0:01 Good day everyone. Trainer Maxim with
0:03 you. Thank you very much for joining me
0:05 for this session. Today we're going to
0:07 do a follow along session for the hip
0:17 strength. Before we start, I want to
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0:33 everyone. Let's start with a simple
0:35 warm-up routine for your hips. First,
0:37 you just take this position. One leg
0:40 forward, one leg back, lean forward,
0:44 suck the leg in, spine tall, and just 20
0:46 seconds. Stay in that position. And
0:49 let's go. One, two, three, four, five,
0:53 six, seven, eight, nine, 10. One, two,
0:58 three, four, five, six, 7, 8, 9, 20.
1:01 Done. Good. And change the leg. Good.
1:03 Same idea. Spine tall. Don't crunch.
1:05 Suck the leg
1:08 in. Open shoulders. And go. 20 seconds.
1:14 Very light stretch. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1:20 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20. And done.
1:23 Rest. And immediately let's do the other
1:27 drill kind of doggy drill or froggy
1:29 drill. This position
1:32 here. No crunching. Spine tall.
1:34 Shoulders open. Look ahead of you. Bring
1:38 the feet apart. And just 20 seconds. 1 2
1:48 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20.
1:51 And done. Rest. Good. Shake it a little
1:54 bit. And the final part of this, just
1:57 straddle. Sit in this position. Legs
1:59 apart. No need to lean forward. Just sit
2:02 tall. Suck the legs in. Uh upright
2:05 position of your torso. No need to do
2:07 anything. Just enjoy the stretch. A mild
2:09 stretch in the inner thighs. 20 seconds.
2:16 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. One, two, three,
2:20 four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And
2:23 done. Rest. Great. Give it a shake. Uh
2:25 the goal is not to stretch stretch. It's
2:27 a warm-up stretch. So we need just very
2:30 light tension. Two, three out of 10. 10.
2:32 Oh my god. Stretch. Cannot breathe. Get
2:34 me out of here. And two, three,
2:36 whatever. So we need two, three just to
2:38 warm up the hips. Let's do uh this
2:41 sequence one more time. Three uh three
2:44 of those in a sequence. Let's go. Place
2:46 the leg here. Suck the leg in to create
2:48 the compression here. Remember your true
2:51 hip is here. All the movement is
2:52 happening here. So you're not bending
2:55 here. You're bending here. And go. Hip
2:58 is bending here. Good. And go. 20
3:07 seconds. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 2 3 4 5
3:12 6 7 8 9 20. Good. Switch the position.
3:15 Switch the legs. Same idea. Leg
3:19 in. The hip is bending here. Not here.
3:25 Back in. Go. 20. 1 2 spine tall. 3 4 5 6
3:34 7 8 9 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20. Done.
3:37 Good. The next one. Let's do the uh
3:39 doggy stretch. Doggy. Because I have
3:41 never seen a frog doing it, but my dog
3:43 does the stretch every time. Uh, I call
3:45 it a doggy stretch. This position, feet
3:48 apart. Same idea. Legs in. Remember the
3:51 legs are bending here. Spine tall. No
3:56 crunching. And go. 20 seconds. 1 2 3 4 5
4:00 6 7 8 9 10. Reach out with the tailbone
4:02 back a little bit. Elongate the back,
4:05 the lower spine. One, two, three, four,
4:09 five, six, seven, eight, nine, 20. Done.
4:12 Good. And let's do the straddle kind of
4:15 precursor of the pancake stretch. So
4:17 this position legs in. Try to create the
4:19 compression here. So that the
4:21 compression the hip flexor is pulling
4:23 the pelvis
4:25 forward. Therefore the body leans
4:27 slightly forward. Not that you're
4:29 bending the stomach trying to do this.
4:34 And sit tall. Mild stretch. One 2 3 4 5
4:43 6 7 8 9 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 and
4:46 down. Great. Let's warm up the hips.
