Hips Width Quarter Turn
Another take on how to get your feet into hips' width alignment.
When we ask clients to stand in hip-width alignment during exercises, most people assume it means standing as wide as the outside of their legs. But in reality, the hip joints are narrower than that. And often, feet are turned out more than they should be, which can throw off alignment throughout the body.
To help with this, we teach a simple setup we call the pizza slice trick 🍕:
- Start with your feet completely together
- Quarter turn your toes outward
- Quarter turn your heels outward
This usually gives you about a fist to a fist-and-a-half of space between your big toes. It may feel surprisingly narrow at first, or even slightly pigeon-toed, but that’s actually the correct position for most bodies.
Using this method helps you find proper alignment without needing to overthink or check in the mirror. The more you practice it, the more natural it starts to feel.
✨ Try this before your daily routines or any movement session to set a better foundation for your posture and alignment.
Serving Colorado from our centrally located office in Westminster and seeing clients from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, Denver and Boulder, we can also help globally via WebCam such as Zoom or FaceTime.
Anu Lawrence owned Egoscue Method clinics for over a decade before moving to private practice in 2022 and is a certified master instructor in the Egoscue Method, having learned the craft from Pete Egoscue directly.
