Why Happier Hips start with how you move through life
If your hips often feel tight or stiff, you’re not alone.
Many people I work with notice that bending to tie a shoe lace, sitting cross-legged, or getting low to pick something up just doesn’t feel as easy as it used to. And while you might stretch, go for walks, and do classes at the gym, that nagging sense of restriction always seems to creep back.
Although you may think it, it’s not that it’s too late for your hips to move well again. In fact, far from it. Instead it’s about reaslising how modern life has quietly changed how we use them.
The quiet cost of convenience
We’ve built a world that’s wonderfully comfortable and efficient, but our hips are paying the price.
We sit to eat, work, drive, relax and scroll. Even when we stand or move, we tend to do so in the same narrow, repetitive ways. Over time, our bodies adapt to what we do most, and our hips become less available for the ranges we no longer use.
The result? They feel stiff, weak or awkward in certain positions. It’s not age or wear and tear alone, it’s simply a case of underuse in the ways that matter.
Why stretching alone isn’t enough
When our hips feel tight, our instinct is often to stretch. It can feel good in the moment, but the relief rarely lasts. That’s because flexibility isn’t the whole story; mobility depends on how we use the muscles and joints in daily life.
Our hips were designed to move in all directions: flexion, extension, rotation, abduction, adduction - the lot. They’re amazing! But most of us only move them through a small portion of those ranges, and more often than not in one predictable shape: seated.
When we start to include more variety; stepping wide, getting low, twisting, moving on the ground, we send a powerful message to the body: “I still need these movements.” And the body responds. It adapts towards ease and capability.
A different way to create change
This is what my Everyday Ease Method is all about - helping people bring movement variety back into the hours that shape them most: the everyday ones.
My teaching is never about finding extra time for workouts or complicated routines. It’s about using what you already do; sitting, standing, reaching - in slightly different ways so your hips get the stimulus they need to stay mobile and strong.
I’ve seen so many people who believed they’d “just got tight hips” start moving with more ease again once they changed how they moved through life.
Why your everyday movement matters more than you think
Most of your body’s adaptation happens in the twenty-odd hours of the day outside your exercise sessions. That’s when your joints and tissues are getting the most repeated messages about what you do, or don’t, ask of them.
So if you spend most of your time in shapes that keep the hips still, they get very good at being still. But when you start giving them little reminders sprinkled throughout the day; sitting differently, hinging from the hips, getting low occasionally, they respond. It doesn’t take hours. It takes awareness.
Start small and it adds up
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my own recovery and from coaching others, it’s that small, intentional movements done consistently have the biggest impact over time. You don’t need to overhaul your life or find extra hours in your day. You just need to start noticing when and how your hips move, and most importantly, when they don’t.
Next time you sit, stand, or pick something up, pause and feel where the movement is coming from. Is it your hips, or your spine doing the work for them? That moment of awareness is where change begins.
A little structure to guide you
If you’re curious about how to bring this to life, my new mini course, Happier Hips in 5 Steps, was designed to help you do exactly that.
Over 5 short, practical lessons, you’ll learn how to:
Move with more awareness
Add variety into everyday movements
Reclaim hip strength and mobility through daily life
Each step takes less than half an hour to learn and then the movements and minutes you choose to integrate the movement into your life. Everything can be done with the space and time you already have. It’s simple, realistic, and surprisingly effective.
You don’t need perfect technique or special equipment, just curiosity, and a willingness to try moving a little differently.
Because how you move through your day shapes how you feel, now and in the years to come. If you’re ready to rediscover what your hips can really do, you can start your journey here:
👉 Jump in to Happier Hips in 5 Steps
