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A 25-minute full-body routine to prep your body for lifting, carrying, and lots of bending during a move.
Intermediate Move House Routine
A 25-minute full-body routine to prep your body for lifting, carrying, and lots of bending during a move.
Warm-Up
Loosen the spine/hips and wake up glutes and legs before lifting and carrying. Mobility and activation focus.
How to
A gentle spine mobility move that alternates rounding and arching your back on hands and knees.
- Start on hands and knees with wrists under shoulders and knees under hips.
- Inhale and drop your belly as you lift your chest and tailbone.
- Exhale and round your back, tucking your chin and tailbone.
- Move slowly between both positions with your breath.
- Move one vertebra at a time.
- Keep your shoulders away from your ears.
- Forcing your neck up or down.
- Rushing through the movement.
How to
A deep lunge stretch with rotation that opens your hips, groin, and upper back.
- Start in a high plank with hands under your shoulders.
- Step your right foot outside your right hand.
- Sink your hips and hold while breathing slowly.
- Rotate your chest right and reach your right arm up.
- Return to plank, then repeat on the left. Alternate sides.
- Keep your front foot flat
- Reach long through your top hand
- Letting your front knee cave inward
- Rushing the hold or holding your breath
How to
A floor hip lift that trains your glutes and hamstrings with both feet planted.
- Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat, hip-width apart.
- Brace your core and press your arms lightly into the floor.
- Drive through your heels and lift your hips until your body forms a straight line.
- Squeeze your glutes at the top, then lower with control.
- Repeat for your reps.
- Keep your ribs down
- Drive through your heels
- Arching your lower back at the top
- Pushing through your toes
Main Work
Build strength-endurance for repeated squatting, hinging, carrying, and reaching. Lift and carry circuit.
How to
A bodyweight lower-body move that trains your quads, glutes, and hips.
- Stand with feet about shoulder-width apart and toes slightly out.
- Brace your core and keep your chest tall.
- Bend your knees and hips to lower into a squat.
- Push through your feet to stand back up.
- Keep your knees tracking over your toes
- Keep your chest up
- Letting your knees cave in
- Rounding your back as you lower
How to
A standing hip hinge that trains your glutes and hamstrings and builds the pattern for deadlifts.
- Stand with feet hip-width apart and knees slightly bent.
- Brace your core and keep your chest open.
- Push your hips back as your torso tips forward.
- Lower until you feel your hamstrings, keeping your back flat.
- Drive your hips forward to stand tall again.
- Move from your hips, not your waist.
- Keep your back long.
- Squatting instead of hinging your hips back.
- Rounding your back as you lower.
How to
A backward-stepping lunge that trains your quads, glutes, and balance.
- Stand tall with your feet hip-width apart.
- Step one foot back and lower until both knees bend.
- Push through your front foot to stand back up.
- Finish your reps, then switch legs.
- Keep your chest tall.
- Track your front knee over your toes.
- Letting your front knee cave inward.
- Pushing off the back foot to stand.
How to
A plank variation where you tap each shoulder in turn to train your core, shoulders, and balance.
- Start in a high plank with hands under shoulders and feet set wide.
- Brace your core and keep your body in a straight line.
- Lift one hand and tap the opposite shoulder.
- Place it back down, then alternate sides each rep.
- Keep your hips still
- Press the floor away
- Rocking your hips side to side
- Letting your lower back sag
How to
A two-handed lift from the floor that trains your legs, hips, back, and grip.
- Stand close to the box with your feet about hip-width apart.
- Hinge and bend your knees, then grip both sides of the box.
- Brace your core and keep the box close to your body.
- Push through your feet and stand tall with the box.
- Lower it back down with control by bending your hips and knees.
- Keep the box close
- Stand tall at the top
- Rounding your back as you lift
- Letting the box drift away from you
How to
A one-arm loaded carry that trains grip, core, and posture while you walk.
- Hold a weight at one side with your arm straight.
- Stand tall with ribs down and shoulders level.
- Walk forward with slow, controlled steps.
- Keep the weight off your thigh as you move.
- Finish the distance or time, then switch sides.
- Stay tall and level
- Brace like you expect a bump
- Leaning away from the weight
- Letting the weight swing or rest on your leg
How to
A simple standing reach that moves your shoulders and upper back while you extend overhead.
- Stand tall with your feet about hip-width apart.
- Reach both arms overhead, palms facing in.
- Lift through your chest without leaning back.
- Lower your arms with control and repeat.
- Keep your ribs down
- Reach long through your fingertips
- Arching your lower back
- Shrugging your shoulders up to your ears
Cool-Down
Bring your breathing down and reduce stiffness in hips and hamstrings. Downshift and stretch focus.
How to
A kneeling rest pose that gently stretches your back, hips, and shoulders.
- Kneel on the floor with your big toes together and knees apart.
- Sit your hips back toward your heels.
- Fold forward and reach your arms in front of you.
- Rest your forehead down and let your chest sink between your thighs.
- Hold the position and breathe slowly.
- Relax your shoulders
- Breathe into your back
- Forcing your hips down
- Holding your breath
How to
A held stretch for the back of your thigh that targets your hamstrings.
- Sit tall with your target leg straight and toes up.
- Hinge at your hips and reach toward your foot.
- Stop when you feel a gentle stretch behind your thigh.
- Hold the stretch and breathe slowly.
- Release slowly, then switch sides if stretching one leg.
- Keep your back long.
- Hinge from your hips.
- Rounding your back to reach farther.
- Bouncing in the stretch.
Loaded Patterns Mirror Real Moving Tasks
The hip hinge and box lift directly train the posterior chain—glutes, hamstrings, and erectors—in the exact pattern you'll repeat dozens of times lifting boxes off the floor. Suitcase carry loads the lateral core unilaterally, mimicking the asymmetrical stress of hauling furniture and bags on one side.
Moving Day Is Metabolic and Mechanical
A house move demands sustained low-to-moderate output for hours, with repeated spinal flexion, loaded carries, and overhead reaching—a combination that taxes both aerobic endurance and connective tissue simultaneously. The hips and lumbar spine are the first to fatigue and the first to get injured when unprepared.
Activation Before Load Protects the Spine
Cat-cow and glute bridges fire up spinal segmentation and gluteal recruitment before any loaded movement appears, ensuring your lumbar extensors aren't compensating for inactive glutes during box lifts. To personalize, add a second round of glute bridges if you sit at a desk most days—sedentary hips need extra priming.