Hip Thrust (Barbell)
Upper back on a bench and a barbell across the hips, drive the hips up until they are fully extended, then lower. Also called Hip Thrust.
- Pattern
- Hip hinge
- Equipment
- Barbell
- Works
- Glutes, hamstrings
- Loads
- Hips
When it stalls, these usually help
More hip extension from a standing position, so the glutes work at a new angle.
The hamstrings help the thrust, and curls train them directly.
How Swolver coaches it
This lift is read from your own sessions. When it goes flat for four weeks, Swolver names the likely cause in plain words, such as weekly sets that dropped, and the one change to make. The rules are all on the method page.