Are Your Hips Too Tight? Do These Hip-Opening Exercises For Relief
Are Your Hips Too Tight? Do These Hip-Opening Exercises For Relief
It is important to stay physically active in order to boost your muscle and bone health. Sedentary lifestyle can cause many health issues that can affect mobility.
Written By: Prerna Mittra | Updated : May 31, 2024 4:56 PM IST
It can be mighty inconvenient to experience tightness of the hips. Usually, people experience tight hips when they lead a sedentary lifestyle that is devoid of physical activities. When one is in a state of inactivity, their muscles and bones may become inflamed. Nowadays, people spend long hours working -- they are bound to their chairs and glued to their laptop screens. All of this can apparently cause their hip flexors to get into a shortened position which, in turn, can affect their movement. To combat this, it is important to move around, take breaks, go for walks and do some stretches. Yoga can be helpful.
Taking to Instagram, Anshuka Parwani, a celebrity yoga and holistic wellness expert demonstrated some hip-opening exercises, stating that these series of asanas will 'instantly give you an energy boost'. According to her, doing these poses will help you with the following:
Improve your flexibility, circulation and range of motion in the hips and legs.
Promote emotional release by releasing stored tension and emotions.
Reduce pain in the lower back and improve posture.
Relieve tightness or discomfort in the hips and surrounding muscles.
Start by sitting in a squatting position, as demonstrated by the expert. Fold your knees and join your hands to stretch your pelvic muscles.
Then, stretch your arms where one is touching the floor and the other is diagonally stretched upwards, towards the ceiling. Repeat on the other side. Look up towards your stretched arm.
Come back to the squatting position.
Now, assume the Butterfly Pose. Fold your legs and bring your feet together. Hold them with your hands and flap your thighs to mimic the movement of a flying butterfly. It will open your pelvic muscles by stretching your thighs.
This should be followed by another pose, wherein your twist both your legs backwards while folding your knees. Keep your knees apart to open your hips. Now, bend forward to stretch your arms.
Next, fold your legs and take one of them in your arms to cradle it like a baby, as demonstrated in the video. Repeat with the other leg.
After this, you can assume a pose wherein you bend forward, while placing the weight of the body on your forearms. Lift your tailbone and place your knees firmly on the floor, as shown in the video. Now, gently move forward and backward.
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