Legs · Leverage Machine
Lever Glute Press
How to do the lever glute press, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Leverage Machine
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- Weighted reps
- Movement
- Hinge
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Set up on a glute press machine with your foot on the platform and your torso supported on the pads. Drive the platform back and up by extending your hip, squeezing your glute at the top, then return under control. Finish your reps and switch legs.
- 1Feel your glute drive the platform back as your hip extends
- 2Squeeze the glute hard at full extension
- 3Keep your core braced and back flat against the pad
Common mistakes
- Don't arch your lower back to push further
- Avoid letting the weight yank your hip back at the start
- Don't rush; control the platform on the way back in
Muscles worked
The lever glute press mainly works the glutes and hamstrings, with the lower back assisting.
- GlutesPrimary
- HamstringsPrimary
- Lower BackSupport
- Upper AbsMinor
- Lower AbsMinor
- QuadsMinor
- CalvesMinor
- AdductorsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.