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 exercise that targets glutes & hip flexors and also works hamstrings. Use the illustration and instructions above to learn how to perform this exercise with proper form. Related exercises that work similar muscle groups include Pelvic tilt with marching, seated resistance bands leg presses / extensions and prone / lying leg lifts. Browse our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises.
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