FROG BRIDGE

The Frog Bridge exercise is a modified Glute Bridge / Hip Thruster strengthening exercise that is used to increase muscle engagement of your hip external rotators. You will feel the muscles in your buttock engage as you lift the pelvis off the ground. To set up place your feel together with your knees spread apart at shoulder distance. Knees are bent to 90 degrees. Keep the core braced as you lift the pelvis off the floor to engage your gluteus maximus muscle.

Muscles Involved:

• Piriformis

• Gluteus Maximus, Posterior Fibers of Gluteus Medius

• Obturator Internus, Obturator Externus

• Quadratus Femoris

Related Conditions:

• Hip OsteoArthritis

• Snapping Hip Syndrome

• Greater Trochanteric Bursitis / Greater Trochanter Pain Syndrome

• Gluteal Tendinopathy

• ITB Syndrome

• Hip Impingement

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