The hips are your body’s "grand central station." These mobility exercises and stretches will keep them healthy.
You don't need leg raises or heavy weights to strengthen your core and hips, just try the dragon flag calisthenics exercise.
Pause at the top before lowering the leg back down. Keep the entire movement slow and controlled, and aim for three sets of 10 leg lifts on each leg. To make the exercise harder, add a resistance ...
Writer Sarah Blakely gave them a go every day for a month and hasn’t looked back. Leg raises are the kind of exercise that PTs and pilates instructors love sticking in at the end of a workout.
Keeping the 90-degree bend in your right knee, slowly lift your leg straight back and up toward the ceiling. Your max height is right before your back starts to arch, or your hips begin to rotate.