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Why Your Hip Flexors Are So Tight (and What to Do About It)

Published: March 20, 2019, 1 p.m.

If you\u2019re like most people, your hips feel tight all the time, and especially right at the top of your thighs.

They probably flare up when you do lower body exercises too, like the squat and deadlift.

Such is life with tight hip flexor muscles.

What can you do about it, though? Should you stretch? Strengthen? Something else altogether?

Well, poke around on the Internet and you\u2019ll find a lot of conflicting opinions on what causes tight hip flexors and what to do about it.

Some people say that sitting is to blame because it shortens and weakens the muscles, others say exercise--and weightlifting in particular--is at fault, and others still say that muscle weakness is the root cause.

There isn\u2019t much agreement about how to best fix the problem, either.

\u201cStretching is the key,\u201d says one expert. \u201cNo,\u201d counters the other, \u201cstrengthening must come first.\u201d

And there you are in the middle, wondering whom to believe and what to do.

Well, the truth is hip flexor tightness isn\u2019t as cut and dried as many people would have you believe. As you\u2019ll see, causation is murky and \u201cmagic bullet\u201d fixes are unlikely.

The good news, though, is you don\u2019t have to know exactly why your hip flexors are acting up to figure out how to fix it, and with a little trial and error, you can do just that.

Let\u2019s start at the top...

4:09 - What are hip flexors?
5:37 - What causes tight hip flexors?
9:01 - What are the best stretches for tight hip flexors?
14:18 - What are the best exercises for strengthening the hip flexors?

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