PSA: At-Home Butt Fitness Equipment Exists and It’s Actually Legit

The P.Volve workout was MADE for butts. And this is just one of their signature tools to achieve le booty goals. This one takes things to the next level by forcing your brain to focus on your inner thighs and glutes to hold the ball in place as you perform their patented moves. Reminds me of my cheerleading days in high school.

Matheny has this bench on his list of must-haves to build that booty. It's perfect for doing a ton of butt-plumping exercises like step-ups, elevated lunges, and hip thrusts. 

You know those super cool resistance cord workouts you see on Pinterest? Well, you can actually give them a try in your living room with the Coba Glute board. It comes with nine different resistance bands and a kickback strap perfect for making those donkey kicks a little bit more comfortable.

The great thing about this adjustable weight: It can easily go from two single dumbbells to a barbell, which offers plenty of versatility (and poundage!) for all your weighted butt options.

Holding a kettlebell (or two kettlebells) adds extra oomph to lunges, squats, deadlifts, hip thrusters, and more. Use them just as you would use dumbbells.

One of Matheny's favorites is the single-leg kettlebell deadlift.

Here's how it's done: Stand with your feet together and one kettlebell in your left hand. With a slight bend in your right knee, raise your left leg back behind you until it is slightly hovering off the ground. Straighten left your knee and flex that foot before hingeing at the hips to lower the weight toward the ground. Keep your spine tall and square hips and shoulders. That's one rep. Do as many as you can (while maintaining your form) before switching to the other side.

Yeah, this one is quite a splurge and takes up a significant amount of space, but, baby, it will work deep butt muscles you never knew you had.

Matheny recommends using this machine to add resistance to your sliding lunges. With your feet shoulder-width apart, place one foot on the front platform and the other foot on the reformer's moving board. Slowly slide the back leg back while bending both knees at a 90-degree angle. Simple, but a total game-changer for those buns.

If you love you some floor werk, this ball makes moves like donkey kicks extra challenging. That's because holding it between your calf and glutes as you raise your leg requires extra muscle. So you'll feel ze burn even faster than usual.

Yep, that is THE Halle Berry using this booty band, which is part of her line of fitness tools from her health and wellness brand, Re-Spin.

These mini bands are great for helping exercises like hip bridges, squats, and even lunges engage your butt. The resistance band forces your glutes to work extra hard to keep your knees apart. Wrap it just above your knees for major gains. (P.S. It's perfect for this kick-ass butt workout.)

Whether you flip this over to balance on the hard surface or use the squishy side, you'll engage all of those hip stabilizers in your core and glutes. Jump on and start squatting or prop up your back foot before cranking out stationary lunges.

For Occhipinti, a loop band is a must. It’s “great for adding a better resistance profile to certain exercises to bias the glutes,” he says. He suggests using them during dumbbell Romanian deadlifts. Here’s why: “When you get to the top of the motion, the glutes do not have to work as hard as they do in the bottom of the rep,” he says. Tension from the band “overloads the glutes at the top of the rep as well.”

This may not seem like an obvious choice, but Occhipinti says that a hip thrust barbell pad makes it much more comfortable to load weight in the hip thrust. More weight—added safely and in a progressive manner— allows for a greater stimulus and challenge to the muscle, so that it will grow and get stronger.

If you're going to use any kind of free weights, I would definitely recommend getting a pair of grips to protect your hands from calluses and more importantly your wrists from over-extending or getting strained.

A killer glute sesh deserves some time spent on the mat stretching it out to help ease sore muscles and put you on the path to recovery— and you’ll find plenty of relief with poses such as pigeon and half lord of the fishes here. Not to mention this non-slip exercise mat is just S-T-U-N-N-I-N-G.

Oh, and you're gonna need some squat-proof leggings to go with your booty-sculpting regimen. That's a fact.