Hip Muscles Exercise on the Kinesis System

Video Transcript

"WALLY REULE: Hi. My name is Wally Reule. I'm a personal trainer, owner of SedonaFit, and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. This is the delta station, the final station. This is for--primarily for floor exercises, for lower body. I'm going to do a few upper body exercises we can do. What we're going to actually start with what movement called hip abduction, which means moving out like this in both ways. Hip abduction is so important as we age, particularly, to help us keep our balance because as we're walking along, if we're going to tip over to the right, we just automatically do that. I'm exaggerating that, of course, but when we lose our ability to do that, we lose our confidence and our ability to walk. And that's what happens to many older people as they stop walking, they compensate fortified walking with wider stance and shuffling their feet, and then sometimes they sit down and never get up again. So it's very important to maintain these muscles, the hip abductors, which I'm going to demonstrate an exercise for that right now."