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Standing Hip Flexors

How to do the Standing Hip Flexors with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.

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Primary muscles

Quads

Secondary

Equipment

Bodyweight

Step by step

How to do the Standing Hip Flexors

  1. 1

    Stand up straight with the spine vertical, the left foot slightly in front of the right.

  2. 2

    Bend both knees and lift the back heel off the floor as you press the right hip forward. You can't get a thorough, deep stretch in this position, however, because it's hard to relax the hip flexor and stand on it at the same time. Switch sides.

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