Standing Cable Glute Kickbacks
Trains the glutes. You need a machine. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use Standing Cable Glute Kickbacks
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a glutes exercise that is, there are 7 on the Glutes page.
Muscles worked
What Standing Cable Glute Kickbacks trains
Technique
How to do Standing Cable Glute Kickbacks
- Attach an ankle strap to a low cable pulley and secure it around one ankle. Face the machine and hold the frame with both hands for support, standing with a slight forward lean.
- Keeping your leg straight and your core engaged, kick the strapped leg backward in a controlled arc, squeezing your glute at the top of the movement.
- Pause briefly at full extension, keeping your hips square to the machine.
- Slowly return your leg to the starting position with control. Repeat for the desired number of repetitions, then switch sides.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Avoid arching your lower back; the movement should come from your hip, not your spine.
- Squeeze your glute at the top of each kickback to maximize muscle engagement.
- Use a slow, controlled motion rather than swinging your leg with momentum.
- Exhale as you kick back and inhale as you return to the starting position.
Substitutes
Swap Standing Cable Glute Kickbacks for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run Standing Cable Glute Kickbacks for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.