4:48 First exercise we're going to do, you're
4:51 sitting on the floor. This position,
4:54 arms back, spine tall, shoulders back,
4:56 looking straight ahead. Make sure that
4:58 you're not crunching and legs up and
5:01 down. Not too high, but every time touch
5:09 it for 20 seconds. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
5:11 rest. Now legs a little bit higher and
5:18 scissors. 20 seconds. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
5:26 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20. Rest. Very
5:28 good. Give it a shake. So the goal is
5:30 not to bend in the stomach too much. The
5:32 goal is just to keep the spine tall. And
5:35 if you tiny bit round in the lower back,
5:37 it's fine. But generally try to keep the
5:39 pelvis tilted forward so that the hip
5:41 flexors going up and down. The goal is
5:43 not to not to chase the height. We don't
5:47 want to do this. One, two, three. Just
5:50 as much uh uh height as your flexibility
5:52 in the hamstrings allows. Let's do it
5:57 one more time. And go up and down. 1 2 3
6:07 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
6:11 Rest. Good. And scissors. 20 seconds. 1
6:19 2 3 4. Spine tall. 5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 2 3 4
6:25 5 6 7 8 9 10. Rest. Great job everyone.
6:28 Let's transition into the position on
6:31 the stomach. Very simple one. And you go
6:35 lie down here. Good. Just keep the upper
6:37 spine extended a little bit. So the chin
6:40 is not on the floor. Legs together. And
6:42 try to lead with the upper legs. Bring
6:44 the upper legs off the floor. 20
6:46 seconds. And scissors after that. And
6:50 go. One, two, three, four, five, six,
6:55 seven, eight, nine, 10. One, two, three,
7:00 four, five, six, 7, 8, 9, 20. Good. Legs
7:08 up. Scissors. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 2
7:15 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30. Rest. Very good. Nice.
7:16 So, the goal here is not to lead with
7:19 the feet, not to do this. Feet feet.
7:22 feet up but the upper legs to use your
7:25 hamstrings, glutes and other guys. Let's
7:27 it one more time. Lead with the upper
7:29 legs keeping the spine neutral. No
7:32 arching in the lower back. No trying to
7:34 do this. Neutral spine. Upper back
7:37 extended. Shoulders open. Spine tall.
7:45 And go. One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 2 3 4
7:53 5 6 7 8 9 20. Good. Scissors. 1 2 3 4 5
8:01 6 7 8 9 20 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and
8:04 done. Perfect. Easy
8:07 peasy. Back on the back. Lying down on
8:11 the back. Face position. Arms sideways.
8:13 Relax. Good. Keep the spine tall. No
8:17 crunching. And leg up. Circle movements.
8:19 10 seconds in one direction. 10 seconds
8:21 in the other. Same on the other side.
8:25 Trying to keep the spine intact. And go.
8:31 One, two, three, four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9,
8:38 10. Opposite direction. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
8:42 9 10. Rest. Good. The other one. Same
8:49 thing. 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
8:52 Opposite direction. As wide as you can.
9:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Rest. Perfect. So
9:02 the goal here is to isolate the movement
9:04 of the legs from the movement of the
9:06 rest of the body. We want to move the
9:09 leg around the hip, not with the hip,
9:10 not with the spine. So, we want
9:13 definitely to avoid these movements when
9:15 the body is going side to side like
9:18 crazy. Some movements, okay, but try to
9:22 stay still. Let's do it one more time.
9:24 Arms up, legs. Suck the legs in.
9:25 Remember, the movement is happening
9:30 here, not here. And go. One, two, three,
9:35 four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
9:44 Good. Opposite. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
9:47 Rest. Good to the other one. Same thing.
9:57 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Opposite. 1 2 3 4
10:04 5 6 7 8 9 10. And rest. Fantastic. Let's
10:07 keep going. Let's go and sit again in
10:08 straddle this
10:11 position. Don't push too wide. We don't
10:13 need any stretch at this point. If you
10:14 feel comfortable uh sitting like this,
10:17 sit like this. Spine tall. Shoulders
10:19 forward. Now you're going to bring the
10:22 leg up. 10 circles in one direction. The
10:25 other direction. Same here. Simple.
10:29 Angle leg in. One, two, three, four,
10:33 five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
10:40 Opposite. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Rest.
10:47 Good. Same idea. Leg in. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
10:54 9 10. Opposite. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
10:56 Rest. Very good. Give it a shake. You
10:58 might feel a lot of engagement in the
11:00 quads. That's fine. In general, try to
11:02 focus on that idea of the legs sucked
11:05 in. The tension is felt here. The
11:07 movement is happening here. The true at
11:10 the true hips. Try to emphasize the
11:12 movements towards the back, not in front
11:15 of you, but up and back to the wall.
