Hip-Strengthening Exercises at Home
When an individual has tight hips, it typically means they have been sitting heaps, like at a table job, acting on a laptop all day, says Chelsey Wilkens, NASM-CPT, a trainer at Soho Strength research lab in any town.
“By doing active stretches before or once sitting for extended periods of your time, you will facilitate relax the realm, feel less tight, and permit yourself to sit down well for extended,” says Wilkens.
Hip strength and quality may also facilitate improved movement patterns and posture. “If one joint is not operating because it should—say, the hips are tight and immobile—this will cause stress for the joint on top of or below it," says Wilkens.
Once the hip tightens, it will stress the low back or the ginglymus, which might then alter posture and gait (aka, however you walk) and additionally result in injuries.
Your 6-Move Hip Mobility Warm-Up
1. World’s Greatest Stretch
2. Banded Ankle Kick-Slides
3. Banded Glute Bridge
4. Dynamic Banded Glute Bridge
5. Quadruped Pigeon
6. Half-Frog Straddle Stretch