Hip Combo: Level 1 - Beginner Level (6 Courses!)

Hip Combo: Beginner Level (6 Online Step by Step Courses) Did you know that stretching your hips is not as simple as it seems? It requires a deep understanding of the muscles involved and how they work together to achieve flexibility. Many muscles affect the flexibility of the hip, such as:Hamstrings: biceps femoris, semimembranosus, semitendinosus.Adductors: brevis, longus, magnus, gracilis, pectineus.Glutes: maximus, medius, minimus.Hip Flexors: psoas major and minor, iliacus, tensor fascia lata, sartorius, rectus femoris.In turn these muscles allow the hip to perform different movements or "actions":Flexion: lifting your knee to your chest.Extension: opposite of flexion.Abduction: moving your leg to the outside.Adduction: opposite of abduction, returning to the midline, contracting adductors or inner thigh muscles.External Rotation: rotating your whole leg on its vertical axis, contracting gluteals, piriformis, gluteus maximus and medius, the "deep six" (gemelli and obturators, qu