11:18 Let's do it one more time. Back. One 2 3
11:27 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Opposite. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
11:31 8 9 10. Very good. The other one more to
11:35 the back. One, two, three, four, five,
11:39 six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Opposite.
11:44 One, two, three, four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9,
11:48 10. Perfect. Nice. Just do your best.
11:51 Now, all time favorite. Let's stay
11:54 seated. Feet together. Place the hands
11:57 here on the fingertips. Spine tall. No
12:00 crunching. Legs in and therefore up. 10
12:04 reps. 10 second hold after the each set.
12:06 Knee and gole. Legs in therefore up. Two
12:17 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Hold. 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
12:20 9. Rest. Very good. Nice. Try not to
12:22 crunch too much. Try not to lean back
12:25 too much. Not like this. Definitely.
12:27 Just tighten the shoulders. Tighten the
12:31 spine. Sink the fingertips into the
12:32 floor. And if it's too easy for you,
12:34 then go flat on the palms, especially
12:37 with the u the base of the palm on the
12:40 floor. Too easy, you keep advancing.
12:43 Fingers, palms, fingers, palms, fingers,
12:46 palms. As the flexibility of yours
12:48 improves, you can move further forward.
12:50 Further forward. Ultimate goal would be
12:53 to go here and one, two, three, four,
12:55 five. But that's difficult. Let's stick
12:57 to the first version. On the fingertips
13:01 by the knees, angle legs in. 10 reps. 1
13:12 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Hold 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6
13:17 7 8 9. Rest. Perfect. Let's do something
13:20 easy. We're going to stay on all fours
13:23 just like this. Spine tall, shoulders
13:26 open, no crunching. And bring the leg
13:29 first forward to the chest without
13:32 crunching. Straighten the leg sideways.
13:35 One. Return in the reverse order. One.
13:38 One.
13:45 Two. Three. Good. Four. 10 reps.
13:48 Five. Six.
13:57 8 9
14:00 9
14:04 10 rest. Very good. Nice. Try to isolate
14:07 the leg movement from the hip. Some mild
14:09 movement of the spine. Fine. But try to
14:11 stay still. Let's do it on the other
14:14 side. Same idea. Spine tall. Good. No
14:17 crunching, no arching. Just neutral.
14:21 Knee forward. Sideways. One.
14:25 Good. Two. No kicking. Just gentle movement.
14:27 movement. Three.
14:30 Three. Four.
14:33 Four. 5.
14:36 5. 6.
14:39 6. 7.
14:41 7. 8.
14:44 8. 9.
14:46 9.
14:51 10. Done. Very good. The goal here is to
14:54 keep the leg moving around the hip while
14:56 you're making the spinal stable using
14:58 your spinal muscles, using your core
15:00 muscles, using your body awareness and
15:03 coordination and balance and other 2500
15:05 things we've talked about in my other
15:09 videos. I one more time the other side.
15:11 So when you bring the knee to the chest,
15:13 it's definitely not a crunch. So the
15:16 core taking your pelvis into the extreme
15:18 posterior pelvic tilt neutral pelvis
15:20 pelvis is not going forward when you
15:23 bring the knee forward. So therefore
15:27 don't push just move it gently in
15:31 straightened sideways. One. Good. Spine tall.
15:34 tall.
15:37 Two. Three. Good. Try to go tiny bit higher.
15:40 higher.
15:52 7 8
15:57 9
16:01 10 Rest. Good. Switch
16:04 sides. Same idea. Spine tall. Shoulders
16:09 open. No crunching. Go tin higher.
16:12 One. Two.
16:14 No kicking, just press.
16:18 Three. Spine to four.
16:21 Press. Press with the hip flexors. Five.
16:27 6 7
16:33 8 9
16:36 9
16:39 10. Great.
16:42 Now we're going to do the uh lunges
16:44 alternating between the front lunge and
16:46 the back lunge. 10 for each side. So
16:48 you're standing here. You can grab a
16:50 couple of light dumbbells if you want.
