluteus Maximus

2. Why we love it!
Vertical displacement!

3. What it gets blamed for!

4. How it gets trained...

5. How muscles work in function
Goals!

6. How muscles work in function
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Closest Skill Selection

7. How muscles work in function
Pre-contemplation reactions

8. How muscles work in function
Initiation of movement

9. How muscles work in function
Bones move

10. How muscles work in function
Joints Feel

11. How muscles work in function
Muscles react!

12. How does it react?
Muscle Name Gluteus Maximus
Joints Crossed Sagittal Frontal Transverse
Hip Flexion Adduction Internal Rotation
Knee Extension / Adduction Internal Rotation
Flexion
Plane Tricky...extremely powerful in all 3 planes!! If I’m
Dominance forced I would say sagittal and transverse...
Combination Opposite iliopsoas in gait required to explode
Reactions through, to provide the platform for success at the
muscles origin.
Muscle Powerful pump, one of the key links between the
Characteristics function of the trunk and lower limb
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13. How should we train it?
Lengthen to shorten!

14. How do we train it?
To
From
this!
this!
Close to the skill!

15. Find out how to do this...
...with every muscle and movement!
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