Meet the Muscular BEAST behind much of our pain and dysfunction: It’s the Hip Flexor Muscle and we build it up every time we work at a desk!
Sitting at our desk places ENORMOUS DEMAND on our Hip Flexor Muscles (See: Hip-A-Tightus on RanksAcademy.com) while nearly putting the rest of our lower body musculature to sleep!
Hip Flexor is a Monster Muscle built to rotate our whole trunk! Every time we reach for the mouse or wiggle in our chair, the hip flexors get a workout!
PROBLEM:
Muscles THRIVE on demand (This is the phenomenon of Strength by Addition to be discussed shortly).
Warning: OVERGROWN Hip Flexors, seeded by sitting, overwhelm balancing musculature & inadvertently shut down our hips, giving us duck feet, stooped shoulders.....AND LOTS OF BACK PAIN!!!!
The Beast of Sitting must be Sat Down!
We counter-balance overgrown hip flexors in two ways:
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Build Up the Groups Opposing Hip Flexors:
- The Rotator Cuff and Rhomboid Muscles of the Upper Back oppose forward lean
- The Calf and Hamstrings pull back the classic tipping pelvis created by overly strong Hip Flexors
(See Strategic Strength at RanksAcademy.com)
2. Sooth the Savage Prolonged passive elongations of the Hip Flexor calm hyperactive muscle – this is a different style of stretching in which a muscle is lengthened and held relaxed for up to an hour!! The Process is called “myofascial release” and it is one the flexibility styles employed in Ranks training – (Visit Flexibility Freed/Flexibility Cultivated at RanksAcademy.com)
You Must Keep Your Hip Flexors Tamed to Stay Free in your body!
Look for “Flexibility: A Specialized Form of Strength” from the Be Your Own Personal Trainer Series at RanksAcademy and Stand Up for Yourself!!!
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