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What Are Hip Flexors
The hip flexors are a group of muscles toward the front of the hip. They help you move, or flex, your leg and knee up towards your body. A hip flexor strain occurs when one or more of the hip flexor muscles becomes stretched or torn
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Hip Flexor Strength Exercises Jackson Sayers, B.Sc. (Kinesiology), discusses ankle-weight assisted hip flexor strength exercises.Jackson Sayers, B.Sc. (Kinesiology), discusses ankle-weight assisted hip flexor strength exercises. -
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Hip Flexor Stretches Jackson Sayers, B.Sc. (Kinesiology), discusses hip flexor stretches to build flexibility.Jackson Sayers, B.Sc. (Kinesiology), discusses hip flexor stretches to build flexibility.
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Hip Flexor Strength Exercises
For the advanced motion with the ankle weight for your hamstring, simply get yourself onto the ground, get your other leg up into a 90 degree angle, and start to lift the leg up and down.
What you want to be thinking about is a nice, steady pace, 10 to 15 reps, always thinking about the stability of your stomach, firing up of your ass, keeping your core very stable. Often seeing a local family physician or a physiotherapist in conjunction with a registered dietitian and athletic therapist is a great option to take control of this condition. Smart Food Now and exercise is also optominal for overall health.
And from there it’s a very simple motion straight up and down, keeping your foot in a flex position and 90 degrees, nice and steady, up and down.
Presenter: Kinesiologist, Vancouver, BC
Now Health Network Local Practitioners: Family Physicians
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Hip Flexor Stretches
A very effective hip flexor stretch that can either be done standing or on the ground simply involves grabbing your ankle behind you leg, pulling it back into a fashion and getting a stretch throughout the whole quadriceps.
If you have a hard time grabbing your leg, you can always use a towel or some tubing to get it. But you’ll want to simply pull it in, fire up your quad, tighten up your stomach, and pull the muscle.
You want to be putting resistance against your hand with your foot, and give it a little push. It’s a very effective stretch at loosening up the quadriceps that gets extremely tight when you’ve been sitting a lot.
I like to do this hip flexor stretch before the bike, or after the bike, or if I’m going to do some walking on the treadmill. It really helps loosen up my quadriceps before I start my cardiovascular. Local Physiotherapist.
Presenter: Kinesiologist, Vancouver, BC
Now Health Network Local Practitioners: Kinesiologist