Personal trainer shares three hip flexor strengthening exercises runners can do to build strength and improve performance.

Strengthening your hip flexors can reduce the strain on your lower back and hamstrings, according to Ripps. That’s because if ...

'Your hamstrings flex your knee, pulling it backwards, and extend your hip, which help with the push-off and toe-off phases ...

As runners, we place a lot of emphasis on taking care of our lower legs. B ut we can't forget about the larger muscles, tendons and ligaments higher up, like hips, glutes and hamstrings. When one ...

Together, the psoas and iliacus make up the iliopsoas--the body's most powerful hip flexor. Why should runners care about a hard-to-find muscle with a funny name? Because the psoas enables you to run.

Six Hip and Glute Exercises to Keep Runners—And Everyone Else—on Their Feet ... Weak glutes lead to tight hip flexors, forcing other muscles, like the quads, to overcompensate.

Many runners are tight in the hip flexor muscles, and sitting for long hours reduces flexibility in the anterior hip region. Causes for Hip Flexor Strain. Typical causes for a hip flexor strain are ...

According to a 2011 survey, roughly 10% of runners experience hip pain at least once a year. The difficulty is that it’s hard to pinpoint which muscle in the hip area is causing your pain.

Reed Ferber, Ph.D., and colleagues looked at 283 studies that examined running-related injuries and concluded that the connections between weak hip stabilization muscles and running injuries were ...

Marathoners have minimal abductor muscle atrophy and CAM impingement after marathons, however marathon running has no negative impact on the pelvis and hip joints and muscles, according to ...