Answer To Your Fitness Questions" />Hip Flexor Stretch
August 2, 2008
The rectus femoris has two places it inserts, the hip and the knee joint.
The tightness of the hip flexors can affect the lower back and cause a misalignment of the pelvis. And, ouch, that can become a chronic problem. For me, it was some back aches that sometimes seemed like sciatica.
So what is the hip flexor stretch that will help to alleviate these problems mentioned above? The hip flexor stretch! Simple but oh so important.
The hip flexor stretch begins with both knees on the floor, and then one foot coming forward. Keep your pelvis neutral, relax your shoulders down, gently tuck your chin towards your chest, as in a cervical nod in Pilates.
The action performed in a hip flexor stretch is while not moving your lumbar spine, gently move into an extension of the front of your quadriceps, while drawing the belly into the spine in a hollowing out type of feeling. Keep the tailbone long and drawing down towards the floor. If you are particularly flexible in the hip flexors then lift the back foot off and reach around and grab it. This will definitely give the quad and the hip flexors and serious stretch. But whether or not you can execute this to this degree, begin today doing this hip flexor stretch just for the mere fact you or we all sit alot! We need it simply for that!!
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The action performed in a hip flexor stretch is while not moving your lumbar spine, gently move into an extension of the front of your quadriceps, while drawing the belly into the spine in a hollowing out type of feeling. Keep the tailbone long and drawing down towards the floor. If you are particularly flexible in the hip flexors then lift the back foot off and reach around and grab it. This will definitely give the quad and the hip flexors and serious stretch.