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I’ve been incorporating a lot of these hip thrusts into my training lately and I really like them.
I’ve always felt that my gluteals don’t get trained well from squats or pulls but this is a great way to strengthen them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylwgaK_LEQ&NR=1

I like warming up with this exercise, I use it as a form of dynamic stretching before I squat, lunge or dead lift.  It activates my glutes, increase hip flexor mobility/flexibility, and increase blood flow.   
 
I sit at a desk all day and my hip flexors are really tight. I defiantly have an anterior pelvic tilt; my posture is horrible!!! 
 
 
Have you ever tried single leg hi[ pop ups with weights?
 
http://www.muscledog.com/fetch_this/exercise_view/157/SINGLE_LEG_HIPPOP_UP#

Yea for a long time I used bodyweight for the bridge to “activate” my glutes before all my workouts but I found that it just didn’t do much in terms of developing any kind of muscular strength or hypertrophy there.


It makes sense to add resistance if you think about it, doing bodyweight squats or deadlifts etc wouldn’t develope much strength at all even though you may activate the musculature.

I really like the idea of a simple exercise that can be overloaded with weight and hits primarily the glutes. I think some people just don’t use their glutes when doing a lot of traditional exercises (squats, deadlifts etc) for whatever reason (little activation, poor leverage for the hips etc)  and as such need to find a supplemental way to hit the hips.

I like the single leg version though I admit I don’t do it as much as the double leg version.

Madmax I like the way you think bro let tell you about a great piece of equipment sold out of westside barbell Louie Simmons own reverse hype great for glutes and back. check it out sometime they have great articles on simple unconventional lifts to supplement the big three.
Thanks Butch

Yea I like the reverse hyper a lot! Its a great glute exercise and it has some really theraputic fealing effects you don’t get elsewhere.

Yeah man, I love hip thrusters! Best exercise for isolating glute activiation, bar none. I didn’t do a whole lot of posterior chain stuff when I first started lifting and I’m pretty sure I had some huge disparities between my back and front sides, especially with my legs, but once I started working things like hip thrusters and deadlifts, etc into my routine I felt so much more balanced.

Yea I really like how getting my glutes stonger seems to tie together the rest of the body.

Will this exercise make me even more booty-liscious??? 
 
(Cause that’s all that REALLY matters, right?!)

  
haha.. it depends what you think is botty-liscious.. Some guys like big, thick and cottage cheese looking buns !!
 
I would stick with sqauts, lunges, step ups, and straight leg dead lifts

Big and thick: YES!
Cottage cheese: NO!!!
 
; )

 
haha.. interesting…