Seated Hip Openers
- Seat yourself comfortably on a solid chair, with your back straight and unsupported and your feet planted about hip-width apart.
- Raise one leg and place the outside of the ankle across the top of the planted leg’s knee.
- Lightly use both hands to place a little pressure to the now elevated knee.
- You should feel a stretch along the rear of you thigh, glute, and in your groin.
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Seated hip openers is a at-home work out exercise that targets glutes & hip flexors and also involves hamstrings. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Leg press / machine squat press, snap jumps and sumo / plié dumbbell squats are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as seated hip openers. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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