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Why Your Glutes Won't Grow (No Matter How Many RDLs You Do)

The hidden reason your hardest leg exercises aren't building muscle—and the 30-second fix that changes everything

Published: Friday, July 19, 2025 By Sarah Mitchell

You're doing RDLs every leg day.

 

You've watched the form videos. You've focused on the hip hinge. You've slowed down your tempo. You're eating enough protein.

 

But your glutes look exactly the same as they did three months ago.

 

Here's the part nobody tells you:

 

It's not your form. It's not your programming. It's not your genetics.

 

Your glutes aren't growing because they're not actually getting trained.

 

Your hands are failing before your glutes even start working.

 


You've Felt This Before

 

Third set of RDLs.

 

Your setup is perfect. You hinge at the hips. You feel the stretch in your hamstrings.

 

Then you pull.

 

And everything falls apart.

 

Your forearms start burning. Your grip starts slipping. You're squeezing the bar so hard your knuckles turn white.

 

But your glutes? You can barely feel them.

 

You finish rep 8, maybe 9. Not because your legs gave out. Because your hands did.

 

You rack the weight. You tell yourself you'll go heavier next week.

 

But next week, the same thing happens.

 

And the week after that. And the week after that.

 

Your glutes never get pushed to failure. They never get the stimulus they need to grow.

 

Because your hands quit first. Every. Single. Time.

Why This Happens (Even When You Do Everything Right)

 

Here's what's actually going on:


Your glutes can handle serious weight.

 

They're one of the largest, strongest muscle groups in your body. To make them grow, they need to lift 80, 100, 120+ pounds with progressive overload.

 

Your hands can't hold that much weight.

 

Your grip strength maxes out around 60-70 pounds before it starts to fail. Maybe a bit more if you've been training for years.

 

DO THE MATH. 

The weight your glutes need to grow is way heavier than what your hands can hold.

 

So every RDL goes like this:

  • Reps 1-3: You can sort of feel your glutes and hamstrings
  • Reps 4-6: Your forearms start burning, grip starts slipping
  • Reps 7-8: You're just trying not to drop the bar
  • Reps 9-10: You quit—not because your legs are done, but because your hands are

Your brain knows your grip is failing. So it doesn't let your glutes work as hard. It's protecting you from dropping the weight.

 

You lose mind-muscle connection. Your form gets sloppy. You start using momentum just to finish the set.

 

And your glutes? They barely got warmed up.

 

What This Actually Costs You

 

Let's be honest about what's happening here.

 

You're showing up to the gym consistently. You're doing the exercises that are supposed to build a great butt. You're putting in the work.

 

But your glutes aren't growing because they're not failing.

 

They're not getting pushed to their limit. They're not getting enough volume. They're not getting the progressive overload they need to build muscle.

 

Not because you're weak. Not because RDLs "don't work for your body."

 

BECAUSE YOUR HANDS GIVE UP BEFORE YOUR GLUTES GET A REAL WORKOUT.

 

Every set where that happens, you're leaving gains on the table.

You could do RDLs five times a week. It won't matter if your grip fails on rep 6 and your glutes only worked for five reps.

 

Five reps isn't enough volume to build muscle. Not even close.

 

Why The "Obvious" Solutions Don't Work

 

"Just strengthen your grip."

 

You could do farmer carries every day. Your grip will get stronger.

 

But it will NEVER be as strong as your glutes. That's just anatomy.

 

Your hands are small muscles and tendons. Your glutes are the biggest muscle in your body.

 

The gap between what your grip can handle and what your glutes need will always exist.

 

"Use a lifting belt."

 

Some of us thought this would help. (Yeah, we've been there.)

A belt supports your lower back and core. It does absolutely nothing for your hands.

 

You'll still have the same grip failure. Just with better core stability while it happens.

 

"Go lighter and focus on the squeeze."

 

Going lighter feels better on your hands. But light weight doesn't build muscle.

