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fromiRunFar
1 week ago

Understanding and Improving Hip Efficiency, Part 1

For runners, the hips can be one of the most confounding and frustrating parts of the physiological puzzle for efficient movement. Every runner knows how crucial hip strength is - and how mobile hips are essential for both fast and pain-free running. Yet healthy, happy hips remain elusive. For many of us, our hips stay stiff no matter how much we massage and stretch them.
Exercise
Yoga
fromYoga Journal
1 month ago

This Challenging Forward Bend Teaches You Simple Lessons About Yoga

Maintain natural spinal curves by hinging at the hips during forward bends to minimize lumbar stress and preserve spinal length and structure.
Mindfulness
fromYoga Journal
1 month ago

Seeking the Ultimate Hamstring Stretch? You Need This Yoga Pose.

Reclining Big Toe Pose stretches hamstrings, improves circulation and joint suppleness, relieves neck/shoulder tension, and cultivates mindful, breath-paced stretching.
Yoga
fromYoga Journal
1 month ago

Tight Hip Flexors? You Need These 7 Stretches to Relieve Discomfort.

Hip flexors connect hip and leg, support posture and movement, and require balanced stretching, strengthening, and breath to prevent tightness and low-back strain.
Yoga
fromYoga Journal
2 months ago

How to Practice Extended Side Angle Pose

Extended Side Angle Pose strengthens and stretches lower-body muscles, especially inner thighs and hip ligaments, revealing leg strength and joint mobility limitations in Western students.
fromYoga Journal
3 months ago

Tight Hips? Try This 15-Minute Yin Yoga Practice for a Quick Release.

If tight hips plague you, yin yoga could be the solution you've been needing. Everyday habits-sitting at a desk, driving, or even subjecting your body to chronic stress-can leave your hips feeling stiff and sore. Yin yoga's extended holds target the deep fascia and connective tissues that contribute to this tightness. Working with it can help you experience immediate release as well as enhanced flexibility.
Yoga
Major League Baseball
fromLos Angeles Times
5 months ago

What's behind Clayton Kershaw's pitching revival in his 18th season? 'The bowl'

Improved hip/pelvis ('bowl') mobility revitalized Clayton Kershaw's body, enabling a resurgent 2025 season despite reduced velocity and past surgeries.
Yoga
fromYoga Journal
7 months ago

Want Relief From Tight Hips? These Are the Stretches You Need.

The Outside+ app offers essential hip-opening stretches for athletes, promoting flexibility and mobility.
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