It is important to stretch the hips before rigorous athletic activity. Learn how to stretch the hips properly from a professional trainer in this workout video.
Start on 1 knee
Push hips forward
Use variations
Michael Rosengart is a professional fitness trainer in Santa Monica, California.
Off-season training for football: Stretches for the hip. So I'm going to take you through a couple of stretches for the hip and this is part of the cool-down segment. So the first thing we're going to start with is just coming down on to one knee, try to bring the other leg in front of you 90 degree angle in your hip, in your knee. All we're going to do is face straight ahead, push the hips forward, lift the same side arm and then come on back. So do it five times where you just slowly work into it [DEMONSTRATION] then the last time push forward and hold and now focus on taking deep breaths in, which allows the stretch to go a little bit further [DEMONSTRATION] and then tighten up your abdominals to help come out of it. And now a side angle for this version of the hip stretch, we're going to brace the arm, twist into it [DEMONSTRATION] like so and then the further that we want to come down, the deeper the stretch will feel through the glutes. Then after you've done those we're going to come on to the ground, we're going to pull the knee up into the chest, straight on just like the active stretch that we worked with to begin with, then once you have it straight on then pull it across your body but keep your hip on the ground. So I'll show it from the other side, we're going to pull the knee up towards the heart then we're going to keep this hip on the ground. As we pull the knee across your body working towards the opposite hip, you want to pull it as far as you can keeping the left hip that I'm stretching right now on the ground, and again you want to just take a couple of deep breaths to allow the stretch to deepen and then we'll move on. And we'll move on to hamstring stretching.
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