Cycling Range of Motion

A good flexibility activity for the lower body is a modified cycling motion. This exercise works both the hips and the knees, and you can do it in modified form while standing and holding on to a support.

Lying on your back, take one leg at a time through a cycling motion. Slide your foot along the ground toward your buttock, then raise your knee toward your chest, and finally extend your leg back out to the starting position (see figure 5.5). Repeat this sequence with the opposite leg.

Figure 5.5 Cycling range of motion.