hip flexor
Get Faster by Improving Your Core Mobility
Since the first computer was made mobile and we could carry them everywhere, the human posture has devolved back to the fetal position. Even typical...
Reducing Tight Hamstrings without Stretching for Hockey Players
Tight hamstrings plague hockey players. These athletes will spend a lot of time trying to stretch but the hamstrings never seem to loosen up. There are...
2 Ways to Fix Anterior Pelvic Tilt
Anterior pelvic tilt is not always a bad thing. According to Mike Boyle, co-founder of Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning (Woburn, Massachusetts), any athlete will have some degree of anterior [...]
How to Train During Your Hockey Season
Few sports take as much of a toll on the body as ice-hockey. Requiring a demanding mixture of speed, strength, power and anaerobic endurance, hockey is...
Lengthen Your Stride for Maximum Speed
Track season is knocking on the door, and the pursuit of maximum speed in training and preparation is on. Conventional wisdom states that speed is...
Sprint Faster With Speed Demons
One of the most important but neglected muscles in sprinting to increase your speed is the iliopsoas muscle, commonly known as the hip flexors, although...
Are Tight Hips Slowing You Down?
The "hip flexors" are the iliacus and psoas major, but the sartorious and rectus femoris are also powerful flexors of the hip and thetensor fasciae...
Avoid Low-Back Pain With These 7 In-Season Exercises
The lower back is the mediating force between upper and lower body. Like two foreign countries in negotiation, the aggressive behavior of one must be...
Having Trouble with Your Hip Hinge? Try These Drills
In just about every strength-training article you read these days, something will be mentioned about the deadlift, and for good reason...it works. It...
Linebacker Uses His Toddler As a Med Ball
Oakland Raiders linebacker Marshall McFadden missed most of training camp due to a hip flexor injury and was waived by the team in early August; but he hasn't let that [...]