Stop Stretching Your Hip Flexors! How To Fix Them The RIGHT Way
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Published 2023-12-21
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WHAT ARE THE “HIP FLEXORS”?
Your hip flexors are a group of four muscles that flex your leg forward at your hip. The rectus femoris and sartorius assist in flexing your hip from your pelvis; the iliacus and psoas (iliopsoas) anchor to your pelvis and lower back above your hip joint.
WHAT CAUSES HIP FLEXOR PAIN?
Pain in the front of your hip in the area of your hip flexors can be caused by multiple issues. Among the most common is dysfunction in your hip flexors. Many people automatically think their hip flexors are “too tight”, but this isn’t always the case. Weakness in the hip flexors can cause a similar pain in this area.
HOW TO CHECK TIGHT HIP FLEXORS
The most widely-accepted method for checking tightness in hip flexors is the “Thomas Test” that is demonstrated in this video. A positive test (meaning you do have some tightness in your hip flexors) is if your leg stays elevated 4+ inches off the table or if there’s a significant difference on one side as compared to the other.
BEST EXERCISES FOR HIP FLEXOR MUSCLES
If your hip flexors are tight, the best treatment for them is steady and consistent stretching. If the problem is weakness in your hip flexor muscles, the best treatment is to strengthen them with resisted exercise. Both are covered for you in this video.
0:00 Introduction
1:51 Test For Tight Hip Flexors
3:53 Test For Weak Hip Flexors
6:02 Stretches For Tight Hip Flexors
10:14 Exercises For Weak Hip Flexors
13:11 More Hip Help
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All Comments (21)
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Were your hips TIGHT or WEAK? I would love to hear your "diagnosis" - leave me a comment below! If you're looking for more great stretches for your tight hips check out this video: https://youtu.be/nm-fxV-bwWg If you need more great exercises to strengthen your weak hips, check out this video for that: https://youtu.be/TH7XujK_ubs
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71 yr old fitness coach/ trainer. Your videos are very important info that most people need. Lots of misinformation out there. YOU I TRUST!! And I recommend all my clients to subscribe.. Best video on tightness and weakness for hip flexors I’ve seen. The actual anatomy of those muscles was crucial. Thank you Jared
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Whew it was weakness!!! This whole time I thought it was tight or feeling like it needed to “pop”. It was causing pain spin to my knee and in my glute. Thank you!! Incorporating the exercises on my rest days!
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Always excellent and so helpful. Thank you and happy holidays. Peace to all.
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You’re too awesome❤thanks for your service❤
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Wow!! I am a 70 year old active woman. I have been doing exercises for my SI joint for over 6 months and still have regular, periodic glute pain especially when walking fast or after sitting a while. I was looking to see if you had any quad exercises as I noticed how weak my quad still is after straining it badly over a year ago. I saw this video and decided to take a look and did your two tests. Wow!! I passed the stretching test easily. For the strength test, I could not raise my knee at all!! In two weeks I have increased being able to do only a few of the single leg raises to doing 3 sets of 10. I am beginning to feel better and have not had any aching for several days. I plan to progress through the four levels of exercises that you listed. Thank you so much!
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So weak not tight - who knew! Thsnks will keep going
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Very valuable lessons. Great presentation. Kudos and thanks very much.
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Awesome job clarifying the difference between tightness and weakness. Also, nice kicks.
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Dr Jarrett I have been following your channel for a month now your videos are very helpful your core workouts > not flexible and finally > Every Morning has been very helpful thank you so much man and keep up the good work❤💯
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Thank you!
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I have been doing the three exercise that you showed to strengthen your hips since I watched this tape the day it came out and it has really helped, thank you. What I would like to know is do you have any more exercises that I could add to it? Thanks
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Thanks for the great videos and content, explaining in the simple way and suggesting the effective solutions. For this particular video, what if none of the ways you mentioned applied? I mean, I did your both tests and apparently I am quite flexible and relatively with strong core. Which make sense as have been doing bodyweight workouts, including different types of cores and stretching, for the last few years. For a quick level assessment shows I can do: 50 push-ups, 2.5-3 min plank (including variations) with no rest - but recently experiencing lower back pain at right top of the glue more in the right side. Sometimes it also reaches to right knee from the side of the leg. For the stretching, I am doing already vacations of like bird-dog, plank, bridge, curl-up, side Lying thoracic rotation, gluteal stretch, hip flexor stretches with trunk rotation, lunge stretch, hip flexor stretches with band, pigeon stretches, hamstring stretch, Windshield Wiper, and for the core workout again almost everything in the intermediate level.(fultter kick, plank and side planks, etc. you name it) I shouldn’t have had any lower back pain at all. So the question is what I am missing and what needs to be done? Thanks
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Love this! No more stretching for me. I am definitely weak. Especially on my right side, my problem side 👍
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Both! And imbalanced between left and right strength and weakness, and tightness in one but not the other.
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How many times a week should I do the hip flexor strengthening exercises?…love your channel !
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Awesome…well explained! Tight hip flexors here. Just started Dr. Peebles CBT. I hope to get some lower back pain relief. Thanks for your contribution!
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Wonderful tips, thank you. I did both tests and seems like I don’t have tightness nor weakness but every single time I do any glute exercises such as deadlifts or lunges one side of my lower back behind my hip flexor hurts. It only hurts when I’m working out but goes away after. Any suggestion for this?
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Wow, now I know its weakness! Thank you for this!
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How many times a week/day should I be doing the strengthening exercises please?
