5 Best Hip Mobility Exercises

Hip mobility is crucial for avoiding a painful low back and for flexibility altogether so try these 5 exercises out and work your way up to the advanced version to say goodbye to your lack of mobility.

1. Kneeling Lunge- Front and back knee shoulder width apart, roll your pelvis forward, squeeze your back glute and rock deeper and deeper into the stretch. Once opened up, try lifting your leg up behind you for a good quad stretch.

2. Internal/External Rotations- Put your feet out infront of you with your knees bent at 90 degrees. Rotate both knees down to the same size while keeping your entire foot on the ground the whole time. Do this 10 times and then try popping your butt off the ground by thrusting through your hips.

3. Frog- Start on your hands and knees then spread your knees as wide as is currently comfortable. Put your feet directly behind your knees and keep your entire foot on the ground the whole time. Rock back and forth 10 times going deeper and deeper into the stretch and hold as deep as you can for 10 seconds.

4. Prayer Squat- Squat down with your feet a little wider than shoulder width and place your elbows inside of your knees with your hands together. Gently press your knees outward with your elbows and if this is too tough, let your knees return back to normal positioning and push them out gently over and over 10 times until you can hold with your knees pushed out. To take this to the next level, incorporate internal rotat