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Bulletproof Your Hips with The PT Initiative
Struggling with tight hips? You keep stretching but it don't see results? Here's an easy mobility exercise that will help open those hips and promote stability. Click the link for more on mobility with The PT Initiative!
718K views · 68K reactions | If we can get wiser as we age, why can’t we improve our fitness as well? I know, it’s not the same thing, and physiology works a little differently to knowledge acquisition. But heck, these days being older is no guarantee of wisdom, with the effortless and infinite access to knowledge, we now have thought leaders who are quite young compared to previous norms. Perhaps it’s a different form of wisdom. Maybe we should be looking at fitness differently as we age? At 30 I was much fitter than 20, because I was actively pursuing fitness, vs coasting on youth. At 40 I was much fitter than 30, focused purely on performance, culminating in an appearance at the CrossFit Games. But now, having just turned 48 and on the approach to 50, I don’t have anywhere close to the kind of sheer horsepower I had at 40, yet I still feel fitter. More mobility. Less stress. More muscle. Less aches, pains and injuries. More sleep. Less sugar. More walking. Less inflammatory and stressful workouts. More time to do other fun things outside of the gym. A lot of these things might seem obvious in hindsight. But that’s the thing, we often have to get to this point before we realise something needs changing. Worse, is that it’s all too common to phrase these realisations in negative, ‘ageist’ ways. “I’m getting too old for this...” “I can’t do what I used to do...” “Only young people can do that stuff...” Going forward, I want to keep promoting the message that fitness as we get older is an evolution and a journey. NOT a compromise, NOT a finite pursuit, and certainly NOT a step backward. #sustainablefitness #longevity #healthspan #realworldfitness #averageisexceptional #playthelonggame #mastersfitness #fitover40 #fitover50 #fitover60 | Darren Ellis
45K views · 23K reactions | FIX TIGHT HIP FLEXORS 👀 Do you stretch and stretch and stretch your hip flexors and they never seem to loosen up?😩 Sounds like you need to strengthen them! 💪 The majority of us sit for the majority of the day-whether you’re a student or required to sit at work all day Etc- this reduces the amount our hip flexors are activated- and they get weak! Strengthening your hip flexors can not only help take that constant feeling of tightness away, but it can also help reduce back pain or prevent it from occurring. Now that’s a huge WIN! HIP FLEXOR STRENGTH PROGRESSIONS: 1️⃣ Seated Leg Lifts 2️⃣ Standing banded marches 3️⃣ Kneeling Leg lifts 4️⃣ Kneeling lift over a. Object (yes I chose a ☕️😜) Share & Tag a friend with tight hip flexors! FOLLOW for more pain relief tips! ✅ Disclaimer this post is for educational purposes only. #womenshealth #menshealth #healthyhips #hip #healthybody #healthandwellnesstips #painrelief #painreliefoptions #hipopener #hipopeners #jointpainrelief #flexibilitytraining #hipimpingement #hipmobility #hiphealth #happyhips #hippain | reach.rehab