and director of the STOTT pilates program at Sports Academy and Racquet Club in New Logan, UT. Hip flexor stretches help improve your posture and fight off lower back, hip, and knee pain.

If you have a sedentary job where you sit at a desk, table or behind the wheel of a car, there’s a high chance you’ve got tight hip flexors ... says Tom Holland, an exercise physiologist.

Plagued by tight hip flexors? These moves will prime your body for some heavy lifting and fix any nagging imbalances and weaknesses. If your hip flexors perpetually feel like two rubber bands ...

2. Side lying leg with rotation If you're familiar with Pilates abs workouts, you'll recognise this exercise. By lying on your side, you're strengthening the hip flexors (which is very beneficial ...

Come back up. And then feel it on the other side. Also the hip flexor in your quads, basically get some kind of balance pull that up. Just pull that back into a stretch. Repeat for the other side.

Sitting at a desk, day after day, can reinforce “poor posture patterns” and hold your hip flexors in a shortened ... sports and strength training exercises like squats.

Just a few minutes of intentional hip opener stretches each day can make a dramatic ... This engages and gradually loosens the hip flexors, adductors, and muscles surrounding the pelvis ...

If you've been practicing Pilates regularly for some time ... deep core while improving control in the lower abdominals and hip flexors," says Warburton. How long for? Aim for around four reps ...

From trauma-releasing stretches on TikTok to hip ... imbalances in the hip,” explains PT and pilates instructor Aimee Victoria Long. “The hip flexor being tight pulls the pelvis forward ...

Pilates has become one of the most popular forms of exercise in the world ... especially the psoas muscle (hip flexors), which runs from the upper thigh, stomach, and then towards the lower ...

To reduce the risk of injury and build strength, fitness and power in the process, runners should incorporate strength and conditioning work into their weekly training regime – and engaging in Pilates ...