A guide to hip flexor exercises, including what your hip flexors are, best hip flexor exercises to strengthen hip flexors, and which movements use hip flexors
Adductor longus Adductor magnus Why Should You Work Out Your Inner Thighs? It’s important for everyone to work out their inner thigh muscles. Exercises that strengthen your inner thighs also build muscle and help shape your legs. Your inner thigh muscles need to be strong to help you: Main...
Planks are one of the best bodyweightexercisesto strengthen and build your core, including your abs. These exercises also help to strengthen muscles in your back, particularly yourlower back. Planks involve keeping your body in a rigid position for a set duration of time to maintain lots of t...
Muscles worked: Hip rotators, hip lateral stabilizers, inner thighs, pelvic floor Why it rocks: This is a great move to activate the glutes. You could integrate this into your warmup to prime the glutes for strength work. How to: Stand up straight with a resistance band wrapped just below...
After a good stretch, let’s look at how to strengthen the thigh muscles. We need exercises that incorporate both flexion and extension of the knee and hip joints. Because each individual’s body is made different, hence, it is essential to address how to perform these exercises accurately ...
Push back to return to the upright, hip-width position. Repeat on the other side. Primary muscles involved: adductors, gluteus maximus, hamstrings, quadriceps Secondary muscles involved: lower back, calves, abdominals The Best Way to Train the Inner Thighs ...
Target: hamstrings, glutes, adductors You should feel a deep stretch in the back of your thighs from your butt to your knees Video Step 1: Set a barbell on a rack at about hip level (if you’re very mobile, you can start with the bar on the floor). Grasp the bar with a shoulder...
Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, toes pointed slightly out. Send hips back and down, bending knees to lower into a squat. Keep chest lifted. Drive feet into ground to stand back up. Repeat. 2. Sumo Squat Raj Hathiramani Why it works: This move will strengthen your hip adductors, ...
It’s all in the hips! Have your hips been feeling weak lately? Or maybe someone has told you to strengthen your hips, but you’re not sure how? Look no further – here are five hip exercises anyone can do, regardless of age or activity level. (more…) General Hip Pain Stretching ...
If the reason you’re not foam rolling this area is simply the awkward position required to get to it, Matt suggests using a lacrosse ball to really target the muscle. “Spending one to two minutes in this area can really release and open this area up in order to strengthen your back ...