Sentences with phrase «weak hip rotators»

Not exact matches

Strength training experts and triathlon coaches always seem to be highlighting the injury - preventive and performance importance of tending to small, supportive muscles that are notoriously weak in endurance athletes, such as the shoulder's rotator cuff, the outer butt's gluteus medius, the small scapula muscles along the shoulder blades, and the abdominal, hip and low back region, or «core» (15).

A weak piriformis (and other associated deep hip rotators) can contribute to chronic knee problems and instability in standing poses, but it is easy to strengthen with careful attention to alignment in those same standing poses.

Another common problem at the hip is weak hip abductors and external rotators.

This routine targets the three most commonly weak and damaged areas of the body — the rotator cuff in the shoulders, the hips, and core (including the lower back).

So kind of a more simplistic terms this would mean that you have a weak butt and you would want to actually strengthen your hip abductors like the gluteus medius and the gluteus minimus and you would actually also wan na strengthen your femurs» external rotators.

For example, if I'm looking at someone from the back and they're running and I'm seeing that the hip is excessively tilting from side to side meaning at mid-stance your hip just kinda collapses and drops toward one side when you're running and that's accompanied by something like a heel whip, that's a pretty good sign that it's an external rotator or that it's an abductor weakness issue vs. it being genetic because it actually shows that you have weak hips whereas if I see that foot kinda rotating out a little bit but the hips are staying relatively level while you're running, then usually it's just the case where you have that genetic kinda femoral anteversion and it's not really an issue.