Fitness isn't just about throwing weights around and executing a ton of pull ups. Sometimes it's a lot less sexy and instead of wrecking shop at the gym every day you spend your time shoving a ball into your body to improve your quality of life and your positioning in the gym.

One of the most commonly messed up spots on most of our bodies are our hips. If we don't spend all our time at the office sitting, we spend a lot of our time sitting in traffic or sitting at home and we've gotta start undoing some of that damage to our hips.



If you regularly execute this series of movements, your newly loosened hips will make a multitude of movements easier in the gym: squatting, setting your back for pulls, even keeping your midline in the proper position through any dynamic movements.

If you're looking for even more to add onto your mobility practice, check out this series on the shoulders:



Like our hips, our shoulders are victims of our modern lifestyles. Constantly hunched over phones and keyboards and rarely working them through full range of motion puts our shoulders in a uniquely limited spot.

By opening up the pecs and lats, we're helping improve our overhead position in every from presses to snatches to handstands.

Mobility work isn't the sexiest process out there, but whatever boredom occurs while you're actually working on it is more than negated by the usefulness of the end result.