Hip Exercise - Standing Hip Extension

Commonly Used For: Hip pain, knee pain and generalized leg weakness.

Video Transcription: This is a standing hip extension exercise which is a low level way to strengthen your glutes. What you are going to do is you want to find something to hold on to just for balance, so either a chair, counter top, anything sturdy. You are going to face that surface, tighten your stomach muscles and then slowly extend your leg back behind you. You want to make sure that you are not extending so far that you let you lower back arch. You want to keep that nice and tucked under and it is just a small arc of movement and you should feel it right here, right in your glutes. That is your standing hip extension exercise.