The Hips – Godfather of Function
When it comes to our Balance, Flexibility, Pain, Posture, Performance (all the things we collectively call in The Ranks, “Muscular Youth”) THE HIPS are like The Godfather….
The Hip Joint is Our Body’s Region of DYNAMIC WEIGHT SUPPORT, and in terms of how we move and feel, The Hips Affect Everything!!!
The Hip is the location of contact between a large ball-like protrusion at the top of our thigh bone (the femoral head) and a boney socket formed by the fusion of three bones which form the pelvis (the acetabulum)
“Never Takes Sides Against The Hips”
- As a Ball and Socket Joint that is also Load Bearing, Free Hips Maneuver Us Forward, Backward and Around (even with feet planted) so neck, shoulder, elbow, etc. never have to overreach for work
“Look What They did to My Hips”
- Long Stretches of Sitting in particular get the Hips stuck in a flexed position (See PowerWire #’s 23,9,31) Robbing Precious Range of Motion
“I didn’t know, until this day, it was THE HIPS all along”
- Hindered Neck Range of Motion and Shoulder Range of Motion materialize because the Hips Freeze First!
“Leave the Pain. Take RanksAcademy.”
- In RanksAcademy’s “Older Athlete Flexibility Workshop” and this Fall’s “Posture and Balance Fest” we EMPHASIZE HIP WORK and instruct the crucial techniques of “Resisted Extension Drills” for the Hips to restore Hip Range of Motion, returning Function all over the Body!!
IT’S AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE!!!
