With a sitting lifestyle comes hip flexor tightness. Whether you could use a good stretch or if you’re already stretching your hip flexors, I want you to take a look at the image below. 
We can see from the picture (left side) that the typical stretch is performed with the following:
- Excessive trunk lean
- Lead foot far ahead
- No real strategy at the hip
With this mostly what we will be getting is a Rectus Femoris (Quadriceps) stretch if anything.
If we tweak just a few things about how this stretch is performed on the left side, we will get much more benefits out of it. Yes, please!
So here is what to change:
- Rather than trying to get the lead leg far ahead, focus on posteriorly tilting your pelvis. For this, imagine, you’re trying to tuck your tailbone underneath you.
- As opposed to allowing the lower back to cave in and your stomach to protrude forward, reduce the curve in your lower back and engage your abdominals (imagine you’re wearing a 2 piece bathing suit and you want to look GREAT)
- Hold your trunk in an upright position, squeeze your glutes and draw your shoulders and head back, so they don’t drift forward.
The result will be more effective as your hip flexors will get a deep stretch.
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