Your hips aren’t tight. 3 dormant muscle groups are dumping their entire workload into your hip joint.
Stretching your hips when your hips aren’t actually the problem is like putting a bandage on the wrong wound.
Here is what is really going on. Your gluteus maximus and gluteus medius are dormant from sitting all day. Your ankles, specifically the soleus and gastrocnemius, are locked stiff from shoes and flat surfaces. And your deep core stabilizers have checked out because nothing in your daily routine challenges them. When those three systems go offline, your hip joint picks up the slack. It tightens up to create the stability that your glutes, ankles, and core should be providing. That tightness you feel is not a flexibility problem. It is a compensation problem. And no amount of hip stretching will solve it until you address the root cause.
This reel gives you three drills that wake up the real culprits: glute bridges for posterior chain activation, wall ankle drives for dorsifle...
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