Here are some basic exercises to help keep your hips strong and mobile. Remember to check with your practitioner,physical therapist, or healthcare provider to ensure that you are healthy enough to exercise your hip orleg. These exercises should be performed once per day to maintain strength and...
This exercise is called liquid hips because that is essentially what it creates. Your hip is known as a synovial joint. That means that a lubricating fluid (called synovial fluid) is produced within a membrane that lines the joint space. This fluid helps to keep your cartilage healthy as wel...
Tilt your torso forward, and push back your hips while slightly bending your right knee but keeping your left leg completely straight and exerting your weight on the edge of its heel. You should feel a pull in the hamstring of the left leg. Hold this stretch for 30 seconds. Switch legs ...
Keeping your feet in the same place, rotate your hips to your right, letting your knees drop to the right gently, touching the ground. Rotate your hips to the left side, letting your knees drop to the left, tapping the ground lightly. Continue to alternate directions for one minute. Show...
Lunges can help prepare your body for thenatural birthyou’ve always dreamed of. Doing lunges daily will help warm up your hips and open your pelvis, allowing more room for your baby to rotate and descend. To do a lunge, stand with your feet together. Take a giant step forward and drop...
Your hips and inner thighs are used most frequently while having sex. Thus, an exercise to stretch and loosen up your hip and inner thigh muscles is very important. Add reclined butterfly exercise to your workout and you are going to be relaxed and ready for some hot action in the bedro...
slightly off the floor, bending the knees only slightly. Kick your legs up and down a total of 20 times. Bring your legs to the floor and rest for two minutes. Repeat twice. This exercise hits the tensor fasciae latae in addition to a number of other muscles located in the hips and ...
No other exercise targets your butt, hips and thighs as well as squats. They are also very easy to do. Just stand with your feet apart, then squat down until your thigh approach horizontal, and lift up again. If your legs are weak, use a chair for support. ...
Arms rest by your hips. Inhale your arms up in front of you (pacing the movement to your in-breath if you’d like) to an overhead position, twist your torso gently toward the opposite of your foot, and exhale arms down with your back hand behind you and your front elbow on the ins...
deny that keeping a trim waist is next to impossible after a certain age. The hormonal changes inyour body during menopausedo more than just causehot flashes, headaches, irritability and low libido- the fluctuations can actually move stored fat to your stomach instead of your thighs and hips....