Top 10 Women's Glute Workout Routines

Having a well-shaped glute also known as the butt is the dream of most women. This is because it gives you the full confidence to showcase your astonishing backside.

If you desire to have that curvy figure backside with a good-looking shaped butt just like the models or superstars you admire out there, it can be achieved if you put it some decent effort. There are several butt workouts for women to help prevent dead butt syndrome and also enhance butt building for a good purpose. As a saying goes thus: "if you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." - Thomas Jefferson.

Okay, straight the purpose of this post,  let's reveal the top 10 women's glute workout routines.These routines include a step-by-step movement pattern to make it easy for you to execute:

The unilateral stiff-leg deadlift is a glute workout routine that is simple, yet effective for simultaneously intensifying and toning the butt muscles and enhancing balance. The equipment needed for you to perform this workout is either a dumbbell or kettlebell.

However, you can also perform this workout without any weights attached especially if you are just getting started, thereby making it a part of your lower body strength and toning routine. It is recommended for you to do this glute workout after a warmup when you are still fresh. As it is a befitting workout for legs and butt to keep them lighten up.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Firstly, get ready with your feet close together, then hold a dumbbell in one of your hands with an overhand grip and extend your arm. Let your head be raised and a tight arch in the smaller part of your back.
• After that, bend your right knee slightly and keep your suspended leg straight and locked, then hinge at the hips to lower your torso toward the floor.
  
  

This is a workout that helps provide you unilateral leg strength for better balance, improvement in hip stability, and reduces weakness that put a hold on bilateral leg strength. The combo of the lateral step-up with a kickback that is done targets the glutes and legs workout which works both the adductors and abductors.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Get a box-shaped structure by your side.
• Then step sideways on the box with your right leg by contracting and squeezing your abs and left glute respectively as you stretch your left leg straight behind you in a kickback style.
• Wait for a while after, and release the glute and alight gently off the box with your left leg, followed by your right.
  
  

A split squat when done properly helps in increasing your leg strength and enhances flexibility. It is a compound leg workout that works multiple muscles in the lower part of your body which includes your quadriceps, hip flexors, hamstrings, and both of your glutes. When one glute gets stretched, the other is being contracted.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• To get started, give a few feet distance in front of a bench and carefully stretch one foot back to rest it on top of the bench.
• Then lower your torso down toward the ground ensuring your knee is behind your toes. Rise straight by pressing through the heel of your front leg and squeezing your glute.
  
  

The muscles trained during this workout are three, namely, the gluteus medius, gluteus minimus, and the gluteus maximus. These muscles enhance your hips and knees' stabilization to keep you strong and healthy. 

As you know that it is rare for you to sidewalk normally without a certain circumstance involved, which makes the side band walking workout resonate with strengthening the underused muscles while also improving flexibility, balance, and increasing your spatial awareness.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Firstly, tie a resistance band below your knees and lower your body into a quarter squat position.
• Maintaining your abs tight and staying in the quarter-squat, then step forward with your right leg and with your left leg next, ensuring tension is being kept on the resistance band throughout.
  
  

Medicine ball hip thrusts workout is good for targeting your glutes muscles for an increase in strength, size, and to activate your hamstrings, and developing your backside when properly performed. In fact, the hip thrusts are great for building and powering up your lower-body stability.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Rest your back on the floor with your heels on a small medicine ball, and your knees bent.
• Then contract your abs and squeeze your glutes and hamstrings to thrust your hips upward. Wait for a while and lower your body three-quarters back to the floor with your abs contracted.
  
  

This is a variation of the leg press and a workout used to build the muscles of the legs. It basically aims at muscle-building of the quadriceps which also targets other parts of the body such as the glutes, calves, and hamstrings. The wide stance position during this workout transmits the action from the quads to the glutes and hamstrings.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Lie your back in a 45° leg press machine, then place your feet high resting on the machine platform at the top outside corners with your toes pointing out at 45° angles.
• Release weight from your feet, then bend your knees to lower the machine platform toward your chest. Wait for a second, then squeeze your glutes and hamstrings to return the weight up.
  
  

The leg press kickback targets the middle portion and upper crest of the glutes. It helps to exercise several muscle groups such as glutes, hamstrings, and core which comprise of activating the hamstring on the back of your legs as you lift them behind you, and the core acting as a stabilizer during kickbacks.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Rest your stomach and elbow on the back pad of the press machines and put one of your feet in the middle of the machine platform.
• Release the weight and press your foot back at an angle of 45° by straightening your leg and then squeezing the glutes at the top.
  
  

This is a great workout that should be done when your legs are still fresh and you can focus on the glutes. The single-leg smith machine box squat is a good machine-based workout that provides more stability. Also, the movement pattern can be programmed in low reps for strength or higher reps for muscle endurance.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Let your back maintain a flat position, then lower your body until your working quad is past parallel to the floor. 
• Shift your hips forward with the help of your heel and squeeze your glutes to return to a standing position.
  
  

A single-leg stability ball glute cable kickback workout routine provides a wider range of motion, thereby working one leg at a time which helps erase muscle imbalances and keeps the glutes stretching and contracting.

Additionally, it offers constant tension to your glutes during movement while there is no resting point since the cable will keep pulling against you, hence making the target muscles work harder for longer.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Place your stomach on a stability ball with your upper thighs resting on it as well, then place the toes of your other foot behind you on the floor.
• Let your knee be kept bent, and raise your heel upward with your hips rested into the ball. Wait for a while and squeeze your glute, then bring your toe back to the floor slowly. 
  
  

This is a compound and high-intensity workout routine that requires the powerful muscles in your lower body to perform a squat while the muscles in your upper body contract to execute the push-press phase as you throw a ball against a wall. For added resistance, it is a great idea to hold a pair of dumbbells while performing this workout.

Step-by-step movement pattern:

• Stand uprightly with your back facing a wall and a stability ball between it. 
• Then keep your feet flat on the floor, and squat down gently so that the ball behind you rolls up to your back till your quads are past parallel to the floor level. Stay for a second, and raise your toes into the air to push through your heels as you lift back to the initial position, thereby rotating your glutes and hams inwardly.

There you have it! Now that you have known the top 10 women's glute workout routines, then it is to your own advantage to execute all explained workout routines with the step-by-step movement patterns so that you can achieve your desired glute improvements swiftly.