17 Oct Long Sitting Hip Internal and External Rotation – AROM
HOW: Get set-up on the ground supporting yourself with your arms and with your knees bent. Let both knees fall to one side by moving through hip rotation range of motion. Go through the full range of motion that you feel comfortable with, then...
16 Oct Forward March
HOW: Lift your leg and opposite arm up in a "marching" position. Squeeze your glutes and quadriceps and stand tall on one leg with your core braced. You should feel very steady, like if someone came to knock you over they couldn't do so....
16 Oct Loaded March
HOW: Grab two dumbbells or other weights in each hand. Keeping your core braced, lift your leg and opposite arm up in a "marching" position. Squeeze your glutes and quadriceps and stand tall on one leg with your core braced. You should feel very...
06 Oct Prone Press Up
HOW: While laying on face down place both elbows on the floor at shoulder width. Driving into the floor with both of your forearms lift your chest up, creating an arch in the back. The closer your elbows are together, the higher you will...
06 Oct Hip Mobilization – Posterior
Start position: Begin on your hands an knees in a tabletop position. Simply being in this position adds a posterior glide of the head of the femur. The movement: place one foot over the other leg which will put your hip into slight external...
06 Oct Clam – Feet Elevated, Band
HOW: Begin on your side with your shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles stacked over each other. Place the resistance band just slightly above your knees. In this side lying position keep both feet slightly off of the floor then open your top knee up towards...
06 Oct Bretzel Stretch
HOW: Grab the top of your ankle on the side you plan to stretch with the other arm that is free with the palm facing the ceiling. Try to pull your knee back as tolerated to help increase the stretch of the hip flexors....
06 Oct Pigeon Stretch
HOW: Place one leg in front and across you. Your shin should be perpendicular to your body. Slowly sink down with your chest until you feel a pull in the back of the hip. You can rotate your body towards the leg in front...
06 Oct Supine Hip Internal Rotation Stretch
HOW: lay on your back facing up with one foot over the opposite leg. Use the elevated leg to help drop your knee in towards the floor. Reach with your arm towards the side that is getting stretched to maximize this stretch and avoid any...
06 Oct Lunge Hip Flexion Stretch
HOW: Begin in a runner's stance position. Lower your body as if you are reaching the elbow towards the heel of the leg in front. Really sink down as far as you can. With each exhale sink a bit deeper. FEEL: You should feel...
