The Most Underrated Hip Mobility Exercise (Not Stretching)

If you’re frustrated not seeing your mobility and flexibility improve, it’s time to not just focus on your prehab and warm up but also how you’re truly using the moves in your workouts.

Because so often we do all of this work to try to have our joints be able to move in every direction as our muscles can stretch further…

Only to then go strengthen through a limited range of motion in our workouts.

We do half squats.

We don’t lunge all the way down.

And all this does is cause us to tighten back up because we are only strengthening muscles and building stability through a very limited range of motion.

We are training muscles to be shortened. Not to mention a huge part of what allows for greater joint mobility is a joint feeling STABLE through the range of motion.

And stability is muscles being able to power and control the full range of motion.

So if we are lifting in a way that isn’t working a joint through the range of motion we’re building, like our hips, we’re just going to end up frustrated feeling like we’re wasting time on prehab to just have our hips be constantly tight. Frustrated with prehab

And increasing the range of motion you do your lifts through isn’t just going to pay off for mobility purposes….

There is amazing research showing that by putting a muscle under greater stretch with loads, we may see better muscle and strength gains faster.

That’s why one of the most important components of mobility you need to stop ignoring is your range of motion in your lifting sessions!

And this is why I want to share one of my favorite lunge variations for functional strong hips.