Hip Opening 1

Instructor:
Breena Maggio
Description:
You may know you need to improve your hip extension and you may be working on that. But how strong are your hip flexors? Can you lift your leg?
Equipment Needed:
Stool (or chair seat), Foam Roller, Half Dome, Strap, Red Squishy Ball, Pool Noodle (or rolled mat or towel)
* Warning: May cause soreness

Instructor:
Breena Maggio
Description:
This class will involve gentle exercises to help improve mobility of the pelvic joints- hips and lumbar spine.
Equipment Needed:
Bolster, Half Dome, Red Squishy Ball, (2) Straps

Instructor:
Tim Harris
Description:
To be able to walk most efficiently (getting the most benefit and doing the least damage), we need to be able to do this thing called “posterior push-off” (among other things) which requires hip extension (among other things). Opening up the largest joint in your body (your hip) -working specifically on hip extension- will increase your body’s ability to push back further, but maybe more importantly, you’ll get a chance to see what your true hip extension looks like.
Equipment Needed:
1/2 Dome, Block, Strap

Instructor:
Breena Maggio
Description:
Our tight hip flexors inhibit both full extension of the hip (think leg going back behind you when you walk) and full hip flexion. This class will give you a chance to spend time both in flexion and working on releasing in extension – both of which will help further your progress of moving through your well- aligned squat.
Equipment Needed:
Half Dome, Strap (maybe 2), Block, Bolster, maybe a second Half Domes or rolled up yoga mat
*Please excuse the headless instructor for the first 30 seconds