When’s the last time you performed a hip muscle stretch? Hip muscles are the most important muscles of your body. They help you to walk, run and perform major activities of life. For a healthy lifestyle, you have to keep your hip muscles strong. Proper care of your hips will allow your brain to receive proper stimulation, and as a result, you will perform your workout and day to day activities more fluently.

Today we are going to teach you how you can effectively stretch your hip muscles for more efficiency, and better productivity.

Hip lunge stretch

It is the most common hip stretch that most of the people practice. The hip lunge allows the flexors of the hip to stretch and it is an easy exercise to perform. With a few simple steps, you can enhance the efficiency of the hip lunges that will give you better results, with little work.

In order to perform a hip muscle stretch, you have to follow the given steps:

• Place your lead foot in front of you
• Lean forward
• Feel the stretch in your hips

In this simple way, you will get the stretch of your rectus femoris muscles. Now the biggest mistake we make here is that we consider it a perfect stretch. You have to keep in mind that this type of simple stretch will give your muscle the same benefit you will get from walking. It means that the simple lunges will not make any difference and neither will they improve your condition.

Improve the effectiveness of hip lunges

So it is the time that we learn to make it more effective like the professionals. Here are a few steps that you need to follow.

• You should start by maintaining your position and ensure that your hip is in the position of posterior tilt. To make it possible you can imagine you are tucking your tailbone underneath you
• With a slight hip extension transfer all your weight forward
• In this way, you will be able to maintain the neutral position of the spine
• You will feel a deep stretch on the flexor of the muscles
• The Illiacus and Psoas major will be stretched

You have to make sure that the movement is coming from the hip and there should be no compensation. Keep in mind that these stretches will only benefit your body so you have to follow the instructions properly. Failing to perform any step properly might cause some issues.

Bottom line

Exercise is the best way to keep your muscles healthy. We are living in the age where most of our time is spent in a chair or in front of the computer. Performing such small exercises will help improve the circulation and stimulation of your muscles, and as a result, improve your health.

Making these minor changes while performing the hip lunge stretch will help bring your body back to homeostasis. During our day to day lives, there are so many occurrences where we are hurting our posture, which can throw off our equilibrium. Understanding these minor cues can help you with the everlasting battle of your body, for homeostasis.

If you are planning to start a proper exercise plan, then the hip lunge is the exercise that you can use to warm up your body. When you are tired, it will properly relax your muscles. Perform the exercise at least once a day and you will notice the difference.

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