5 Quick Exercises to Solve Hip Pain During Squats

5 Quick Exercises to Solve Hip Pain During Squats
Hey, check out this photo… This was taken last week when I filmed a number of YouTube videos with Alix on hip pain, shoulder pain, back pain and neck pain. So, watch out for these videos coming soon and make sure to check out my YouTube channel for pain relieving tips and tricks. Today, I will share a number exercises that will help you squat without hip pain. Enjoy! ====================================================== Today, I wanted to show you few quick exercises to solve hip pain during squats. Quick Exercises to Solve Hip Pain During Squats CLICK HERE to watch the video. I had Alix demonstrate the exercises. #1 – Standing Hip Flexor Stretch Begin in an upright standing position with your hands on your hips to help with balance. Take a step forward or back with one leg. Tighten your abdominal area. Bend the knee of your front leg, keep your front foot flat and slightly push your hips forward. Stand on the ball of your foot with your back leg, with your knee slightly bent. Look for a stretch in the hip and quad areas. Loosening up those two areas will help in solving hip pain from squatting. Perform 1 set of 2 repetitions with a 20 second hold. The intensity is light for this static stretch. #2 – Hip Hinging from Knees Start in a kneeling position with your hands on your hips and your legs hip width apart. Tighten your abdominal area, bend through the hips and raise back up. Bring your upper body forward and then return to the starting position. Perform 1 set of 5 repetitions. This should be done in smooth controlled movement with a good stop at the end position for 1 second. The intensity is light. The purpose of this exercise is to train the body on proper hip hinging; we want the hips to move back and the upper body to go properly forward. Proper hip hinging patterns help relieve hip pain from squatting. #3 – Hip Bridging Lie on the ground with your hands to the side. Relax your upper body. Bend your knees, tighten up your abdominal area, and keep your feet flat on the ground. Push through the heels and lift your hips up. Stop at the top position, where your hips, knees, and shoulders are in a straight line. Hold that position for a couple of seconds. Bring your hips back down, relax, and then repeat the movement. Perform 1 set of 5 repetitions in a smooth controlled movement, with a good stop at the top position. The intensity can be light to moderate depending on your fitness level. The purpose of this exercise is to activate the glutes and hamstrings, to help decrease the stress on the front of the hip. It also provides a bit of a stretch in the front of the hip by bringing the hips up as it contracts the glutes and stretches the quad and hip areas. #4 – Standing Back Arches Begin in an upright standing position, with your legs underneath your hips and your hands on your hips. Push your hips forward with your hands and slowly arch through your low back and mid back. Perform 1 set of 5 repetitions in a smooth controlled movement, with a good stop at the end position. The intensity is light. The purpose of this exercise is to work on the mobility or movement in the low back area. Often, when we sit too much, we lose proper movement in the lower lumbar spine that affects our squatting movement and puts more stress on the hips. If we have poor movement in the back, another joint has to pick up the stress and a lot of times that’s the hips or the knees. This is the importance of improving the mobility in the spine in order to decrease hip pain during squats. #5 – Loaded Deep Squat For this exercise, you can use a dumbbell, a kettlebell, or a plate. Begin in a standing position with a good wide stance. Grab the weight and hold it close to your body. Squat down as deep as you can. Place your elbows to the inside of your knees when holding the weight, and keep the weight down so it loads up into your hips. Perform 1 set of 2 repetitions with a 20 second hold. The intensity is light. The purpose of this exercise is to statically stretch the muscles around the hips. When we sit or have had a previous injury, we lose proper movement in the hip, especially during deep squatting movements. With the Loaded Deep Squat exercise, we are getting into the squatting position and adding load into it to stretch out the muscles around the hips and the tissues around the hips. Give these five exercises a go. They are quick easy exercises to help solve hip pain that you get from squatting. If you want to decrease or even eliminate hip and lower back pain permanently, then click here to check out the Gluteus Medius Exercises program. Take care! Rick Kaselj, MS Original article and pictures take http://exercisesforinjuries.com/5-quick-exercises-to-solve-hip-pain-during-squats/ site