Tight hip flexors are a surprising but common cause of chronic tension in your hamstrings — the muscles on the backs of your legs that stretch when you bend to touch your toes. Since hamstrings ...

Also, with sitting our hip flexors become tight, and that reflexively to contributes to the weakness of the gluteus maximus.

If you want to know if your hip flexors are weak, and can't afford to see a physical therapist in person, you can do this quick test ... While it's the hamstrings and glutes that do most of ...

You need to maintain a balance of strength between the hip flexors, glutes, and hamstrings, otherwise you can overuse the former and end up with strain in the front of the hip, most likely the ...

Tight hip flexors are a surprising but common cause of chronic tension in your hamstrings — the muscles on the backs of your legs that stretch when you bend to touch your toes. Since hamstrings attach ...