Knees: Align Your Stride

Knees: Align Your Stride

Knees are particularly susceptible to wear and tear because they’re inherently unstable. Ultimately the health of your knees depends largely on good joint alignment and balanced strength and flexibility in your hips.

Use these videos to align your stride, and stabilize and protect your knees.

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Knees: Align Your Stride
  • A4Y Practice Plan

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    This 1-month practice plan will help you get real — more aware and actionable — about how you will use yoga to move towards your goals:

    • Print or fill it out digitally. 
    • Start each week by naming your goals: Identify the physical or mental Reset you need most and make a plan. 
    • Review what w...

  • How's your form?

    Exclusive routine from HIT RESET: Revolutionary Yoga for Athletes!
    Knees are particularly susceptible to wear and tear because they're inherently unstable. Use this self-test from HIT RESET to assess and correct your knee alignment, and learn more in the Save Your Knees chapter of HIT RESET.
    - Fo...

  • Align Your Stride

    Get ready to run! Use this quick pre-workout routine to warm up your breath and key muscles, create fluidity through your hamstrings and hips, and align your stride for the miles ahead.
    - Focus: warm up
    - Key muscles: hamstrings, hips
    - When: pre-run

  • Pre-Run Warm Up with Alysia Montaño

    Get ready to run! Join Olympian Alysia Montaño at one of her local training spots for a quick pre-workout routine to warm up your breath and key muscles, create fluidity through your hamstrings and hips, and align your stride for the miles ahead.
    - Focus: warm up
    - Key muscles: hamstrings, hips
    -...

  • Lily Partridge's Lower Leg + Hip Warm Up

    Pre-run warm up, sorted. Join professional British marathoner Lily Partridge for her Lower Leg + Hip Warm Up — a routine designed with and for Lily to activate your lower legs and glutes, loosen up your hips, and ease any overnight stiffness. You'll wake up your key running muscles and movement p...

  • Running Efficiency Boost

    Use this routine to strengthen your glutes and core, increase hip mobility, improve arm swing, and optimize your form for the miles ahead.
    - Focus: strength, performance
    - Key muscles: glutes, hips, core, back, shoulders
    - When: pre-run or cross-training
    - Suggested props: strap/belt/tie, 2 block...

  • Hip Strength + Stability

    15 minutes to stronger hips! Use this routine to strengthen the smaller, intrinsic (supporting) muscles of your hips, improving your stability to keep you moving forward with power and avoiding imbalance and injury.
    - Focus: hip strength + stability
    - Key muscles: hips, glutes
    - When: pre-workout...

  • How To Activate Your Glutes

    A few minutes spent activating and strengthening your glutes will add power to your stride and any workout. Use this routine to wake up and strengthen your butt!
    - Focus: strength, performance
    - Key muscles: glutes
    - When: pre-workout or cross-training

  • Booty Lock Mitigation

    Booty lock. It's pretty self-explanatory, right? If you never stretch your hips, you're probably familiar with this super stiff, uncomfortable feeling in your hips and glutes. The remedy? Use this routine to ease stiffness and maintain optimal range of motion.
    - Focus: hip flexibility
    - Key muscl...

  • Hip Mobility Maintenance

    When it comes to stretching your hips, not everything has to be a "stretch." Simple mobility work can be just as effective for easing stiff muscles and maintaining optimal hip range of motion. Use this routine to keep your hips fluid and mobile.
    - Focus: hip flexibility
    - Key muscles: hips, glute...

  • Comprehensive Hip + Hamstring Reset

    Use this comprehensive recovery routine for your hips and hamstrings to re-lengthen stiff hamstrings and restore hip range of motion. Enjoy the added bonus of easing low back pain and discomfort along the way. Includes Legs up the Wall and plenty of time for what's needed most post-workout: rest....