Use these form cues to make sure you’re targeting your glutes! Try to go slow and focus on mind muscle connection—aka make sure you feel each movement in your glutes! ⁃ Alternating Smith Machine Lunge: Wide split stance. Drive through your front heel, keeping your knee over your ankle. Feel that glute engagement with each step. ⁃ Dumbbell Squat: Wide stance, toes pointed out. Sit your hips back and down. Drive through your heels on the way up, focusing on that glute squeeze at the top. ...