Part 3/3: Advanced Cycling Hip Exercise

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Cycling Hip Exercise Part 3/3

This is part 3 of 3 in our series of cycling hip exercise s.  We're going to further challenge the hip muscles -- in the last exercise we just asked the muscle to work harder, now we're going to ask it to work smarter as well.This exercise relies heavily on balance and the control of fine movements at the hip while we're trying to exert coarse or gross movement (the lunge) at the hip.  Just as you saw in the Pro-Tip in Part 2, working into more hip flexion and having to control the hip and knee movement is key to controlling things throughout the entire pedal stroke -- even at the top of the stroke when we're in the most hip flexion.  That's where this exercise shines as it's very easy to increase the amount of hip flexion simply by moving lower in the lunge position.  In this way the exercise can be tailored to your particular level of proficiency by beginning with shallow lunges and working to deeper ones.Remember it can always be helpful to occasionally go backwards and refresh with the simpler exercises in Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 can act as a neurological "do over" because it does have a tremendous component in the central nervous system - I always say that this type of exercises is more about establishing the pathway to the muscle, so that further strength gains are possible.Part 2, the resisted crab walk, begins the  transition to a more vigorous muscle contraction, while at the same time introducing the concept of controlling the hip in greater degrees of hip flexion.As always, comment below if you have questions or comments or if you have improvements or recommendations on these exercises.