3. Hold for one minute. Remember, you don’t have to do all 10 of these hip flexor exercises all at once. Integrate some of the static stretches into your day while doing the dynamic stretches before ...

Place a looped band around feet. With core engaged, send hips back into a shallow hinge position, shoulders down and back, ...

As runners, we place a lot of emphasis on taking care of our lower legs. But we can't forget about the larger muscles, tendons and ligaments higher up, like hips, glutes and hamstrings. When one of ...

Clift says these exercises typically involve lifting the thigh towards the torso or resisting extension at the hip joint.

Don't sleep on your mobility, pavement-pounder. These six hip mobility exercises for runners can help you run faster. We get it: Sometimes, you get the urge to lace up your sneakers and just dart ...

Running occurs in three planes: sagittal (front/back), frontal (side-to-side), and transverse (left/right rotation.) Efficient, healthy running happens when your joints are able to move freely through ...

At the end of the day, all runners want to get better at their sport and prevent injury. Symmetry plays a crucial role in ...

Along with bruised toenails, chafing and blisters, hip pain is one of those annoying-yet-all-too-common side effects of running. In fact, in a 2018 survey of 675 marathon runners, nearly half of the ...

If your hamstrings feel tight, you may need to restore pelvic stability through glute strengthening, hip-flexor release and deep breathing to relieve chronic tension.

Runners see a lot of different stretching poses, but are often confused on the best stretches to keep them healthy and ready for optimal performance. This ten-stretch program for runners was developed ...

Hip mobility—the capacity to move your hips in their full range of motion—is kind of like a superpower for runners. "Stride length and stride frequency are the two components of speed," writes Takacs ...