The clamshell exercise is a great exercise that helps to strengthen the glutes and improve mobility of the the hips. Clamshells can also help with recovery from knee or low back injury. A few pointers to remember while performing clamshells to ensure you are doing them properly: - Keep knees and feet together while lying on your side. - Have your head supported to keep your spine neutral (a.k.a. good posture positioning) - Knees, hips and shoulder should form a straight line. - Open your knees b

🤔Did you know there is a seated variation of the clamshell exercise? The clamshell exercise is a great exercise that helps to strengthen the glutes and improve mobility of the the hips. Clamshells can also help with recovery from knee or low back injury. Since clamshells are a low-impact exercise that doesn’t require extensive flexibility or strength (yet still very effective) they are a great exercise for beginners looking to tone their core muscles, glutes, and other muscles of your lower bod

We had someone reach out about how to perform a clam or clamshell exercise so here you go!! 🎉 Truthfully, we don't prescribe or perform this exercise very often at OPAL because it's often performed incorrectly and there are other exercises we like better for targeting glute medius. That being said, to perform a clamshell correctly you have to master moving the hip without moving the low back (aka Movement Principle #4) and we are all about that. To perform a clamshell, lay on your side with you