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!

  1. Prayer Squat

  2. 90/90

  3. Lunge w/ T-Spine Rotation

  4. Leg Drops

  1. Keep keep about shoulder width apart (everyone has a different squat stance)

  2. Take deep inhale through nose

  3. Lower yourself towards floor

  4. Stay in praying position

  5. Use your elbows to push out your knees

  6. Go back to starting position

  7. Exhale breathe using mouth

  1. Front leg is internally rotated

  2. Back leg is externally rotated

  3. Keep back toes down and push towards floor

  4. Elevate back knee up and keep front knee down until forced to go up

  5. Rotate towards middle position and keep feet on floor when reaching middle position

  6. Fully complete the rotation

  7. Reverse

  1. Lunge forward and keep knee about at a 90 degree angle

  2. Drop torso towards knee

  3. Rotate body and arm towards the leg

  4. Put torso back to forward position

  5. Get back to starting position

  6. Do the other side

  1. Start at supine position

  2. Keep your lower back against the mat

  3. Put your arms up with palms facing each other

  4. Put your legs up

  5. Drop down one leg at a time to create a 180 degrees with your body while maintaining your lower back against the mat

  6. Raise your leg back up in starting position

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