Lateral hip pain is more than a nuisance, it can stop you from walking comfortably, sleeping well, or doing everyday things. This pain is often caused by weakness or strain in the muscles around your hip joint, especially the gluteus medius and minimus. What makes it worse? Sitting too long, sudden changes in activity (like jumping into a new workout plan), or even how you stand. Favoring one side of your body puts uneven stress on your hips. Over time, that leads to pain and breakdown of soft t

Building hip strength is one of the best ways to protect your joints, improve movement, and reduce hip pain. In this video, I’ll show you simple hip strengthening exercises with both beginner and advanced progressions, so you can start at your own level and gradually build up. ✅ Perfect if you’re recovering from hip pain, hip impingement, hip replacement, or simply want to future-proof your hips ✅ Beginner-friendly options to get you started safely ✅ Advanced progressions to keep challenging you

If your lateral hip (deep hip external rotators) are tight, I highly recommend strengthening your adductors Your hips should to be balanced so if one side of your hip is weaker or tight, it throws your biomechanics and gait off Try these exercises to strengthen your adductors: 1. side plank with adductor 2. Glute and adductor iso 3. Squat with adductor squeeze Yes the outside of your hip like your glute med is important to strengthen but we can’t forget about the adductors For strong adductors g