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5 Underrated Exercises That Will Transform Your Running Form
Here’s how to stabilize your hips & lower back like never before!
Big compound lifts like squats and deadlifts may look impressive, but the subtle exercises often make all the difference for your running. While the running gait may look pretty straightforward, your body must do a ton of work to coordinate movements between joints and stabilize your whole frame. Consequently, we must pay great attention to detail with how we’re training these joints and tissues outside of the context of our runs. One area that we often fall short in is the glute medius.
The glute medius is the prime mover of abduction at the hip joint. It also assists in flexion and medial rotation of the hip, along with abduction and lateral rotation. It stabilizes your pelvis and supports the spine on every foot strike or any time you’re on one leg. This is an incredibly important role for a muscle that rarely gets mentioned. If you’re not actively developing it, your lower body may pay the price later on down the road so it’s time to turn this ship around!
To help you further enhance your running gait health, I want to introduce 5 movements that are probably going under your radar due to their lack of popularity and misunderstanding around the importance of glute medius training…
