Hips
Seated hip opener
Mobility · Seated
- How to do it
- Sit tall with feet planted. Slowly open both knees outward, then bring them back toward center.
- Dose
- 8 reps
- What you should feel
- The inside of your hip opening
- Common mistake
- Collapsing the low back.
- Make it easier
- Reduce the range.
- Avoid this movement if
- You feel groin pain.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- Moves the hip through rotation without standing up.
Stop this movement if it causes sharp or worsening pain, numbness, weakness or dizziness.
Evidence
General movement principle.
- Effectiveness of workplace interventions in the prevention of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders and symptoms: an update of the evidence (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2016)