Sit upright with knees bent, hands resting behind you. Cross left ankle over right knee. Let right knee travel out to the ...

If you focus on proper form, a consistent mobility and strength routine can significantly improve your hip health. “It’s not ...

“When your knees are at 90 degrees while sitting, the hip flexor muscles are held in a shortened position – you’re keeping ...

In this six-part series, we'll demonstrate quick exercises for different areas of your body every week to help you stay limber.

“Doing the couch stretch – loosening up the quads, hip flexors and piriformis [a muscle running from the lower spine to the top of the thighs] – will really help you loosen up the hips, and [ease] the ...

Dealing with knee or back pain? It could be due to tight hip abductors. Here's how to stretch your hip abductors, per an ...

That’s because hip flexors—the muscles that allow flexion at the hip joint—play a huge role in fluid running, and a set of tight ones can really mess with your mechanics. That’s where incorporating ...

But tight hip flexors can cause issues all over the body and you might not always be aware of what’s going on. So, to help you figure out whether or not your hips are struggling, we asked the ...

Build hip flexor strength. Sit on the floor, chest up, legs straight, a kettle-bell or another object just outside your right ankle. Keeping your legs straight, lift your right leg over the object and ...

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. The group of muscles that allow bending at the hip ...

"When the hip flexor muscles are tight they cause increased tension on the low back," Barnick says. "The psoas muscle, part ...

“Reduced flexibility and weakness in the iliacus can result in hip stiffness and pain associated with muscle tightness.” A shortened iliacus can also result from skipping out on stretching ...