Suggestions for hip strengthening?

[littlelaugh]

I was born with very loose hips. One of them has been bothering me lately. No pain, but lots of popping noise and weakness. I do one exercise to strengthen them (leaning forward, hands to wall, swing one leg back, bring to original position, repeat), but was wondering if anyone had any other ideas?

Thanks,

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[fa_jing]

Try the wall swings but to the side with the base foot pivoted away like a side kick.

Also, work on side splits.

Also, deep horse stance.

Also, deep squats with weight

[littlelaugh]

Thank you fa_jing. I have been working on horse stance quite a bit lately. I will definitely try the wall swings.

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[Becca]

I stumbled on a newish way to strengthen hip flexors. It's called the weighted cleaise (sp?). Hurts like hell but works very well and results start showing very quickly.

How it is done:

A cleaise is a type of squat, but feet are pointed toe out and feet are further apart, similar to horse stance at the bottom. Use a single hand weight holding it by one end with both hands. Dangle the weight between your knees and keep back strait. It is recomended you start with no more than 10 lbs the first time, doing 3 sets of 15 reps.

Makes you glutes burn very quickly. the next day your entier inner leg from groin to ankle will be very tender, but you will recover with only a bit of stretching and a short jog. It took me only 3 weeks to work up from 10 lb weights to 40ers.

[littlelaugh]

Thank you for your input, Becca. Sounds kind of like a 2nd Grande Plie with weights?

Cheers,

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[Jhapa]

http://www.hydroxycut.com/WOMEN/WORKOUT/EXERCISES/BUTT/butt_single_dbell_squats.shtml

make sure to keep your back straight as possible.

[littlelaugh]

Excellent, Jhapa. Thanks :)

[IronMonkey]

Excellent site Jhapa! This can help me as well. I just found out that whenever I sleep for 8 hrs, I burn almost 450 calories, wow :)

[Jhapa]

that's good news, the more i sleep, more calories i burn. i usually don't get more than 6 hours of sleep.