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👋 Another position I like playing around with for hip mobility drills is the low lunge.
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🏃🏽 While the 90/90 from last week is great for working on hip rotation, spending time in the low lunge is going to help flexion and extension on opposite legs. This video focuses on extension specifically.
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🍑 Hip extension mobility is super important for running, jumping, squatting, deadlifting... anything where you have to get your leg behind your body or want strong force production through the glutes.
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🪑 Lots of sitting is one thing that can steal hip extension away from us over time, and limited motion here usually results in the low back having to extend in its place. This is one of the common reasons we might get low back pain.
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🙋🏻♂️Try this drill as a warmup for a run, a sport, or a lower body workout. Alternatively, pepper it in throughout the day as a way to offset some of that sitting, or if your back just needs a bit relief. Find what works for you and stick with it!
05/12/2020
Definitely one of the weirder photo shoots I’ve done... but it was done in the name of education.
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🪑 It’s super easy to overdose on one position these days. Sitting for extended periods with the hips and knees at 90 degrees is just not going to feel good after a few hours, no matter how you slice it. Is it because chairs are evil? Should we all spend 700 bucks on standing desks? Not necessarily. There’s no one magic position or solution. The only real solution is variability. Our bodies crave movement, change, dynamic positions.
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🧘♀️ That’s where the floor comes in. The floor offers countless different positions. There are literally no wrong answers. Keep moving around and it’s a lot harder to over-stress tissues. Goodbye neck/back/shoulder pain.
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😊 A lot of you might find this silly. But this is one of the simplest ways of promoting joint health, flexibility and reducing postural pain. And it requires no extra time out of your busy schedule. At first, it might not be comfortable. Things we’re not used to rarely are. Thousands of hours of chair sitting have made our bodies reluctant to other positions. But stick with it and you’ll be surprised at how quickly things start to improve. Over time, try spending more time on the floor while you read, watch TV or even work.
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This turns sitting time that would otherwise be contributing to making your body stiffer, into time that actually makes you more flexible. Huge bang for your buck. Don’t take my word for it... try it out and see how quickly things start to feel better.
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04/17/2020
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