My wonderful Hip Flexors!

That was a joke! They are not wonderful. I am so upset with myself because of how I let my EGO push me past my limits on Race day and now I am paying the price! Here is a look at the Hip flexor and exactly where my strain is!  It's 7:30am. I am going to do a run today and HOPEFULLY get my 10 miles in! WE WILL SEE! I have it in my mind to warm up for a very long time, with my Dynamic stretches. I will also run super slow for as long as it takes.

I will be back to report how I did! CIAO!




The hip flexor is a group of muscles that cross the front of the hip. Their primary job is to help move your leg, pulling your knee to your chest or lifting your foot off the ground.

For the hip flexor to do their jobs, the rest of the muscles in your hips and core need to be pulling their weight.

• Your abdominal muscles have to stabilize your pelvis
• Your hip muscles need to be stabilizing your hips
• Your joints have to be able to move freely
• Hips must rotate,
• Your back must flex, rotate, and extend
• Your muscles need to be flexible

There are a LOT of things that have to work right for your body to be balanced. If any one of these things is out of balance -

• If your hip mobility is restricted,
• If your core is weak and not stabilizing your pelvis,
• If your hamstrings or hip flexors are too tight,
• If your low back doesn't flex, rotate, and extend

- then your body has to compensate.

Your hip flexors primary job is to move your leg. But if there are mobility restrictions, or weakness in the core, then the hip flexor gets called on to do extra work.

What happens when you have to work twice as hard or twice as long as usual?

You get tired.

The same thing happens to your hip flexor...when it has to help stabilize your core, or has to work harder to move restricted joints, it gets tired.

Tired muscles aren't as strong, they aren't as powerful, and they are much more likely to be overloaded and injured.

Rest, ice, and stretching can help with your hip flexor problem, but if you want a full recovery - if you want to get back to sports quickly, safely, and as strong and powerful as before, you need to get your body back into balance.