Seated Hip Openers
How to Do 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 Exercise Details
Muscles worked
Seated Hip Openers targets glutes & hip flexors and also works hamstrings. Use the illustration and step-by-step instructions above to learn the movement pattern and practice proper form.
Equipment needed
This is an at-home exercise. Equipment required: no equipment.
Similar exercises
Related exercises that work similar muscle groups include Floor / power jumps / knee to jump squats, burpees / squat thrusts and kneeling hip flexor stretch. Browse our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises.
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