Hip excersises

[Liam888]

Hey has anyone got any effective excersises to loosen the hips and give more moverability into them to do at home, at my club we put are hands on are hips and swivel around and also sit with legs crossed and pus down on our knees with our elbows but my hips seem to always have pain the next day especially foing roundhouse kicks

thanks Liam

[bushido_man96]

You might look at doing standing quad stretches to loosen the hip flexors up a bit more. Do several reps, and hold for several seconds. Also, you can do them on the floor, sitting on your knees and leaning back, and to the left and right. Another variation is to put the top of one foot on a bench, and that knee on the floor (or a mat), with the other foot up like kneeling on one knee, just the other foot is propped back on the bench. Then you can stretch down, forward some, up, and twist to the sides.

Hope that helps. Welcome to KF!

[LittleW]

In preparation for the sidekicks we swing our legs to the side several times. Might also help.

[Ueshirokarate]

For active flexibility (not static stretching), you need to do some dynamic stretching.

http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/dynamicstretching.html

My flashplayer isn't working, or I would post a couple of videos of such stretches.

By the way, your pain may not be flexibility related at all and you may wish to consider seeing a physiatrist (MD Physical Medicine) about it.

[todome]

Hey has anyone got any effective excersises to loosen the hips and give more moverability into them to do at home, at my club we put are hands on are hips and swivel around and also sit with legs crossed and pus down on our knees with our elbows but my hips seem to always have pain the next day especially foing roundhouse kicks

thanks Liam

That's probably more a function of iffy technique than iffy muscles. Make SURE you're not dropping your knee during extension of the leg otherwise you're playing hell with your quads, particularly with kicks that require a lot of hip rotation at the same time (roundhouse and side kicks). See if that doesn't make getting out of bed the next morning a little less painful.

I always tell junior belts to check with sensei before trundling off to physio.