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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do resistance band work 3 days a week. Some exercises are below. Most are 2 sets of 10 and if the are Single Leg (SL) then each leg is 2 sets per leg.

Banded Side Walks (10 steps each way twice)
Banded Monster Walks (10 steps, turn around, 10 steps back...twice)
Banded Marching in Place (2 x 20 total marches so it's 10 each side...twice)
Banded Marching Iso holds - Instead of marching, hold your thigh up parallel to the group for 10 seconds, then switch legs. Do 3 or 4 each leg.
Banded Clam shells and/or Clanks (Clamshells while in Side Plank position)
SL L-Sits (Sit on floor nice and tall. Legs straight out in front of you. Put something next to one of your ankles and raise your leg up and over that object and touch the floor on the other side of it. Repeat 10 times. Switch legs. Do each leg 10 times twice.)
Banded SL Side Leg Raisers
Banded Dead Bugs/Psoas Marches
Copenhagens
Glute Bridges (If double leg are too easy do SL) Get some glute and hip flexors with this exercise
Plank position, Bands around angles, SL Tap Outs (Get some core and hips with this one)

As the prior poster said, don't sit too long. Get up and walk around more. Also, take short walks before work, at lunch, and after work. Good luck.

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This is the answers. Strength through range of motion is almost always the answer. [/quote]

All of this. Also: single leg RDLs and hip CARS (forward and backwards).

And I do Barre 3 and vinyasa yoga.

The above has helped immensely. Stretching never, ever helped my painful hips or hip flexors -- always made it worse. Strength and mobility work does. I avoid holding the deep, deep stretches in yoga.[/quote]

I would add kickstand RDL, kettlebell swings (with good form, starting first with lower weight), and goblet squats as well. [/quote]

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