16:53 Standing tall and you're going forward
16:59 leg in down. One back. Two and three and
17:06 four. Spine. Five and six and seven and
17:12 eight. And 9 and 10. No rush. Perfect.
17:16 And switch the other side. Same idea.
17:19 Forward. Back. Two.
17:26 Forward. Back. Four. Good. And five. And
17:30 six. 7. Good. 8.
17:32 8.
17:36 9. 10. And rest. Very good. Just
17:38 remember that the true hips are here.
17:40 We're bending at these spots, keeping
17:43 the spine tall. At no point we want to
17:46 do this one. When we lean forward with
17:49 the uh either with the hands empty or
17:52 dumbbells and after push back spine is
17:54 upright, you're going forward strictly
17:57 down bending here in the first place.
18:01 Let's do one more time. And go forward
18:03 one back. 2
18:05 2 3
18:06 3 4
18:08 4 5
18:10 5 6
18:11 6 7
18:13 7 8
18:15 8
18:19 9 10 and good. The other side. Same
18:24 idea. This one forward and one
18:25 one 2
18:27 2 3
18:29 3 4
18:30 4 5
18:32 5 6
18:34 6 7
18:36 7 8
18:37 8
18:42 9 10 and rest. Right now we're going to
18:44 do a very interesting exercise called
18:46 Kaak squats. And this drill is very dear
18:49 to me because I'm actually from a city
18:52 called Rasa Hondon in Russia. And that
18:59 Kha'Zix, the south borders of Russia uh
19:05 ago Kha'Zix squats. So let's do it.
19:08 Standing tall. We're going to alternate
19:11 between the sides, left, right. 10 reps.
19:14 So stay in this position. Take a wide
19:20 step sideways and go. One and two. Good.
19:27 And three. And four. And five. Spine
19:33 tall. Six. Spine tall. Seven. Spine
19:39 tall. Eight. Spine tall. Nine. Good. And
19:42 10. and rest. Very good. Remember two
19:44 things. You're bending here. You're not
19:46 bending on the knees. So from the side,
19:48 it looks like this.
19:52 One, two, and not not with the knees
19:54 going forward. So don't think that
19:55 you're bending at the knees. Keep the
19:59 knees relaxed, loose, so the knees can
20:01 bend when the hip bends. The main goal
20:03 is to maintain the position. Leg in,
20:07 bending here, spine tall. One. Good. Not
20:09 with the knee forward. Don't think that
20:11 you're extending the knee. You're
20:12 straightening the knee on the way up.
20:17 No, you're picturing the upper leg going
20:18 down into the shin bone. So, you're
20:21 starting the movement from these guys to
20:23 get up. So, the movement initiated by
20:27 the hamstrings, add mus and other guys.
20:30 One that will push the knee if anything
20:33 back a little bit and not forward. Save
20:35 the knees. Let's do one more time.
20:38 Standing tall. Upright position. Spine
20:45 tall. And go. One. Good. Two. Good.
20:48 Three. Spine tall. Bend at the true hip.
20:54 Four. True hip. Five. True hip. Six.
20:59 True hip. Seven. True hip. Eight. Don't
21:02 lean forward too much.
21:05 Nine. 10. For those of you who don't
21:09 know what the true hip is, have a look
21:11 at my video gymnastics hip mechanics. I
21:14 explained everything in that video.
21:16 Let's do the next one. We're going to do
21:17 a very interesting variation of the
21:19 squats. I'm going to do that with 5 lb
21:22 dumbbells. If you don't have dumbbells,
21:23 just do that with the empty hands, but I
21:25 will make it more interesting for you.
21:27 So, we're going to go in this position
21:30 wider upright upright spine, shoulders
21:33 open, bending the true hips. You go into
21:36 the squat, deep squat. One, and with the
21:40 dumbbells up behind the ears, two, and
21:43 return. And let's do five of that. Uh,
21:45 squats. And we're going to hold for 10
21:47 seconds at the end with the arms behind
21:52 the ears. Ready? And go. Squat. One.
21:54 One.
22:00 Good. Two. Legs in. Legs in.
22:02 Three. Good. Spine
22:06 upright. Four. Good. Upper spine
22:09 extended. Five. Hold it for 10 seconds.
