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06/09/2026

Knee pain, hip pain or back pain? You may need to incorporate a hip dominant squat pattern.

The major focus here is hip hinging.

🔺Keeping a vertical shin and driving into extension.
🔺Hands are creating a counter balance.
🔺Push your knees out against the band, and keep them in line with your toes.

If you want a clear pathway for hip assessment and exercise prescription, comment the word “HIPFUNCTION” on this reel and we’ll send a 🆓 guide on how to assess and start addressing weaknesses at the hips 📝

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03/09/2026

📝 Comment the word “hipfunction” on this post to be sent our guide on appropriate warm ups for certain presentations.

Our go to warm up for leg days. Muscle activation is an important part of your daily routine. Over time, the body develops compensatory patterns and weaknesses which can be problematic for some.

For specific problems, a specific sequence is required. Here’s a great sequence that can be used for a warm up for your lower body sessions.

Pick one from each option.

1️⃣ Banded crab walks x 20
2️⃣ Lock clam on a bench/ Lock clam on the floor x 25
3️⃣ Front plank from knees/ front plank on toes x 30
4️⃣ Side plank with abduction from knee or toes x 10
5️⃣ Shoulder taps from knees or toes x 20
6️⃣ Banded glute bridge/ banded counterbalance squats x 10

03/09/2026

📕 If you want a clear pathway for hip assessment and exercise prescription, comment the word “HIPFUNCTION” on this reel and we’ll send a 🆓 guide on how to assess and start addressing weaknesses at the hips 📝

The Lock Clam, a refined glute activation drill that removes common dysfunctions such as lower back pain and knee pain👇🏼 cues
🔹 Lie with your bottom leg straight.
🔹 Hook your top foot behind your calf.
🔹 Roll your top hip forward.
🔹 Top hand in front for balance.
🔹 Small controlled lift of the top knee.

Why this beats the traditional clam:
🔹 Eliminates hip flexion, reducing TFL dominance.
🔹 Uses gravity to bias external rotation and abduction under load.
🔹 Limits pelvic rotation so you isolate glute med and minimus.

📝 Why glute work matters:
Tightness through the front of the hips often reflects underactive glutes.
When glutes aren’t doing their job, the body compensates with the hip flexors and lower back during movement, especially during hip extension. This can lead to anterior hip tightness and low back pain.

Activating the glutes restores proper load-sharing through the pelvis and spine, improving movement quality and reducing pain.

Use this in your warm-up before training, posing for body building or your rehab.

01/09/2026

Think you have SIJ pain? You might not 👀
Pain around the SIJ can actually be referred from several different structures, including the discs, facet joints and surrounding tissues.

That’s why getting the diagnosis right comes first.

For female athletes, symptoms can also fluctuate across the menstrual cycle, and in true SIJ presentations, these changes can sometimes be predictable.

When symptoms are aggravated, adjusting your training can help.

Instead of exercises that create more pelvic movement, like bulgarian split squats or single-leg leg press, temporarily using bilateral movements such as squats can make loading more manageable.

It’s not about avoiding single-leg exercises forever.

It’s about knowing when to modify them 💪🏽
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31/08/2026

SACROILIAC JOINT STABILITY

This is an alternative protocol for people who may have some aggravation with hip extension limits.

The lumbar spine, sacroiliac joints and hips do not function in separate compartments.

There is integration of these three areas to stability progressions.

Bilateral glute work with the band in supine that, avoids hip extension, is a great way to help SIJ to stabilise.

Often the lumbar spine will try to “help” limited hip extension by extending itself in compensation.

Many people with SIJ aggravation can be triggered by the lumbar spine compensation as another compounding issue.

Here we combine glute, ab and Multifidus work that patients really can feel the “tightness” of their core and a reduction of pain.

This can be done prior to training.

With SIJ aggravation periods we avoid unilateral work and stick with bilateral to avoid shearing forces on the SIJ.

Everything is a tool. So is this series of movements. Another tool for your toolkit.

Context always.

Right series for the right person at the right time for the right reason.

📝 Comment the word “hipfunction” on this reel to be sent our guide on testing and treating the hip.

28/08/2026

Stop stretching your Piriformis. It’s about as sensible as stretching your Rotator Cuff.

When you have a tightness you need to identify the reason it is tight.

You don’t just “stretch it”

Often the tightness is providing stability.

Get rid of the stability, by stretching, and you will be worse off.

Find the reason behind “piriformis tightness”.

The most common cause is weakness of the gluteal complex into abduction and external rotation as the hip extends.

You cannot isolate a Glute muscle, such as Glute max from glute med.

The human body works in synergy, that’s why many muscles involve in similar movements.

📝 Comment the word “hipfunction” on this reel to be sent our guide on testing and treating the hip.

25/08/2026

We can help to stabilise the sacroiliac joint by gluteal, abdominal and lat work.

Julie demonstrates an effective exercise as part of her Sacroiliac joint stability protocols.

Bilateral gluteal work is better tolerated than unilateral glute work in early stage rehab.

Here Julie uses the band to abduct and externally rotate against (this also is a function of glute max.).

Glute max inhibition has been noted with symptomatic sacroiliac joint conditions. This is a great exercise to begin to involve glute max without hip extension.

The abdominals, especially transverse abdominis which can produce force closure at the p***c symphysis.

Putting these two together is a great stabiliser exercise.

There are more exercises that we use naturally, this is one of the most effective we have used clinically.

If you want a clear pathway for SIJ and hip pain cases, comment the word “HIPFUNCTION” on this reel and we’ll send a 🆓 guide on how to assess and start addressing weaknesses at the hips 📝

24/08/2026

The first part in management of Sacroiliac joint problems is formulating a correct diagnosis.

The area over the SIJ is the most common referral point for pretty much everything including lower back from disc injury, facet joint pain and true sacroiliac pain.

Often we find in female athletes that there are times of being more painful, or aggravated, during the menstrual cycle.

In true SIJ problems this can be anticipated.

Programming to avoid single leg work, such as Bulgarian split squats and single leg leg press, and instead programming bilateral movements such as squat variations with even feet can enable you to manage the loading.

The single worst exercise for aggravated SIJ will be loaded Bulgarian split squats. This is due to the torsion of the pelvis in the movement, like wringing out a towel 😣 

For some in the right context, this is completely fine to perform. But be mindful that it could be the culprit of your pain.
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If you want a clearer clinic-to-gym path for SIJ and hip pain cases, comment the word “HIPFUNCTION” on this reel and we’ll send a 🆓 guide on how to assess and start addressing weaknesses at the hips 📝

23/08/2026

The hip scour test is a simple test used to determine a person’s hip socket potential and indication of any pathologies or aggravations of the hip joint.

It is great to identify potential discomfort of the hip, the direction it likes to move and the patient’s squat depth/ position.

Here, we apply the Lock Clam to help address Louis’ hip limitations.

The Lock clam teaches abductions and external rotation without any other muscles compensating. 

Comment or DM the word “HIPFUNCTION” and we’ll send a 🆓 guide on how to assess and start addressing weaknesses at the hips 📝

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