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Stretch It: Hip Flexor Lunge
You know I am a big advocate of stretching, even before I learned that it can give you strength too. I thought I would show you all one of my favorite stretches for the hip flexors.
The hip flexors are the four muscles that attach to the front of the pelvis that bring your thigh bone (femur) up toward your torso.
Exercise Video: Hip Flexor Stretch with Foam Roller
Do you run? Do you sit? Do you bike?
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Low Back Pain? Try Stretching Your Hip Flexors
After doing a sprint interval workout, my running buddy complained that sprinting often made her low back feel tight. I had a notion that her psoas might be tight. This muscle is a major hip flexor and it attaches to the low spinal vertebrae.
Wear Heels? Stretch These Muscles
We all know that high heeled shoes are pretty, and pretty bad for your body. Yet, we all end up wearing them sometime or another - a big meeting, a wedding, or almost everyday.
Basically the height of the heel pushes the weight of the body forward which interferes with your balance.
DVD Review: Yoga Link — Core Integration
Looking for some new moves to tone your core muscles? The DVD Core Integration ($19.95) is designed to strengthen you from the inside out. The exercises are meant to not only target your abdominal muscles, but they'll also strengthen weak muscle tissue, awaken sluggish organs, stretch scar tissue, and cultivate vibrancy in your nervous system.
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