01/06/2026
At tonights RUNFIT session we focused on the hips, relaxing them, opening them up, what we can do to align them to get good hip stability, the building block of running.
Hip stability is your body's ability to control the pelvis and keep the hip joint aligned during movement. It is maintained by key stabilizer muscles (like the gluteus medius and deep rotators) rather than joint flexibility, helping prevent chronic pain and injuries in your lower back, knees, and ankles.
So you might have several aches, tweaks of pain if vairous places but the source can be your hips. Find below a couple of suggestions to help you out.
Warm up them up: boring, yes I know, but knee lifts, opening and closing the gate, rolling the hips is a great way of telling your body that they need to relax from a day being static in a car or behind a desk, before you make them do some hard work.
During your run: Posture, head up, shoulders relaxed to help achieve a neutral pelvis, then let the body just moove to the rythem we were all born with.
Stretching them out after: yet again, boring I hear you yell, but if you have any of the issues listed above it is key, if you have ever done pilates these will seem familiar.
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