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Welcome to our weekly Move of the Week series. Every Monday, we’ll be sharing with you one of our favourite exercises – how to do them, what muscles they work and why they should be a regular part of your workout regime. This week: lying figure four.
Our modern lifestyles aren’t designed with our hips in mind. First, we sit down all day, compressing the joint and tightening the muscles that wrap around our glutes, backs and thighs. Then we do intense workouts that involve our exercises like squats and bridges that involve our hips moving through a large range of motion. That’s probably why hip tightness is one of the most common complaints.
But with some simple stretches, you lengthen out the muscles and ease some of that pain. Our favourite is the figure four stretch.
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