How do you engage your core and glutes when running?

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Hi, do you have any practical tips on this? I know engaging your core when exercising is good, but how do you do it? Do you just such your tummy in?

What about your glutes? I have had quite a few hamstring pulls and I've read they can be due to weak glutes. How do I engage them when running?

Anybody?

if you’ve got weak glutes, you first need to work on strengthening them
A good Pilates class will help with that as well as your core but the ideal would be a sports physio who can give you some tailored exercises to work on.

Then before your run, you need to spend 5 mins doing glute activation work to warm them up so they are more ‘switched on’ when you work out.

Your core is something you will instinctively hold in as you get more familiar with your core muscles.

You can also work on it by making an effort to switch on your core during every chorus of song if you run to music, or count the lamp posts and hold in your core for the length of 3
As it gets more familiar, do it for longer, and it should eventually become the norm

I don't know, but I'd like to so bumping for you! I think you are supposed to warm up your glutes with a few squats and things so they know they are wanted, but I don't see how that works!

Oh, cross post! Sorry, and thank you for the advice!

Google some glute activation exercises to do before you start. Squat holds. Handed steps. Glute bridges. Clams.