What Does It Mean to Have Tight Hips?

Although the hip joint is confined to a finite range of motion it is capable of being resilient, responsive, and stable.

Looking after your hips joints with the same gym routine or exercises over time can become ineffective and a bit like Chinese water torture for your joints and soft tissues. Your nervous system and muscles will quickly learn the routine and will not continue to develop and respond. If you have ever been stuck and can’t seem to make any more progress with strength, endurance, or weight loss, you could think about mixing up your routine or starting something new like yoga.

What’s causing tight hips? It’s actually the muscles and fascia attached to your joints that restrict your movement. How do these muscles become tight? Very simply your body adapts to what you do most frequently and the one body position we all do with great frequency is sit.  In a nutshell, our over-use of the sitting posture shortens the muscles, turns off the powerful glutes (buttock muscles) and basically throws our hips and pelvis out of balance. The result is tight hips and lower back pain.