When it comes to which elements of your stride you can improve, your hips don’t lie. That’s because hip flexors—the muscles that allow flexion at the hip joint—play a huge role in fluid running, and a ...

Regularly stretching and strengthening your hip flexor muscles can help relieve tightness, increase flexibility and improve ...

When it comes to your hip flexors, you're likely focused (or, obsessed, in our case) on stretching them. However, with this critical muscle group, there's a key element you're probably neglecting: ...

If most inner-thigh openers feel too easy (and your ankles and knees are injury-free), try Frog pose. It “opens the hips and ...

Both Dr. Hasson and Dr. Fata-Chan offer lunges as an example of a classic stretch that targets the hip flexors directly.

If you have ever felt tension in the front of your hips after sitting too long, struggled with lower back pain or had difficulty touching your toes, your hip flexors may be to blame. These often ...

Wisdom comes with age. But flexibility? It feels like we lose a little limberness every year — and that can come with some (*ahem*) stiff consequences. It’s not just that you can’t do the splits or ...

One 2019 study, published in PLoS One, found that an eight-week core training program improved balance and core endurance ...