 what is going on. Today's video is just going to be nice and short. Straight to the point it's something that has helped me tremendously with my lower back pain and my hip flexor mobility. Obviously when we're training in the gym every day also when we're doing things like driving every single day for hours on end I probably do about two or three hours of driving a day. My right foot is constantly going up and down so obviously that hip flexor muscle is constantly being shortened and lengthened and what is that going to do over time? It's going to create extremely tight muscles and that's exactly what's happened to me. I haven't been stretching them as much as I should so what I did I went online and I got taught how to stretch my hip flexor properly and what I didn't actually realize guys is that the hip flexor is not only down the front of the hip it actually also wraps right around and connects all the way to your lower back. So your right hip flexor goes all the way around your right hip and connects to your lower back. Your left one once again goes all the way around and connects to your left left side of your lower back. So my right hip flexor has been given me trouble for a long time. I was feeling a slight dull sort of pulling sort of you know soreness in my lower back and I thought possibly they could be related because at some times when I tried to stretch my hip flexor at this point I didn't actually know how to stretch it properly but sometimes when I did I sort of felt like it was slowly slowly relieving pressure on my lower back so what I did I actually realized that they are correlated and I learned how to stretch my hip flexor properly so that's what I'm going to show you today. So when a lot of people go to try and stretch their hip flexor they'll put yes they'll put their leading foot out they're going to try and stretch this hip flexor. You'll see people and the the main motion that they do is lean so they'll lean forward they'll try and feel a stretch along here most of the time they won't and they'll wonder why but they'll continue going down and down and down until yes you do finally start feeling a stretch here but it's not the right stretch okay it's not the right stretch so you know you can you can be leaning forward all you like and you're still not going to activate it the way you want so what you do you once again put the foot out on the 90 degree angle but what you're actually going to focus on is this your glute muscle so first thing you're going to do before you do any stretching is squeeze the glute so I'm going to squeeze my right glute and this is what's going to happen okay so what that does that forces my afts slightly underneath me and makes my upper back and makes my back go nice and straight so once again first thing I'm going to do squeeze the glute okay that brings everything slightly forward I think it's supinated I'm not sure how you call it but it's going to bring everything slightly forward like this and then and then when you've got your your glute nice and tensed then you can start leaning forward and you're not going to be able to lean forward very far at all and I'll tell you what all I need to do is a couple of inches forward so I'll squeeze the glute a couple of inches forward and I'm already feeling it all the way down here and all the way to my lower back so when you do it like this this is when you really realize that yes your hip flex it does you know participate in your lower back health a lot so I'll hold this for 30 seconds I'll go the other side I'll do it again on this side and I'll do it again on the other side you should probably hold them for a bit longer but I'm still learning and it still hurts like fuck so that's what I'm going to do now good luck to you guys your hips your glutes your lower back is so important you want to keep it as healthy as possible so you get on this