{"id":169265,"date":"2025-09-30T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169265\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:22:19","slug":"i-tried-doing-hip-openers-every-day-and-was-surprised-by-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169265\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried doing hip openers every day and was surprised by the results"},"content":{"rendered":"

If, like me, you spend a lot of time sitting at your desk, you might suffer from tight hips, which can affect your posture, balance and even how well you squat or lunge.<\/p>\n

I love a fitness challenge, so I decided to see if I could counteract this damage by doing hip openers for 30 days, performing 10 repetitions per leg, between one and three times a day.<\/p>\n

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The results showed that it’s always worth investing some time in your mobility\u2014here’s what happened after I did the move for a month.<\/p>\n

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I slept better and felt less stressed<\/p>\n

When we\u2019re stressed, we can feel more tension and stiffness in certain muscles, like the psoas muscle<\/a> in the lower back.<\/p>\n

This discomfort in our muscles can make it harder to sleep, which has the knock-on effect of making us feel more stressed because we’ve not had a good night\u2019s rest.<\/p>\n

But I was pleasantly surprised when this simple mobility exercise helped reduce the tightness I\u2019d been feeling in my muscles, and as a result I slept better and felt calmer.<\/p>\n

My balance improved<\/p>\n

One of my goals this year is to improve my balance, and standing on one leg doing hip openers every day has really helped.<\/p>\n

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Exercises like single-leg deadlifts, lunges, and even basic movements like putting my shoes on while standing up all feel easier.<\/p>\n

My posture has also improved and I\u2019m more upright when sitting at my desk.<\/p>\n

Getting up from the floor feels easier<\/p>\n

When your hip flexors are stiff, it limits your range of motion, so standing up from the floor can feel challenging.<\/p>\n

This is because our tight hips pull the body forward, putting a strain on the back and making the move from sit to stand feel harder.<\/p>\n

After a month of daily hip openers, getting up from the floor was so much easier\u2014that\u2019s the main reason that I want to carry on doing this move regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If, like me, you spend a lot of time sitting at your desk, you might suffer from tight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-169265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}