PETE HOLMAN (Inventor of the Glute Slide) is a Physical Therapist, Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and US National TaeKwon-Do champion and team captain. He has worked with professional athletes and strength coaches from the PGA, MLB, NFL, NBA, UFC, X-Games and professional race car team SunEnergy1.
Pete's dedication to advancing the fitness industry has inspired him to create multiple products that impact fitness enthusiasts and athletes worldwide, including:
- The Glute Slide
- The Nautilus Glute Drive
- The TRX Rip Trainer
- The GolfForever Swing Trainer
- The Escape Barrow
- The Functional Training Rack
An IDEA FIT 2022 “Fitness Leader of the Year” award recipient, Pete is the number one rated trainer on the GolfForever app, presents for IDEAFIT, writes for IDEA Fitness Journal, PTontheNet, STACK magazine and IronMan Magazine and has appeared on national TV shows like the Dr’s, the Steve Harvey show, the Golf Channel and QVC.
ORIGIN STORY
While walking by an exercise studio in Aspen Co, Pete noticed participants engaging in rear kickback and lateral kick out moves on large pilates machines. As a physical therapist and strength coach, Pete recognized these moves as glute training exercises, but there was a problem. The participants had nothing to hold onto for balance, nothing to push into with their working leg and had to constantly get on and off the large machine to change the resistance levels; an idea was born! Why not make a smaller machine which focuses on the glutes, provides upper body stability with handlebars, includes a foot wedge to push into for true strength gains and has a quick and easy resistance change mechanism that allows users the ability to change load without having to get off the machine. The next 5 years was a labor of love! After working up multiple prototypes, getting shut down during COVID and running out of money, Pete met Greg and Zach Olson from Heavy Metal Barbell. The “A-Team” went back to the lab, throttled down and created the most innovative and revolutionary consumer and small gym glute training machine the world has ever seen: the GLUTE SLIDE.
