Hip Flexors is Where The Work Starts

“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” (Bruce Lee)

It is important for us to focus on hip mobility because immobile hips cause huge issues in the kinetic segments above AND below, i.e. stress on the knees and lower lumbar.  Hip mobility means our ability to move our legs into extension, flexion, internal / external rotation, ADDuction and ABDuction; without restriction for a required activity.  Many times we can’t do this because we sit too much, we drive too much and after our workouts, we don’t include mobility work to negate the restrictions that are associated with recovery from strength training.

Upper back mobility is also very important.  Working our our thoracic mobility will improve our posture, ensure our shoulder health and will develop efficiency (without restriction) of movement by optimizing the structure of the diagonal fascial line running from each shoulder to the opposite hip.  This coordinated muscle action determines our ability to move and has a huge impact on how we transfer forces.

The final important piece of the puzzle requires us to strengthen these new movement patterns.  It is one thing to be mobile, but we must control and stabilize throughout the movement pattern.