Exercise Your Hip Muscles!Your hip muscles help to support and stabilize one of the body’s largest weight bearing joints. The hip joint is working hard whether we are still or moving. The hip is one of the most powerful joints in the body. No wonder, it has to support our whole body weight! It is a ball and socket joint helping to move the leg in four different ranges of motion. There are four muscle groups and about 17 different muscles that move the hip in these four directions.
These muscle groups work together to support and stabilize the pelvic girdle that makes up the hip and sacrum region. Without this support we would not be able to walk or move freely from our legs. There are tons of free articles below that will teach you the many ways to exercise these muscle groups: FOUR HIP MUSCLE GROUPS: Lateral Rotators or Abductors: This group of muscles works on the outside of the hip and thigh to move the leg out or away from the body. The hip abductors consist of the: piriformis, external and internal obturators and the superior and inferior gemelli. The Adductors This group is on the medial or inside of the hip and thigh and work to move the leg towards the body. This group consists of the adductors brevis, longus, magnus, the pectineus, and the gracilis.
Hip Extensors The largest group that helps to extend the leg or take it back consists of the posterior muscles of the gluteus maximus, medius, minimus, and the tensor fasciae latae.
Hip Flexors The hip flexors bend or lift the leg for walking and include the iliopsoas and quadratus femoris.
The rectus femoris and Sartorius can cause movement at the hip joint also but mostly they work at the knee. Along with these hip muscles are the hip ligaments and tendons. The hip ligaments attach the thighbone to the pelvis for added stability to the hip joint. All of the hip muscles have tendons at the end where they meet the bone. These hip tendons connect muscles to bones.
Free Articles for your Hips, Knees, and Legs
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