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How to Do Hip Circles (prone)

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the hip circles (prone).

How to do it

1. Position yourself on your hands and knees on the ground. Maintaining good posture, raise one bent knee off of the ground. This will be your starting position.
2. Keeping the knee in a bent position, rotate the femur in an arc, attempting to make a big circle with your knee.
3. Perform this slowly for a number of repetitions, and repeat on the other side.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

Workouts with this exercise

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Gear for this exercise

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Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.