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Progressive glute-growth plan (6 weeks)
Intermediate · 25–39 · 6-week plan
A 6-week build mixing hip thrusts, hinges and abduction with planned load progression. Below is a research-backed prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, copy it, paste the reply into sweatcue, and run the whole strength workout hands-free.
Session at a glance
This is how sweatcue structures the session once you paste it in, timed blocks with auto-starting rest and spoken cues. Figures are read from the prompt itself.
The prompt
Copy the complete prompt (it wraps the request below so the AI returns a clean, runnable session).
Why it's built this way
Building the glutes comes down to training them hard across a few sessions a week, with enough weekly hard sets (roughly 10+ per muscle) and gradually increasing load or reps while keeping sets near failure. Spreading work over 2-3 sessions a week and combining thrusts, hinges and abduction covers the glutes through different ranges. Progress is real but gradual, expect steady strength gains over six weeks, with visible size change taking longer and depending on overall nutrition.
Sources: Schoenfeld et al., J Sports Sci 2017 (weekly volume); Schoenfeld et al., Sports Med 2016 (training frequency); Refalo et al., Sports Med 2023 (proximity to failure / reps-in-reserve)
Who this plan is for
Built with one person in mind: Train regularly, targeted work to grow and shape the glutes.
- You’re an intermediate-level trainer and you want to build visible muscle.
- You have access to the kit it calls for: minimal.
- You want a structured, progressing plan rather than a one-off session.
Who should adapt or skip it
- It pushes close to heavy or near-failure effort. If you’re brand new to lifting, build technique on lighter sessions first, and skip the near-maximal loading if you have unmanaged blood pressure or a recent injury.
- As with any new routine, check with a clinician first if you have a medical condition, are injured, pregnant, or returning from a long lay-off. This is general information, not medical advice.
What a 2-week plan looks like
This is a multi-week plan that progresses as you go, the AI builds the later weeks harder. Here’s the rhythm of the opening fortnight, at about 3 sessions a week:
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | ● | · | ● | · | ● | · | · |
| Week 2 | ● | · | ● | · | ● | · | · |
● This session· Rest, a walk, or light mobility
Keep session days apart where you can, and adjust for how you feel. When you paste the AI’s reply into sweatcue, each session runs hands-free with spoken cues and timers.
Run it hands-free in sweatcue
sweatcue is an AI workout dashboard: paste the AI's reply and it runs the whole session on screen and out loud, auto timers, spoken cues for every set, rest and rep, and your live numbers. The AI writes it; sweatcue runs it.
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