To do any big lower-body exercise well, you need strong and healthy hips.
If you want mobile and strong hips, you need to actively practice drills that challenge your coordination, balance, and stability. Ideally, choose those that take your hips through active internal and external rotation.
This creates space for the head of the femur in the acetabulum of the hip and enhances your alignment so you can lift heavy weight safely.
Here are three active hip openers that utilize internal and external hip rotation as primary movements. Use these as part of a prehab or warm-up routine before your next lower-body training day to keep your back and knees safe and happy.
This is fantastic for opening up your hip flexors and adductors.
This move develops the whole-body coordination necessary to hit a full squat.
This one fires up the glutes, creates space in the hip, and trains the muscles of the feet to fire and stabilize your body.
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