Unlock Your Hip Flexors Pdf Download Mike Westerdal | Page 74

So one muscle must communicate with the next muscle and so on and so
forth. In the case of sped, everyone has front muscles, the hip flexors,
which are contracted. Everyone understands that these muscles are tight
but this is actually slowing the legs down.
You need to really focus on getting that hip to open. So lets actually start
showing you what’s happening. What you really need to know is that the
body is designed to have something in the back turned off if something
in the front is on.
Basically we are an anterior driven society so the front for your body is
working overtime, at all times. Consequently this will get tightened and
turned on, eventually getting harder and preventing the hip joint from
opening completely.
As a result, the posterior part of your body, your butt, is going to turn
off. I am going to show you how to make that backside functional, but
first let’s find out what it looks like. In order to push your leg
backwards, your glutei and hamstrings need to work.
So you need to focus on foam rolling, trigger point work and stretches
for your glutei and hamstrings. For the starter, you must get them to
learn how to move, and then get them to contract with trigger point work
or squats.
It is also important to get them to communicate, by using fluid motion in
your stretches. Once you do that, you must then understand the hip
flexor area. This area will be the next tricky part. This gives the glute
and hamstrings a reason to stay working.