This is useful for athletes, yoga teacher and yoga practitioners.

The "underbutt" is generaly an overlooked and underused area that is powerful when it's active. It's technically the very bottom tip of your glute maximus. And it's underused and usually weak. By awakening this part of your derriere you get a lot more power in your gait.

Athletes love this because it makes the running gait a lot smoother and more efficient and racing times tend to improve.

This is the part of your butt that hikers love because it powers your body up the hill, putting less pressure and strain on the knee joints and hip joints.

People recovering from injury love it because it allows hip flexors to relax more in standing and walking and sitting. Walking feels more like floating and there's less wear and tear in the hip joint.

And here's the wonderful part (and also the hard part). Less is more. Because to awaken a muscle, we have to isolate it. We have to make sure that other muscles aren't doing its job. So attention to detail is needed here. And it's a less is more kind of thing.

Tune in and see what I mean. We love to hear about your experiences with these kinds of things because it can be useful in so many areas of your life so let us know how it goes in the comments.

**This is a tutorial of an exercise from the 20-minute Biomechanics-Based Yoga Practice on March 6th, 2024.