Hip thrusts can be as effective as squats and step-ups for glute growth without significantly increasing leg size.

“step-ups were actually as good as uh glute activation as some of your you know hip thrusts and you know squats — particularly some of the horizontal style step-ups or lunges where you're coming across the body so like a crossbench step up where you're taking the foot down one side and then coming back up — where there's a lot of stretch — and lengthening taking place in the in the glute”

“but step ups were actually as good as glute activation as some of your you know I believe it hip thrusts and you know squats — particularly some of the horizontal style step UPS or lunges where you're coming across the body so like a cross bench step up where you're taking the foot down one side and then coming back up where there's a lot of stretch and lengthening taking place in the glute”