Hip flexor stretches help improve your posture and fight off lower back, hip, and knee pain. Using a foam roller on your upper legs may help relax your hip flexors and increase flexibility.

How can you prevent it? The hip flexor exercises rounded up here are the ones physical therapists recommend most to runners as well as people who cycle and row. How to know if you have tight hip ...

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.

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 ...

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.