ANyone have any good hip flexor stretches to share, working on this area currently getting bored of the 2 i know. RR
What are the two you do?
The only two of which I’m aware are the lunge-type stretch (and variations) and Poliquin’s incline bench one.
The best choice depends on what muscle you want to stretch
Not sure what context/setting you want these stretches for, but I was recently shown one that I can use at work. As a software guy, I sit at a desk most of the day. This one can be done sitting in the chair.
-place one leg across the other, like you are going to cross your legs. The legs should be perpendicular (outside of foot/ankle touches top of other knee).
-sit up straight in your chair, with a small arch in the lower back.
-grab your foot that is resting on your knee, and slowly pull it up towards you a bit
-lean forward slightly, like you?re doing a good morning
You should feel the stretch right through your hip flexor.
This is one of Pavel’s hip flexor stretches.
- take your shoes off.
2)lie on the ground like you are going to do crunches.
3)put your shoes between you knees and squeeze them fairly hard.
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push your feet hard into the deck and raise your pelvis as high as you can. hold for 3-5 seconds
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repeat.
See Alessi’s pre-exhaust giant set in the new paper issue of t-mag. Good stuff.
A good one from mel siff
Lounge with a light bar overhead. realy streches those flexors.
Another though sucker is the knee split - try a front split on your knees.
also, there is the dynamic hip flexor stretch - fornt lounges and switch back and forth.
BTW that chair strtech will stretch just the insertion of the psoas to the lubar fascia, and possibly the IT band more.