As you know, I take pride in developing new, smarter and more effective exercises and training concepts. In this post, I’m going to show you one version of new hip mobility drills I’ve been using with great success!
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Actually, my fellow Strength Coach and Friend Kevin Neeld is going to show you the exercise. He is the one that shot the video and originally posted it on his site after visiting me here at Performance U.
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Kevin is a very smart guy who is willing to actually listen to what other coaches (like me) have to say. He has taught me some great as well, through our personal interactions and through his Hockey Training Blog which I check regularly.
Anyway, here’s what Kevin had to say about this new Hip Mobility exercise and his video demonstrating it.
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The Below is Taken from KevinNeeld.com
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A couple weeks ago I visited my friend and colleague Nick Tumminello at his facility in Baltimore.
Nick is a brilliant coach so I love stopping by his place to steal some good stuff from him.
While there, I saw him do a hip mobility exercise I had never done before. I started playing around with it this week and really love it. It’s a great way to mobilize the hip into adduction and abduction in a hip flexed position. This is one of those “must-includes” for hockey players and soccer players that tend to have a lot of hip problems.
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I wlll be stealing that one myself
Coach Nick,
Thank you for the new drill with video. Just wanted to know if you have the specfics on how exactly to perform this mobility exercise?
this looks good! i’ll add it into the routine, along with that one where you sit back onto the heel, and (keeping the hip down) lift up the extended leg. that burns like a mother and i feel like my hip is ready for (safe) hard core work afterwards.
thanks nick and keep up the good work!
Cool drill! I think it looks more controlled than a side to side leg swing as well.
Nick-I just wanted to let you and everyone else on the site know that I just put up a short post on how you’ve completely changed the way I write my training programs!
http://www.kevinneeld.com/2010/revolutionary-training-tip-from-nick-tumminello
Using the concept you introduced me to, I started pairing the hip mobility exercise in the video above with a lateral lunge/reverse crossover squat combo.
Keep up the great work!
-Kevin Neeld
Can you recommed any other beginner hip mobility moves to do alongside this one please? I tired to learn the roational lunge, but cannot master is so seek moves that can be done correctly someone has no access to a personal trainer. Thanks