It seems everyone has a problem with their glutes right now. At least every second person that visits my clinic, tells me that another therapist has told them that their glutes are inactive/weak/not firing or insert any other glute related term that is the flavour of the month right now. 

Funnily enough, 10 years ago, this isn't a thing that I heard so much. So have we all gotten weak butts all of a sudden? Heck even K-Mart now sells a set of bands to get the masses to crabwalk and clamshell their butts back to burliness.

But are all of your glute exercises and squats actually fixing the issue with your glutes?

Here I'll answer this, as well as leaving the question open, as to why are the 2 most popular glute exercises named after sealife?

Is sitting the problem....?

It could be argued that the rise in the need to fire up everyone's glutes is related to the increased time we spend sitting. As a result, it is said, our pelvis position anteriorly tilts, meaning the glutes are...