Tight hip flexors tilt your pelvis forward and strain your lower back. A hip-flexor lunge fixes it, with four progressions from basic to advanced. Engage your glutes and core, add rotation, elevate your back leg, or combine all three for maximum opening.
If you're suffering from lower back pain, this is the number one stretch you should master to get rid of it. You want to do some sort of hip flexor lunge movement. Now, the hip flexor is this band in front of your pelvis. When it gets tight, it tilts your pelvis down and forward. That puts pressure on your lower back. So either this standard hip flexor lunge movement where you flex your glute and your abs at the same time and move forward and backwards, Or more advanced hip flexor lunge movement where you open up your entire torso and then rotate away, really opening up the hip. Or maybe you prop up the back leg to get a lot more of a stretch in that front quad and go back and forth and rock it open. Or maybe you add them all together and really, really, really focus on opening up that hip. Either way, open up your psoas and your hip flexors and get rid of your back pain.
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