Clamshell Tutorial: The Best Flexible Hips Exercise for Strength and Stabilization

Want stronger hips? This is the best flexible hips exercise is gold for targeting one of the most important and under-utilized muscle groups in our lower body: the deep butt. These muscles (the obdurator internus and externus, the gemellus superior and inferior, the quadratus femoris, and the famous piriformis) are external rotators and are vital to stabilizing your pelvis for positions like middle splits and straddles, as well as for life. This tutorial can set you up for maximum success to optimize your clamshell experience and reconfigure the muscle balance of your hips. This is great if you care about flexibility poses like straddle and middle splits, but also if you care about having happy, healthy hips for every day life. They can also potentially improve lower back pain. Bonus! Want to learn more about how to do the splits? Check out our Splits Series Videos below: Other Straddle/Middle Splits Videos from FaB: Please follow my channel for all sort of flexibility, body mechanics, and contortion tips and tricks! 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Beginning on our side 08:20 Outro #buttexercises