What Are The Hip Flexors?
Located between your upper body, and your lower body is your pelvis, it is here you will find your hip flexors, a group of muscles that run through your pelvis attached in and around your hips.
Together they assist you to walk, kick, bend, swivel your hips and stabilize your spine.
The main muscle sitting within the well of your hip and lower spine is the psoas (pronounced so-az) muscle.The psoas is the only muscle in the human body connecting the upper body to the lower body.
The function of the psoas muscle is to create a neutral pelvic alignment, stabilise your hips, support your lower spine, support your abdomen, support the organs in the pelvic and abdominal cavity and to enable mobility and core strength.
The muscle attaches to the vertebrae of the lower spine, moves through the pelvis and connects to a tendon at the top of the femur. It also attaches to the diaphragm, so it’s connected to your breathing, and upon it sits all the major organs.
When the psoas functions well, it has the power to:
- Help you achieve peak performance.
- Rapidly drop ugly body fat that stubbornly clings to your body.
- Train harder, heavier and gain strength faster than you thought possible.
- Hit your peak of sexual health.
- Flood your mind and body with renewed energy and vigor.
Through everyday activity it is very common for your hip flexors to become tight, which can hinder movement and cause severe pain.
Put simply, this muscle is the core of activity in your body. So, when it's out of balance or if the psoas tightens, there are serious consequences which flow throughout the body.
What Causes Hip Tightness?
The biggest cause of hip tightness is sitting for too long, however it can effect athletes too.
Runners for example use their hip flexors, to lift the leg up with each stride. The repetitive shortening of the muscle isn’t compensated by a lengthening movement. This very action can cause runners to end up with tight hip flexors.
The Warning Signs You Have Tight Hip Flexors
The obvious sign is that these muscles just feel tight. But there are other signs too. Tight hip flexor muscles can impact several other areas of your body, so you might have:
- Tightness or an ache in your lower back.
- Poor posture and difficulty standing up straight.
- Neck tightness and pain.
- Pain in the glutes.
Tight hip flexors affect nearly everyone, irrespective of age or activity and can affect your whole well-being too.
The shocking ways in which TIGHT HIPS ARE HOLDING YOU BACK...
Most people don't realize their pain or discomfort is related to tight hip flexors. It's this lack of understanding that can prevent getting to the root of the problem and the issues persists.
We're not simply talking a little bit of soreness, tight hip flexors can cause:
- Joint pain in your legs, lower back, or hips
- Discomfort when walking
- Hips locking up
- Dangerous posture
- Trouble sleeping
- Sluggishness all-day
- High anxiety
- Digestive problems
- Compromised Immune System
- Circulatory issues
- Loss of sexual performance
- Lack of Explosiveness in the gym or sports
If this sounds like you, you are not alone.
WHY "STATIC" STRETCHING ALONE ISN'T THE ANSWER
Static stretching can help relieve symptoms but it is not enough on its own to fix the problem and can actually make the problem worse.
That's because you need to attack the muscle from a variety of angles using a variety of exercise techniques in order to "free up" the muscle in the right way.
The truth is, you can learn to release your tight hip flexors on your own.
There are a number of specific movements beyond simple static stretching you can use to unlock and loosen your hips, legs, and back.
The Sequential Flow Method
Loosening your hip flexors can actually be easy with the Sequential Flow method, a program designed specifically to
open up the muscles in your hips in the right order.
The Sequential Flow method called Unlock Your Hip Flexors was created by exercise and injury expert Rick Kaselj. The program is composed of 10 carefully selected exercises, including PNF Stretching, Static Stretching, Dynamic Stretching, 3-Dimensional Core Stability Exercises, Mobility Exercises, Fascia Stretching and Muscle Activation.
Unlock Your Hip Flexors gives you a practical, easy-to-follow program you can use today for instantly releasing your hip flexors for more strength, better health, and all-day energy.
The power of Rick's method lies not only in the technique, but in the proper sequence. Done effectively, the sequential flow works with your body to activate its natural healing process, improve flexibility while adding strength and vitality.
This program includes an Instructional Video, Following Along Video and Manual with step-by-step instructions.
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