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The mobility of your hips is the most crucial factor when it comes to lower body performance<\/a> in the gym. If you’re an athlete, it is also crucial to your on the field performance. If you don’t have good joint mobility, you are not going to be able to exercise to your full range of motion in the two biggest strength moves that exist – the deadlift and the squat. In this article, we are going to highlight the best hip mobility exercises.<\/p>\n

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How Your Hip Works<\/h2>\n

The main function of your hips is balanced standing and locomotion. Compared to your shoulder joints, your hips sacrifice mobility for stability. These joints are extremely strong and to a degree, this is their nemesis. They are bound on all sides by powerful muscles to keep your torso poised upright on the femoral heads. The muscles of your inner thigh, outer thigh, and the glutes fire off intermittently bursts of contraction, both to keep your pelvis balanced laterally and to prevent folding up at your hips.<\/p>\n

The gluteal muscles<\/a> perform the most important role of propelling your body forward while walking or running. At the same time, all the powerful muscles that work your hips generate upward forces to keep the femoral head securely seated in the socket.<\/p>\n

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When it comes to the health of your hips, stretching alone is not going to cut it. You also need to perform hip mobility exercises along with your flexibility moves. The key muscle to target for hip mobility is the psoas.<\/p>\n

The psoas is a large muscle which runs from the lateral aspect of the vertebral body in the lower thoracic spine down to the femur. It is the muscle that is primarily responsible for hip flexion. The psoas also attaches to all of the lumbar vertebrae and into the thoracic spine. This is why tightness of the psoas leads to lower back pain. This is often felt by people when that is training their abs.<\/p>\n

When you focus on stretching out the psoas, you will greatly increase hip flexibility. Here is a great drill that you can do it increase your psoas mobility, and therefore increase your hip flexibility.<\/p>\n

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Great Mobility Exercises<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Psoas Lunge<\/strong><\/h4>\n