Flutter Kicks

BeginnerBody onlyCompoundPullStrength
Flutter Kicks — start position
Flutter Kicks — end position

How to do it

  1. On a flat bench lie facedown with the hips on the edge of the bench, the legs straight with toes high off the floor and with the arms on top of the bench holding on to the front edge.
  2. Squeeze your glutes and hamstrings and straighten the legs until they are level with the hips. This will be your starting position.
  3. Start the movement by lifting the left leg higher than the right leg.
  4. Then lower the left leg as you lift the right leg.
  5. Continue alternating in this manner (as though you are doing a flutter kick in water) until you have done the recommended amount of repetitions for each leg. Make sure that you keep a controlled movement at all times. Tip: You will breathe normally as you perform this movement.

Muscles worked

Primary:Glutes
Secondary:Hamstrings

Programming this lift? The warm-up calculator builds your ramp, and the 1RM calculator sets your percentages.

More glutes exercises

All glutes exercises →

This is one card in your program builder

Trainers on AirFit drag movements like this into programs — demo media included — and clients follow them and log sets in AirFit on iOS, Android or the web. Lifters: AirFit Coach can program it for you, or find a human coach.