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Lie face up on a mat, knees bent, feet flat on floor, holding one or both dumbbells across your hips. Press through heels to lift hips towards the ceiling, then slowly lower. That’s one rep. Do 15 and repeat for three sets.

Your stride starts in your pelvis and glutes, and ‘hip bridges ignite your posterior chain from your hamstrings to your glutes’, says Tooley.