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  • Writer's pictureRima Majed

Build Your Glutes with a Simple Pilates Exercise

Pilates is never about only one body part workout. Pilates exercises are capable of doing more than just targeting a specific part of your body. In Pilates even if you are targeting a specific part of your body they take into consideration other parts of your body as well which play a huge role in the mechanism of the body part in focus. Similarly, there are n numbers of pilates Chiswick exercises to tone, tighten, sculpt and lift your backside, which is capable of doing more than just that. Pilates exercises dedicated to working your backside also helps in strengthening your core, building the back muscles of your legs and working abdominal muscles.


Though you can carry out a Pilates workout at home, it is always advised to first get fully used to the dynamics of the Pilates moves for the body parts you are targeting under the supervision of a professional Pilates instructor Chiswick. Pilates Body Shape is a Boutique Pilates studio offering mat as well as reformer Pilates for stronger and sculpted glutes for people of all ages and abilities.

Not all must be aware of this vital fact that the glutes or the muscles that work your butt bears the major pieces of the powerhouse in a core strengthening, flexibility improving, posture correcting and mobility enhancing pilates Chiswick workout.


The glutes are made up of these major muscles that work in tandem to offer your butt the formation and functioning it needs when your walk or workout.

  • Abs muscles

  • Lower back muscles

  • Pelvic floor

  • Hips

  • Butt muscles

All these muscles work in union. When one is targeted or worked on, others get activated automatically. One of the major advantages of doing Pilates is that it not only focuses on working the major muscles, the slow, and smooth and steady movements also work the smaller muscles that get often neglected.


Most effective Pilates Exercise to strengthen your Glutes


Heel Beats

  • Heel beats are one of the most effective Pilates exercises that target your glutes

  • Heel beats instantly put your back muscles as well as your hamstrings and inner thigh muscles at work to strengthen them.

How to do it?

  1. Lie face down on your stomach.

  2. Fold your hands in front of you and rest your forehead on your hands.

  3. Keep your legs straight and close to each other.

  4. Engaging your core muscles, lift your abdomen slightly from the ground. The move will instantly let you feel your spinal cord lengthening.

  5. As you lift your abdominal muscles turn your legs out very minutely at the hip. Pull in your inner things and make sure to keep your heels as tight as possible

  6. As you draw your legs up in the air and away from the mat, continue lifting your abs.

  7. Keep your legs as straight and as stretched as possible

  8. Beat your heels together and apart quickly.

  9. You can repeat the move at least 20 times

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