Your Poor Hip Internal Rotation is WRECKING Your Knees

Neglected hip internal rotators can be easily remedied instead of damaging your knees. These three hip internal rotation exercises will get those hip muscles activated and strong to combat our modern lifestyle. If your hips aren’t rotating properly, your knees are the backup. They’ll absorb all of the force your hips should have, which builds more wear and tear since your knees are hinge joints, not ball and socket joints. In short, poor internal rotation turns into knee pain. A couple of cues for the exercises: First, you should feel these exercises in the muscles on the front and upper sides of your hips. Those are the muscles you’re trying to work. If you aren’t feeling anything there, check your form against the video. Second, if you feel cramping, that’s normal. It happens because your muscles are in the shortened range of motion and don’t yet know what to do about it. Breathe into the muscle and slowly do the exercises. Your muscles are relearning what they’re supposed t