Hips: How to Integrate Joint Specific Mobility Training Into Your Program

A simplified program outline for Hip Mobility Training

One of the most common statements I hear from people about Mobility Training is: “I don’t have time”. The thing is that time is about priorities. What are you priorities with training in general?

When it comes to mobility work, people often throw in some stretches before or after workouts. We just do some haphazard movements we saw someone on Instagram say would “fix” your (insert random ailment here) __________.

Time is all we have and the thing is we often wait until we are injured to give more time to our “needs”. We do this because we don’t want to take too much time away from our “wants”.

What if I told you that if you spent more time on your needs in the first place, you could mitigate setbacks.

We wait until we injure our Shoulder for example and then start doing rotational work. Why didn’t we do rotational work as a through-line of our training? If it’s rotation that we now have to repair and strengthen, why not retrofit beforehand?

The same goes for your Hips and other joints. We wait until there’s a problem and then we scramble to try and fix it.

Why don’t we bias the function of the things we need (our joints) to accomplish the tasks (Squats, Presses, Sports). The better our joints behave, the greater the potential outcomes in our activities.

So the way I look at my training sessions is through the lens of desired outcomes for my joints. I prioritize rotational work before moving to linear work. I prioritize connective tissue before muscle tissue. I prioritize internal stuff (joint specific) before external training (load bearing traditional exercises).

Check out this simple outline including videos: