Isometric Hip Flexion Dead Bugs

In general I think there's more of a tendency to wanna stretch the hip flexors (couch stretch, half-kneeling hip flexor stretch, etc.) than there is to strengthen them. I can understand why--stretching feels good, and isolating the hip flexors for concentric strengthening probably would look funny and be unconventional to do in a commercial gym. Also no one really cares about getting jacked iliopsoas muscles (outside of bodybuilding I suppose?). _ Functionally speaking though strengthening the hip flexors with a little more specificity can serve several purposes especially for people experiencing FAI (femoroacetabular impingement). Loading the hip flexion musculature (especially as an open chain, or foot not touching the ground) will be a novel way for some people to create strength and stability in that region, where loading in flexion usually occurs via closed chained activities (squatting, lunging, hinging, etc). _ You also have the option here to manually resist flexion in varying degrees of hip flexion or internal/external rotation for graded exposure to pinchy hip positions. #ClinicalAthlete

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