Your Psoas Isn't Just Tight, It's WEAK [Don't Stretch, Do These Instead]

Great! I'm happy to find you, as l was looking for something like this to help me. Now l know what to do 😊 Thank you very much and best regards from Thailand, Verena 🌹

Sitting isn't so much the issue as much as it's prolonged sitting. It's even been found that hunting/gathering tribes that still exist sit as much as the average American. The difference is duration.

Great vid & instruction. Question for you regarding the side extensions. I have have knee issues / meniscus tears & have had correcting surgery (a long time ago) but I still unintentionally guard the knees to prevent repeat injury. What cues do you suggest to protect the knee while performing these reps? Would it be simply to flex the foot (toes upwards), while in motion with the exercise?

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love your approach, many thanks!

Is this protocol good for acute psoas strain injury from Stretching too far?.

I'll let you know how it goes. I do pole dancing as well and my Psoas makes it painful and hard to do fan kick or inversions. Hopefully this helps!

Really good, easy to do at home. I've just had a hip replacement 3 months ago and I am a cyclist. My Physio said that I have a tight Psoas so I'm looking for a range of exercises to help it release and to strengthen. Now I've a go at all of them and the only i really struggled with was the one where you lie on the ground, it did give me a great deal of pain but I'll work on it. Thank you

Hello coach, I’m tarting to add these to my repertoire but I had a question, for the first exercise ASMR, would it be the same as flipping belly side and rolling on the massage ball? I feel a bit more pressure as if I’m using it as a foam roller. I tried the weights and don’t feel much pressure, should I increase the weights? Thank you!

Can you do less of talking and more of actions pls

Have MS and loss of balance. Do you recommend any exercises?

So I’m assuming sleeping on my side in a foetal position is bad for the psoas muscle??? Even with a pillow between legs???

This is the best video I have found on approaching the psoas; it addresses the full ROM and actions.

Thank you!!

I spent so many years stretching my hip flexors/glutes to no avail. Been doing more psoas release movements and I can’t believe the difference. I has psoas pop or snap in my right hip and did not know what it was until now. Although the noise/pop wasn’t painful, it scared me. I thought something was wrong with my hip. I’m so relieved after finding these types of channels. I can actually jog a little now and walk 4-5 miles without having so much tightness in my glute/hip area!

Can you do one on tight archilles heels? Feels like mine are going to blow!

Thank you.

Im a designer who sits for hours every day and whilst i do a lot of Pilates and regularly stretch my hip flexors, this video is probably going to change my life! I will be doing these exercises religiously. It makes such sense that they are in fact ‘weak’ not ‘tight’.. thank you!

Thanks so much for putting this video up. Liquid gold. I keep having TFL issues and finally it makes sense.

My burning iliopsoas turned into bursitis, I think after I started doing the lunge stretch for it. Now I understand why. It didn't help that I wasn't really aware of the bursa at all until I started having issues. I tried doing a much milder lunge and just sitting with it like I do the butterfly stretch, waiting for everything to just relax on it's own, and it felt really good without irritating the bursa.

I'm assuming that a tight burning psoas caused by too much studying in a chair is related to my weak core muscles/overuse of psoas for stability while seated. My understanding is that a short muscle doesn't really burn just because it is short (and the burning is worse when seated than when standing).

So now I'm having difficulty finding ways to improve seated core strength without aggitating the bursa. It seems a lot of lower ab and back movements involve a lot of leg movement.

You are better than a medical doctor. I did balancing on one leg with the other bent but being on my toes, it helped loosen the fascia. Thanks, gentleman!

ive had lower back issues for 3 years now, and after a years worth of chiropractic treatment, yoga, and exercise, it never left me. I would stretch out my psoas multiple times daily for a few hours of relief, but damn, just 1 day of this, and im already feeling SO MUCH IMPROVEMENT. Thank you!

Nice!! Is there a sport whereby we can work these? So we sit, we run, we walk but that thightens up the region. Swimming might be a good thing, however I wonder if there are other sports we can do …

❤❤❤ for layman info about helping get rid of my damn leg muscle pain …👀👍🏻😎🦵🏻💪🏻

If we are not using it we are losing it. I like this one.

