The Fitness Lady

If you feel unstable or weak in your hips, try this daily exercise...

It strengthens both hips at the same time, but in two very different ways.

One hip has to stabilise and support your body weight while the other works through its full range, strengthening the hip flexors, inner thigh, glute med and glute max.

This replicates what our hips need to do when we walk... one side stabilises us while the other moves the leg.

Building strength this way can improve hip mobility, balance and stability and give you more control with every step.

Knee pain or weakness? Avoiding load could be making it weaker.

When we have a problem with one knee, we naturally start taking weight away from it. But over time, that can reduce the strength of the muscles that help support and stabilise the knee.

This simple exercise starts to gradually challenge that load again, strengthening around the knee while also working the foot, ankle and hip all important for controlling and supporting the leg when we walk.

This is the third exercise in my knee support videos this week ... so have a scroll back at the previous two if you missed them

Knee friendly exercise Part 2

If you experience pain below or around your knee when you’re walking, it could be because you’ve lost some of the movement and strength that helps support the knee with every step.

This simple exercise works on restoring that movement while strengthening the muscles that help control and support it.

Knee pain when you walk?

If your knee is missing these two small movements, it can create extra strain through the joint with every step, leading to pain, stiffness and discomfort.

This simple exercise helps get that movement back.

This is part one of three. Check back tomorrow for part two when we start strengthening the structure that supports the knee.

If you’re starting to shuffle when you walk, this could be why…

We often think about lifting our feet, but every step also requires enough strength to hike the hip and help clear the leg from the ground.

If that movement has become weak, your steps can become shorter and your feet may start to shuffle.

Try this simple exercise to strengthen it.

If your balance isn’t as good as it used to be, simply standing still won’t improve it.

Your balance needs to be challenged to get better. These three simple progressions test your stability and teach your body to react when you start to wobble.

How far can you progress while staying in control?