Squat
Stand holding a barbell resting across your upper traps and shoulders, hands wider than shoulder-width apart. Place your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart, feet angled slightly outward. With your chest high, head up and back slightly arched, bend your knees and hips as if you're sitting back in a chair until your thighs are parallel to the floor. Reverse the motion by driving through your heels and pressing your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Training Tip: To maximize glute involvement, use a wider stance and descend until your thighs are 2-3 inches below parallel, also keep your glutes tight throughout the full range of motion.

Walking Lunge
Stand holding a bar across your shoulders and traps or dumbbells at arms length down at your sides. Take a 2-3-foot step forward, then bend your front knee until it forms a 90-degree angle and your front thigh is parallel to the floor. Your trailing knee shouldn't touch the floor. Lunge up and forward by pushing off through the heel of your front - not your back - foot. Bring your trailing leg forward into a starting position. Alternate legs as you move across the floor.
Training Tip: To increase the intensity and glute involvement, don't allow your trailing leg to rest at the finish point. Instead, step through to the next rep without stopping.

Glute-Ham Raise
Lie facedown on a glute-ham bench. Be sure to position the support pad so it hits you at the mid-thigh level. Lean over and start the movement as you would a traditional back extension. Once your torso is parallel to the ground, continue pulling with your glutes and hamstrings until you approach a 45-degree angle to the floor. Pause momentarily, squeezing your glutes hard, then lower your torso back down under control.
Training Tip: Be sure to contract not only your glutes but also your hamstrings and lower back.

One-Legged Cable Kickback
Hook a leather cuff to a low cable pulley and then attach the cuff to your ankle. Facing the weight stack from a distance of about 2 feet, grasp its steel frame for support. Keeping your knees and hips bent slightly and your abs tight, contract your glutes to slowly kick the working leg back in a semicircular arc as high as it will comfortably go. At full extension, squeeze your glutes harder still for a peak contraction. Bring your working leg forward, resisting the pull of the cable throughout the negative. After completing the desired number of reps, complete an identical number using the opposite leg.
Training Tip: Always keep your shoulders and hips squared with the cable stack. If your hips start to turn, you aren't working your glutes as much anymore.

One-Legged Cable Lateral Raise
Hook a leather cuff to a low cable pulley and then attach the cuff to your ankle. Stand perpendicular to the cable stack so that your working leg is farthest from it, and grasp the steel frame with the hand closest to it for support. Allow the cable to pull your ankle in front of your other leg as far toward the stack as possible, then contract your glutes and hip muscles to lift your leg out to the side, as high as is comfortable. Squeeze out a peak contraction and then let the cable slowly pull your leg back down, maintaining continuous tension. After completing the desired number of reps, complete an identical number using the opposite leg.
Training Tip: Focus on contracting the entire glute region, not just the working side.