Great stuff! Looking forward into incorporating this into my exercises. I have a question: in standing glute contraction, when activating the glutes, my legs automatically want to turn outwards. So I don't know how to combine this with 5 deg inward knee movement. Does this happen at the same time? Or am I using glutes for this inner 5 deg motion. Thanks so much!

Hello, can massage ball be a tennis ball?

Internal? Which way?

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Hey coach Joshua, I was wondering if you were able to review my comment regarding the first exercise? I’m sure you’re busy but would love some feedback, thanks!

Merci !

Simple and practical to follow in activation of less used muscles in hip and glut . Thnx E

With the standing wall exercise, I feel my lower back muscles start to cramp. Any tips?

Hi, i had a spinal cord trauma so i lost a lot of my mobility, i can still walk but I've been sitting more than i ever have in my life. I know my right leg n hip flexor are much weaker n tighter, it's great i can do this to strengthen my right hip side

I am surprised no one has recommended a course like this to me! I've been trying to figure it out myself with some gains but this is perfect in what it activates. I was wondering if you have any recommendations on exercises for the Tensor Fasciae latae? My left one has atrophied it seems or my right one is too big (though I have pain in my left hip so I think its the former rather than the later) and it have trouble targeting it. Thanks!

Could you use ankle straps with bands or pulleys for the "hands on the wall" exercise? It would become a pulling exercise like the last "push-up" exercise.

Great video for the psoas, thanks for sharing 😊

Thank you!

Thank you for the video coach!

I've had incredible back pain on my right side above my psoas, which, due to compensation, put so much pressure on my left side, that I feel tight in my whole body.

What are your thoughts on weightlifting as a way to strengthen your entire back, legs, and psoas?

I stretch out every day, and do calisthenics frequently but I've been thinking that I need to incorporate weighted compound exercises to strengthen my body.

Great stuff. As a former elite cyclist, my quads were over-developed and my glutes and surrounding muscles became weaker. This led to a great deal of discomfort and pain in the psoas area. Nothing has helped except doing the Yoga Tree Pose (going side to side with arms in a T) and working to strengthen my glutes. I will try these exercises to work on the other muscles. Thank you, Sir.

Dude, no offense, but you could have gotten to the point a lot sooner

Thank you. I won’t be able to do the last 2 due to chronic knee pain, but I think the first 3 are doable.

This just changed my life...

Wow incredible! I felt the tension and the pain released just after one set of these exercises! 😮 going to try it out like you said for a few weeks. My hip flexors have been inflamed since I started practicing lots of meditations and mantra singing 😅six hours in a lotus position will do it 😊 hopefully with these exercises I go on even longer. Thank you so much for this video!!! Lots of love to all and happy flexers 😊❤❤❤🙏

thank you!

This is incredibly informative. Thank you! I will be doing this to see if I can have some progress. I was in p.t for 5 months and doing some of the very standard stretches and I never saw as much progress as I wanted. I am very optimistic about your approach!

Thank you so much for this valuable information, you are a kind knowledgeable person!

If the psoas is deactivated when seated, why does it hurt while sitting?

Wow! I've spent 5 years trying to resolve my latest low back / left hip issue, trying massage, then chiropractic, then PT. I tried your stretches and exercises yesterday - just half the recommended sets, because almost everything seems to make me worse - and got the most incredible improvement! Thank you so much! I'll be increasing the reps / sets and looking forward to a cure!

My psoas starts hurting when I do the standing slumpy psoas. When I get it into flexion, it can really spasm, (I will feel it in the lower back and anterior hip medial to the ASIS). It feels good afterwards though. Wonder why that is? Thank you for giving some relief! I hope I can stop this. I've suffered with it for 2 years.

Good video. Tight muscles ARE weak muscles, as a result of a lack of contractile force that can be generated through an adequate range of motion. Therefore, it makes sense to perform both strengthening and stretching exercises for tight muscles.

Eye-opening commentary about the dangers of kinetic stretching and aggravating the injury you’re trying to heal! Thank you so much for this video …. And others!