5 Bed Exercises That Restore Hip Strength Faster Than Stretching After 60

Maintaining strong, healthy hips is essential for aging gracefully and leading a confident, active lifestyle. After all, your hips stabilize your pelvis and spine, helping to boost mobility so you can conquer daily tasks like climbing stairs with ease. If you don’t have extra time to carve out for gym time, don’t fret. We spoke with an expert who shares five simple bed exercises that can restore hip strength faster than stretching after 60.

“As we get older, we lose muscle mass, our muscles don’t fire as efficiently and all-important glutes, hip flexors and deep stabilizers of the hip don’t work as well as they used to,” explains Suzana De Pina, Clinical Exercise Physiologist at Papayya. “Their gait may be slower, strides shorter, and balance more precarious, raising the risk they will accidentally topple over. But few of us specifically target our hips and legs for strengthening, which means they commonly weaken with ag...