How To Increase Your Hip Mobility And Surf, Snowboard or Ski Better

In this article I want to show you how increasing your hip mobility can enhance your surf or snow riding performance.

Personally this has always been an area of weakness for me, as I have a family history of hip replacements, so my hips like to stay tight unless I am doing my mobility exercises to help keep them loose.

Having increased hip mobility has two major benefits to help you perform better…

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1. Enhanced Movement & Performance – Improved hip mobility means more efficient movement patterns, so your ability to jump, land and turn effectively will all improve. If you look at good surf or snow athletes you will see that they get their hips into some positions that wouldn’t be possible if you had stiff hip joints.

2. Reduced Injury Risk – Better hip mobility leads to decreased injury risk for lower back. When you improve how a joint functions, this will often take unnecessary pressure off the joints above and below. Many people have tight hips and this means they compensate by moving from their lumbar spine more than they should, which can cause lower back fatigue and injury.

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To enhance your hip mobility you will need to incorporate some mobility exercises into your workouts.

Check out the video below to see some hip mobility exercises you can get started with…

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Hopefully you can see (and now feel) how an improvement in hip mobility can improve your surf or snow fitness and performance.

If you want to start improving in this area, make sure you have a go at incorporating these exercises into your next workout.

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