Lower Body Mobility
Do you hit your lower body when you are all tight? It is important to make sure your hips are loose before starting your leg days!
Let’s level up your leg days by doing mobility work.
Doing mobility work will help you move better and increase your range of motion. By improving this, you will be able to hit more muscle fibers during your exercise sets, therefore transferring to more muscle activation and GROWTH!
Here are four lower body mobility exercises you should keep in rotation!
Prayer Squat
90/90
Lunge w/ T-Spine Rotation
Leg Drops
Keep keep about shoulder width apart (everyone has a different squat stance)
Take deep inhale through nose
Lower yourself towards floor
Stay in praying position
Use your elbows to push out your knees
Go back to starting position
Exhale breathe using mouth
Front leg is internally rotated
Back leg is externally rotated
Keep back toes down and push towards floor
Elevate back knee up and keep front knee down until forced to go up
Rotate towards middle position and keep feet on floor when reaching middle position
Fully complete the rotation
Reverse
Lunge forward and keep knee about at a 90 degree angle
Drop torso towards knee
Rotate body and arm towards the leg
Put torso back to forward position
Get back to starting position
Do the other side
Start at supine position
Keep your lower back against the mat
Put your arms up with palms facing each other
Put your legs up
Drop down one leg at a time to create a 180 degrees with your body while maintaining your lower back against the mat
Raise your leg back up in starting position