It’s essential always to be thinking about the whole being and the different linking areas in the body. Don’t get caught in the trap of thinking this (insert muscle or tendon) will fix or improve all my problems.
And when you want to work with those areas, work on the tissue that gives you the biggest bang for your buck. The Iliopsosas is one of those muscles. Since it affects three linking regions of your body, hip, pelvis, and spine, it would behoove you to start working on this muscle and get it down.
Now there are 5 different main areas that you can target on this muscle, but getting the 1st basic posture down is required and super beneficial.
Parameters:
- Work this for 3 X 30 sec each side
- Pain in your kneeling knee use a pad underneath and/or don’t push that foot so far outside the hip.
- It is normal to feel the tension in the opposite front leg in the glute or thigh. It is all part of the chain.
- Factors of progression: Tucking the pelvis, Being tall with a slight lean forward of the upper body, the arms out and externally rotated.
