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Health
Sam Rider

My osteopath recommended this one move to stretch and strengthen tight hip flexors and I still swear by it

Woman standing on one leg outdoors on grass with a tree and bushes behind her.

It's one of the fitness industry's biggest misnomers.

"Tight hip flexors" are very rarely tight. Ninety-nine times out of 100 they are, in fact, weak. At least, that was the lesson I learned many moons ago when I was laid flat out on my osteopath's massage table.

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