10/14/2026
🏒 Hockey players, are your hips starting to LOCK UP?
This is the time of year when a lot of players start noticing it.
Your hips felt great during camp. You were moving well, skating smoothly, and everything felt the way it should.
But now the season is rolling.
More practices.
More games.
More skating volume.
More repeated stress on the same joints.
And suddenly, those hips that felt like butter a few weeks ago are starting to feel restricted.
Here’s why that matters ⬇️
Hockey isn’t played in perfectly controlled positions. You’re reacting to opponents, absorbing contact, changing direction, getting pushed into the boards, and constantly asking your body to adjust to unpredictable situations.
If your hips are already restricted, you’re going into those situations with fewer movement options available and that’s not where you want to be.
This is why restoring range of motion needs to be a priority.
Before you can build strength and capacity through a position, you need to have access to that position in the first place. That’s where your mobility and recovery work comes in.
The goal isn’t just to stretch your hips for 30 seconds and hope they loosen up. It’s to actively work on restoring the movement you’re losing throughout the season.
Access the range.
Learn to control it.
Then build the strength and capacity to use it.
Because having access to more range is only the beginning. Being able to control and produce force through that range is what makes it useful when you’re skating.
If your hips are already starting to lock up, the first step is getting them moving again.
👇🏼Comment UNLOCK and I’ll send you our FREE Unlock Your Hips in 20 Minutes workout—a full follow-along session straight from the Recovery Library inside our Hockey Mobility Membership.
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