8 Movements to Improve Your Hip Flexibility

Here’s an older video tutorial I made to help people improve hip flexibility when working through the certain positions in yoga that require better than average hip mobility.

This quick routine will help people new to yoga, or those returning to yoga after a long break, loosen up their hips for easier movement.

Here are the stretches/poses covered in this short tutorial:

Outward rotation of the hip
Inward rotation of the hip
Butterfly stretch
Frog position stretch
Kneeling lunge
Long sitting outward hip rotation movement (long name, but a great stretch!)
Squatting hip inward rotation
Pigeon posture stretch

Give it a try, and do 10 reps or so for each movement. Working through this sequence daily is optimal, but doing these movements even three times a week would be helpful.

Jarlo Ilano

GMB Content Manager - Jarlo is our resident Physical Therapist, Board Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, and martial arts instructor. He writes articles and manuals and keeps us clear of any BS.

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Larissa

Hello Amber,

I tried some of these poses because I missed 2 months of Yoga lessons and these poses are quite difficult for me to do, any suggestions?

AndyFossett

Larissa, the idea isn’t so much to mimic Jarlo’s range of motion. Just get as close as you can.

Follow these steps in order and really work on just going slightly deeper each time.

BrianBlazovic

awesome find! definitely incorporating a few of these

QuentinHardage

I am continuing with the F1daily training charts phase 1A. I decided to add Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series to the end. Ordered the recommended rings for working in the air. It seems as yoga daily practicioner, I started with floor, then parallettes, and later rings. I am volunteer yoga teacher at community center and believe the F1 training will help improve on advanced poses in yoga. Can’t wait to add the rings in daily practice, too.

AndyFossett

@QuentinHardage Daily yoga is definitely something we can get behind.

There’s really no “incorrect” order to begin practicing with the GMB curriculum, especially since your your yoga practice will igve you a strong base of mobility. Keep us updated on how F1 adds to your practice. When you start training with rings too, you’re going to have a lot of fun with all that extra strength.

Kat

Thank you Jarlo, you’re such a beautiful mover!

Jarlo

Thanks, Kat! You’re too kind.