Sets: 2

Reps: 12 each side

• Lie on your side with your head supported. Bend the bottom knee for increased support.

• Straighten the top leg and flex the toes up towards you.

• Stack the pelvis and avoid letting it rotate through the exercise.

• Lift the top leg up feeling the glute medius (side glute) engage. Only lift high enough to feel the glute, not the low back. Avoid hiking your hip.

• Lower back down to starting position.

• Exhale: gently draw in core/PF as you lift the leg.

• Inhale: lower back down and relax core/PF.

• If you feel this in the front of your hip, try angling the leg just slightly back into extension to avoid compensation from the hip flexors.