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Writer's pictureNesve Yayalar

Best exercise to strengthen the hip muscles: Bridge with band Place an elastic band between knees. Bend knees, keep feet flat on the floor. Relax your arms. Lift your buttocks off the floor using your buttocks and abdominal muscles, but not your back and arms. Hold at the top and push the kees out as you keep your back stable. The key is to lift and hold enough to feel your glutes. Repeat until you fatigue your buttocks muscles.

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Writer's pictureNesve Yayalar

For Hip mobility, Core stability...

Start position: Lie on your back, open your arms out, palms up, relax your shoulder and neck. Bend knees and keep feet flat. Engage your abdominal muscles. Perform: Lift and rotate your leg from the hip as big as you can and stomp your foot (make sure to land with whole foot like shown). Engage your abdominal muscles during the entire exercise to keep your ribcage and spine stable. Make sure to exhale as you rotate your leg. Keep alternating your legs up to 1 min.

Writer's pictureNesve Yayalar

Scapular retraction/protraction- Shoulder blade mobility. Too much sitting in front of computer causes head forward and down position, rounded back, decreased mobility in shoulder blades, neck and shoulder pain. If Scapula or shoulder blades don't move properly, muscles around them become weak and imbalanced. As a result, shoulders don't move properly either. Especially, lifting overhead (during exercise and daily activities) and rowing, pulling type of movements can become injurious. Eventually, it causes chronic shoulder and neck pain. This is one of the best exercises which can help to improve mobility of scapula. Come on down all fours. Keep low back and neck neutral, engage your abdominal muscles. Slowly bring your shoulder blades together toward spine, and down toward hips (avoid elevating your shoulders, arching and moving the low back, moving hips). Slowly, separate your blades away from each other and spine (like they are sliding toward the armpits). Only your shoulder blades do the movement. Be patient! You might get no movement at the beginning or compensate with low back or hips. Learning a new movement takes lots of practice. If you're unsure that you are doing right, always ask professional help.

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