 

Your glutes need progressive overload—heavier weight over time—or they won't grow. Period.

 

Going light just lets you keep doing the same ineffective workouts that feel better but don't deliver results.

 

What Actually Fixes This

 

The women at your gym with great glutes aren't gripping harder than you.

 

They're not genetically gifted with superhuman hand strength.

 

They just stopped letting their hands determine when their glutes are done working.

 

They're using grip support.

 

Not straps. Straps are bulky, take forever to set up, pull on your wrists, and honestly—they do too much of the work for you. You completely lose connection to the bar.

 

Not gloves. Gloves make the bar thicker (which makes grip worse), and they don't solve the slipping problem.

Silicone lifting grips.

 

These are thin, flexible grips that slide onto your fingers in literally two seconds.

 

They add a layer of high-traction silicone between your hand and the bar.

 

That's it. That's the whole mechanism.

 

But here's what changes:

 

✓ Your hands stop slipping. The silicone grips the bar so you don't have to death-grip it.

 

✓ Your forearms stop burning out early. Less squeezing = less forearm fatigue = you can finish your sets strong.

 

✓ You can finally feel your glutes working. When you're not distracted by your hands slipping, you can focus on the stretch, the squeeze, the muscle activation.

 

✓ You lift heavier. When grip isn't the weak link, you can use weights that actually challenge your legs.

And when you can lift heavier, keep tension through the full range of motion, and finish your sets without your hands quitting?

 

THAT'S WHEN YOUR GLUTES ACTUALLY GROW.


Why This Works When Everything Else Failed

 

This isn't about making your grip stronger.

 

Your grip doesn't need to be stronger than your glutes. That's impossible.

 

This is about removing the barrier between you and the exercises that build glutes.

 

RDLs work. They've always worked. Your hands just wouldn't let you do them properly.

 

Your hands just wouldn't let you do them properly.

 

Same with deadlifts. Same with Bulgarian split squats. Same with any exercise where grip failure happens before muscle failure.

 

The exercises aren't broken. Your programming isn't wrong.

 

YOUR HANDS HAVE BEEN THE BOTTLENECK THIS ENTIRE TIME.

What Women Are Saying

Thousands of lifters have already fixed their grip problem. Here's what changed for them:

 

The Truth You Need To Hear

 

Your glutes haven't been the problem.

 

You're not lazy. You're not doing the wrong exercises. You don't have bad genetics.

 

Your hands have been failing before your glutes even get a chance to work.

 

And every workout where that happens—every set you cut short because your grip gave out—you're training for nothing.

 

But here's the good news:

 

This is the easiest problem you'll ever fix.

 

No complicated program changes. No new exercises to learn. No expensive equipment.

 

Just stop letting your hands decide when your glutes are done.



What Your Next Leg Day Could Look Like

Imagine this:

 

You load the bar for RDLs. You slide the grips on—takes two seconds.

 

You set up. Perfect hip hinge. You grab the bar.

 

And you pull.

 

And for the first time in forever, you actually feel it.

 

Not in your forearms. Not in your hands desperately clinging to the bar.

 

In your glutes. In your hamstrings. Exactly where you're supposed to feel it.

 

You hit rep 8. Your hands aren't even a thought. Your grip feels locked in.

 

Rep 9. The burn is building in your glutes. Good burn. The kind that means growth.

 

Rep 10. You could keep going. Your legs haven't failed yet.

 

They're finally the ones deciding when the set ends.

 

You finish strong. You rack the weight.

 

And you think: "Holy sh*t. THAT'S what an RDL is supposed to feel like."

 

That's what you've been missing.

 

Not a new exercise. Not a magic program. Just the ability to actually train your glutes without your hands sabotaging every set.

 

See The Difference For Yourself

 

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They're what thousands of women are using to finally break through the plateau their hands created.

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That's when you'll realize your hands have been holding you back this whole time.

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