Stretching - Hip Flexors

[white owl]

Another thing the PT said was to get a tennis ball and massage the area. with the ball on the ground, lay on your stomach, with the ball lined up in the flexor/top of quad and just roll around a little bit.

It definitely felt like it did something afterwards (trigger points?). May want to do it when your alone, though - when you are doing it, it looks a little .... ummm .... peculiar

I have actually heard about that one, never tryed it though.

Bushido_Man named a good book about flexibility;

Ultimate Flexibility by Sang H. Kim, I highly recommend this book also.

[bushido_man96]

Another thing the PT said was to get a tennis ball and massage the area. with the ball on the ground, lay on your stomach, with the ball lined up in the flexor/top of quad and just roll around a little bit.

It definitely felt like it did something afterwards (trigger points?). May want to do it when your alone, though - when you are doing it, it looks a little .... ummm .... peculiar

...just doing my harbor seal impression, honey. Honey?

Too funny!!!

[Minx]

I've been having physio for my wonky hip and tight ITB and TFL. The exercise I've been doing is to lie on the side of the bed, hang the leg you want to stretch over the edge and pull back on that foot as far as you can while tucking the other leg with knee bent up to your chest.

I find the normal warm ups and downs in a session at the dojo do more good than the physio did though.