The hips are your body’s "grand central station." These mobility exercises and stretches will keep them healthy.

The hip flexor exercises rounded up here are the ones ... “During a lunge, the back leg goes into a hip extension and stretches the quads and hip flexors,” Dr. Fata-Chan says.

Conclusions: Uniplanar knee extension exercises may be more appropriate than combining isometric knee extension exercises with hip adduction or abduction when eliciting maximal VMO and VL contractions ...