Glutes · Body weight · Beginner

How to do Flutter Kicks

Flutter kicks are a bodyweight exercise performed lying on your back, where you lift your legs off the ground and alternate kicking them up and down in a fluttering motion. This movement primarily targets the glutes, with secondary emphasis on the hip flexors and lower abs.

Flutter Kicks demonstration
Primary muscle
Glutes
Also works
Hip flexors and Lower abs
Equipment
Body weight
Level
Beginner
Category
Legs

How to do Flutter Kicks, step by step

  1. Lie flat on your back with your legs extended and your hands by your sides.
  2. Engage your core and lift your legs off the ground about 6 inches.
  3. Keeping your legs straight, alternate lifting one leg slightly higher than the other.
  4. Continue this fluttering motion for the desired number of repetitions.

Muscles worked

Flutter Kicks works your glutes as the main mover, with help from your hip flexors and lower abs.

Track Flutter Kicks in SPLYT

Flutter Kicks is already in SPLYT’s exercise library. Log your sets, reps and weight on iPhone or Apple Watch, with last time’s weights already filled in.

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