Exercise · Hips

Hip hinge drill

You push your hips backward and let your chest fold forward, keeping the spine long — the movement you should make every time you pick something up. Momentum's system is unusually pointed about this one: low back pain's movement failure is hip hinge plus core bracing failure, and its description of the problem is excessive lumbar motion instead of hip motion. This drill is the re-teach step of the low back flow, the fourth of five, deliberately placed after the hip flexors and QL have been released and the glutes and core have been woken up — because a hinge taught onto a stiff, unbraced body just rehearses the old pattern.