Hips

Hips

This collection of videos focuses on the complexity of the hip joint, which is an extremely important weight-bearing joint. Learn how to strengthen hip musculature and improve overall hip mechanics with sound cueing and modifications. Video topics include free weight training, elastic resistance, barre, Yoga, Pilates, Therapeutic exercises, and various Fusion formats

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Hips
  • Video 584 | Abs & Hip Calisthenics (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This bodyweight routine is designed to build muscles in your glutes, inner and outer thighs, hamstrings, and abdominals. We will begin a floor sequence for the inner / outer thighs, then move into a bodyweight glute and hip calisthenics. The second half of this workout moves into an abdominal r...

  • Video 583 | Integrated Hip Isometrics (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this Isometric workout, we will be utilizing isometric resistance training for the hips while integrating the knee, ankle, foot, and spine as a progressive approach to isolation work. Practice multi-joint isometric positions using one or two legged standing positions followed by several seate...

  • Video 582 | Hip Rotation: Micro Workout (9.5 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    If you are short on time, this micro workout is designed to give you some targeted resistance training for a very important area: The hip rotators.

    These muscles work to move the hips both internally and externally, absorbing ground forces and taking on the weight of the torso. When these mus...

  • Video 573 | Building Glutes: Micro Workout (10 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    If you are short on time, this micro workout is designed to give you some targeted resistance training for a very important area: The Gluteal muscles. In this workout, we will practice variations on the glute bridge to target the lower back, hamstrings, and glutes. You will feel stronger, talle...

  • Video 570 | Hip and Core Prehab (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Prehabilitation is the practice of keeping our joints healthy as preventative maintenance. It requires a constant revision of basic principles, patience, consistency, and practice.

    This bodyweight routine is jammed full of hip and spine exercise essentials, designed to address some of the maj...

  • Video 571 | Strong Quads and Thighs (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this workout, we will focus on a very important set of muscles that not only flex the hip, but also straighten the knee. Hip flexor muscles include the psoas major, iliacus, tensor fascia latae, and rectus femoris. The quadriceps also extend the knee, making it straight. These are an essenti...

  • Videeo 559 | Osteo-Hips (35 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Osteoporosis is often referred to as the “silent” disease because you typically do not have symptoms until you break a bone or become informed at a routine doctor visit. It develops when bone mineral density and bone mass decreases, or when the quality or structure of bone changes.

    Osteoporosis ...

  • Video 550 | Lateral Hip Bursitis Rx (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This strengthening routine is designed to combat outer hip pain using isometric and concentric resistance training with dumbbells, a thigh band, and a support.

    Lateral hip pain is commonly referred to as "Trochanteric Bursitis". This is a condition where the large bony prominence on the outsi...

  • Live Event | Yoga Therapy for Hips and Low Back (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Sports, exercise, and daily life requires us to perform similar joint actions over and over, leaving other motions and positions relatively untrained. Nothing that we do in life is symmetrical, leaving us with an overall sense of tightness. This tightness can be combated by improving our muscle...

  • Video 510 | Hip and Knee Flexion Boost (15 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you to strengthen the hip and knee flexor muscles using the resistance coming from bodyweight and a sponge ball. Weakness in these areas can cause low back and hip tightness, and knee instability. These muscles deal with pron...

  • Video 508 | Hip and Knee Extension Boost (15 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you to strengthen the hip and knee extensor muscles using the resistance coming from bodyweight, a thigh band, and a sponge ball. Weakness in these areas can cause low back tightness and knee instability, as these muscles figh...

  • Video 150 | Hips and Thighs Bodyweight Workout (35 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Bodyweight exercises can build muscle and teach you to hone your technique and form. This video will target the hips, thighs, gluteals, and lower back with no equipment...just the weight of your body! Some of the principles in this video include increased repetition, decreased rest times, and m...

  • Video 497 | Hamstrings and Hip Extension (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this targeted hamstring, glutes, and hip extension class, we will use the stability ball as a platform and resistance tool with bodyweight and dumbbells as resistance. The workout begins with some of the most effective hamstring work using the ball for eccentric training. Next, the ball creat...

  • Video 494 | Isometric Hip Boost: Adduction (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you to strengthen the inner hip muscles using the resistance coming from bodyweight, a sponge ball, and a thigh band to create the isometric exercises. Weakness in these areas can cause pelvic instability, making you more susc...

  • Video 492 | Isometric Hip Boost: Abduction (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you to strengthen the outer hip muscles using the resistance coming from bodyweight, a sponge ball, and a Yoga block to create the isometric exercises. Weakness in these areas can cause tightness in the trunk and spine, making...

  • Video 491 | SI Joint Pain Relief (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Pain originating from spasms in your piriformis muscle, a large muscle located deep in the buttock, is called piriformis syndrome. Even though this condition is very common, it is a complex problem to treat. The key is to keep surrounding muscles around the pelvis, hips and core strong and regu...

  • Video 485 | Chair Yoga for Tight Hips (45 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this Hatha Yoga practice, we will use a chair to help us access various hip-focused asanas. The chair raises the floor to meet our body's needs and serves as a platform to press against for muscle activation. You will need a Yoga block and a Yoga strap for this workout.

    We will begin from a...

  • Video 487 | Express Chair Yoga for Hips (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Many individuals suffer from chronic hip tightness and immobility, making it very difficult to get to the floor. This may be due to injury, sedentary lifestyle, or muscle weakness to name a few reasons. Chairs can be wonderful tools to help make exercise more comfortable.

    In this Express Hatha...

  • Video 475 | SI Joint Stability (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The SI Joint is small and very strong, reinforced by strong ligaments that surround it, and does not have much motion. It functions to transmit forces from the upper body to the pelvis (hips) and legs and to act as a shock-absorbing structure.

    In this video, we will be focusing on exercises tha...

  • Video 473 | Thigh Band Express (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This express workout includes a standing warm-up followed by thigh band exercises designed to strengthen the thighs, glutes, and hips while activating the surrounding muscles of the trunk and spine. The exercises will train the gluteus maximus, minimus, and medius muscle groups as well as many h...

  • Video 471 | Isometric Hip Boost: Rotation (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This isometric routine is designed to target rotation of the hips

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight routine will help you strengthen muscles that cross the hip to perform internal and external rotation, such as the gluteals, piriformis, superior and inferior gemelli, obturato...

  • Video 463 | Mobility Challenge: Day 2 (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    On Day 2 of the mobility series, we will look to strengthen hip flexion, knee extension, ankle dorsiflexion on the way down into the hip hinge, then hip extension, knee extension, and ankle plantar flexion on the way up. Within this, we also look at the spine's involvement in the hip hinge.

    We b...

  • Video 462 | Mobility Challenge: Day 1 (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    On day 1 of the mobility series, we will look to strengthen hip flexion, knee flexion, ankle dorsiflexion on the way down to the squat, then hip extension, knee extension, and ankle plantar flexion on the way up. Within this, we also look at the spine's involvement in the squat.

    We begin by exp...

  • Live Event: Joint Stability Series: Hips (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This 60 minute workout is designed to strengthen hip muscles that adduct, abduct, flex, extend, and rotate the hip joint in a variety of positions. The focus is to expose and strengthen muscle imbalances by improving contraction responsiveness. The instability of the the ball requires the use o...