Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

So maybe you have super skinny legs and you don't like your flat backside.

Maybe you want your butt to look better in jeans or a swimsuit,

or perhaps you simply can't seem to generate the muscular

force you want while lifting weights, running, or riding a bike. Well, whether you're pursuing,

performance or power, this episode will expound on a previous episode I did called How to Tone

Your But and will give you a better butt, show you what your butt muscles actually do,

give you good butt muscle exercises, and teach you a simple four, show you what your butt muscles actually do, give you good butt muscle

exercises, and teach you a simple four-step solution to get those glutes firing. So why do you

even need a better butt? Well, a common imbalance, even among good athletes, is a weak butt. This is the

result of a combination of a sitting profession that might keep your butt muscles turned off all day long,

followed by hitting the gym, running, cycling, or doing any other form of exercise with those inactivated butt muscles.

When this happens, it creates three problems.

Number one, you lose the aesthetic appeal of having nice glutes.

Number two, you get low back pain as your pelvic

joint overcompensates for a weak butt. And number three, you just can't generate as much power

as you should be able to generate with your hips and your legs. Now, to understand how to work

your butt, you first need to have a quick understanding of what the butt muscles actually are,

because your butt is comprised of

several muscles. The first is your gluteus maximus, which is one of the largest and strongest

muscles in your body. It starts at your hip and ends on your upper leg bone. The gluteus maximus

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