When practicing yoga, we often practice hip opening movements. A flexible hip not only means gaining more yoga poses, but also meets the needs of our physical health..
However, excessive hip opening results in a lack of strength in the hips (stiffness ≠ strength) and instability, which is not only detrimental to yoga practice but also harmful to the body..
So, how should yoga retract the hip, strengthen hip strength, and make the hip more stable after hip opening? (Hip stability with strength ≠ lack of flexibility).
Here, the first point that needs to be understood is that in the general sense, yoga refers to “hip opening”, which mainly refers to the outward extension, outward rotation, forward bending, and backward extension exercises of the hip joint, such as sitting angle, swan pose, split, straight line horse, crouching frog, etc.
So, compared to the above “open” exercises, hip closing or hip retraction exercises mainly involve hip joint adduction and rotation exercises, such as shoelace style, deer style, etc..
So, in order to achieve a truly healthy and scientific flexible hip joint, it is best to do this “open close balance” exercise together in order to maximize the effectiveness of the exercise and reduce risks..
But in yoga, if we want to truly retract the hip and improve the stability of the hip joint, simply doing the above hip retraction exercises is far from enough. We also need to do some stability exercises to strengthen the hip strength..
