Hips Hooray in Class 🙌

How is your hip health?

Do your hips move well? Are they a bit stiff?

I promised everyone who sweated in my group fitness classes that I would help make 2022 a healthy hips year. So, hip mobility exercises, the ones that they may not normally perform in every warm-up, were included.

You know what?

You have to include a good warm-up and not just one that gets a person moving prior to a class.  It's easy yet not as effective to come in and simple start working. A more pliable and younger individual can do a few jumps and squats and go hard throughout class without a problem. But, many other participants need to control their hips joints and movements with more focus. 

Work the joints. Why? Most group fitness participants often sit down throughout the day and workout on their own; however, they may miss out on proper mobility training. Therefore, in boot camp type of classes, running 🏃🏿‍♂️, and other joint impactful classes that increase vibration from foot to hip, hip mobility exercises wake up the hip girdle.

If your instructor does not warm-up prior to a class, then do your own warm-up before the class begins. Make sure it includes mobility because no one or few group fitness instructors will care about mobility.

You deserve to have good hips throughout the year and in every class or session you take in a gym, outdoors, in-home, or virtual. Your hips hold the structure of your powerhouse muscle movements. Love them!

Derek | @teemptraining | derekteempt@gmail.com