Bed Routine for Hip Strength After 65: 8 Minutes
Key Points:
- Strong hips are essential for balance, stability, and injury prevention, especially for adults over 65, and bed workouts can restore hip strength more effectively than traditional floor exercises.
- Bed routines offer low-load resistance with better alignment support, reducing balance challenges and joint compression, which facilitates safer and more consistent muscle engagement.
- Traditional floor workouts often pose barriers like pain, stiffness, and difficulty rising, leading to inconsistent practice, whereas bed exercises improve adherence by providing a supportive, controlled environment.
- An expert-recommended eight-minute bed routine includes exercises such as posterior pelvic tilts, pelvic floor hip adduction squeezes, modified bridges, side-lying clamshells, and hip windshield wipers to safely strengthen hip muscles daily.