22:15 One, two, three, four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9,
22:19 10. Rest. Very good. Might be slightly
22:22 challenging. So, try to make sure that
22:24 you're not going into the squats with
22:25 this position and not holding the
22:28 dumbbells here as upright as possible.
22:31 Keep the spine neutral. Again, I have a
22:33 video on the neutral spine, gymnastic
22:35 spinal mechanics. Check it out. Let's do
22:38 it one more time. Same
22:41 idea. Staying tall at the hips. Kind of
22:43 sucking the legs in. Relax
22:48 in. One. Good. Not too fast. Control.
22:50 Relax in.
22:53 Two. Good.
22:55 Control. Three. Good.
22:57 Good.
23:00 Control. Four.
23:04 Good. Control. Legs in. Legs in. Hold.
23:07 One. Two. Legs in. Spine tall. Four.
23:11 Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. 10. Rest. Very
23:12 Very
23:16 good. Nice. Next one. For this one, we
23:18 will need a very long stick. If you
23:20 don't have a long run stick, you can use
23:23 a long towel, a long strap, an elastic
23:25 band, whatever. Just be creative. We're
23:28 going to challenge the hips uh while
23:30 working with the shoulder mobility. So,
23:32 we're going to take this position, squat
23:34 position. Stay in that position,
23:36 focusing all the time on the hips, true
23:39 hips, relaxing, staying well planted,
23:42 not heels off. Grab it wide. And from
23:45 this position, go all the way down. One,
23:49 two, and three. And we're going to do 10
23:52 of these movements. After that, hold the
23:54 position with the stick behind the back
23:56 for 10 seconds. Again, the entire focus
23:59 is on the hips. How well you control the
24:00 hips while you're distracted by the
24:03 movement of the arms. That's the
24:04 essence, right? We need to keep the
24:06 control when we're performing other
24:08 difficult exercises. The hips are our
24:11 base. It must support the other
24:13 movements. That's exactly what we're
24:15 going to train. Let's go down into the
24:17 squat as low as you can, as vertical as
24:20 you can, wider position, and go 10 reps.
24:23 One. Good.
24:27 Two. Three. Focus on the hips.
24:31 Four. Five. Good. Six. Spine tall.
24:34 Seven. Upper spine extended. Eight. Legs
24:42 in. 9. And hold for 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
24:48 9 10. Rest. Nice. Good. If you feel some
24:50 burn in the quads or anywhere else, just
24:53 don't pay attention. It's in your head.
24:55 Just focus on the movement and keep your
24:57 face straight. Very important. Let's do
24:58 it one more
25:00 time. Same
25:03 idea. 10 reps. If you have good shoulder
25:04 mobility, you can go narrower to
25:06 challenge the shoulders a little bit
25:08 more at the same time, but the shoulders
25:10 are not the focus here. And go. Grab it.
25:17 White. Go down. Hips and up. One. Good.
25:20 Two. Upright. Three. Hips.
25:25 Four. Legs in. Upper legs in. Five. Six.
25:26 Six. 7.
25:28 7.
25:33 8. 9. 10. Hold. 10. 1 2 3. Pretend that
25:39 it's easy. Four. Five. 6 7 8 9 10. Rest.
25:42 Very good. Oh, good job, guys. Now,
25:44 we're going to do a cool down. We're
25:46 going to take the squat position. Stay
25:50 there for one minute. Slightly bouncing.
25:52 So, we'll go here. Legs tucked in in the
25:54 true hips. Take the position in one
26:02 minute. Bounce. One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
26:07 Spine tall. One 2 three four five six
26:10 seven eight nine 20. At the true hips
26:16 bending. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30. Legs in.
26:20 I'll switch the angle for you. 1 2 3 4 5
26:25 6 7 8 9 40. Well planted. Not heels off.
26:31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50. Movement is coming
26:35 from the upper leg up and down. 1 2 3 4
26:42 5 6 7 8 9 30. Done. Rest. Oh. Oh, that's
26:44 nice. I would love to continue, but
26:46 sadly I can barely feel my legs at this
26:48 moment. So, I think that's enough for
26:50 today, guys. Go and do your day. Uh, you
26:52 can do the stretching we did at the very
26:56 beginning uh just to regain the control
26:57 of your legs. Otherwise, I'll see you in
26:59 my next video. Bye-bye. Trainer Maxim