IT Band and Glute Stretch
Equipment: Other
Primary muscles: Abductors
Stretching
Hip Circles (prone) Exercise
Hip Circles (prone) is a Beginner Stretching exercise using Body Only for Abductors. Position yourself on your hands and knees on the ground. Maintaining good...
Exercise Details
- Category
- Stretching
- Level
- Beginner
- Equipment
- Body Only
- Force
- Pull
- Mechanic
- Isolation
- Primary muscles
- Abductors
- Secondary muscles
- Adductors
How to Do Hip Circles (prone)
- Position yourself on your hands and knees on the ground. Maintaining good posture, raise one bent knee off of the ground. This will be your starting position.
- Keeping the knee in a bent position, rotate the femur in an arc, attempting to make a big circle with your knee.
- Perform this slowly for a number of repetitions, and repeat on the other side.
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