Would you like to know what kind of damage you are doing to your body by sitting on your ass all day long? I mean that’s what most of us humans do, we’re constantly sitting. But did you know how this affects the muscles of your pelvic region, your blood flow, your posture, and even your stress levels and hormones?
According to Rick Kaselj’s ‘Unlock your Hip Flexors’ program, tight hip flexors (or psoas as is their right name) are extremely common, and will without a shade of doubt lead to poor posture, back pain, impaired circulation to the pelvic region & legs, sub-par range of motion during exercise, and even hormonal changes.
The question is, how much of this is true and does the program really help you unlock and release your tight psoas muscles?
How Good is ‘Unlock your Hip Flexors’ Really?
I don’t normally care that much about stuff that is related to stretching, and you might wonder what is this kind of review even doing in a natural T-optimization blog, so allow me to explain how I got into reading the program.
I used to be really athletic as a kid and had absolutely no problems with general mobility or any muscle pain, but when I got to around 15-years of age, I for some reason just started playing on the computer and Playstation A LOT.
So much so, that in a year my posture had gotten to a pretty bad state, so bad that my father decided it was a time for me to go see a physiotherapist, the kind physio-man then ran some tests on me and quickly concluded that I had something called “anterior pelvic tilt”, which means that my pelvis was tilted in to a “forward” position, causing my back to round and my ass to look like one of Donald Duck’s.
As you might guess, I was “prescribed” a set of stretches, and sent home. I did the stretches for few weeks, didn’t notice a difference, and then just stopped…
Few years after that, I got interested in bodybuilding and hitting the gym. I gained some mass, got pretty strong, and then at some point started noticing that my lower back was always pretty sore after working out legs and back, and that my range of motion wasn’t good enough on many important movements, which eventually got me into thinking that my “anterior pelvic tilt” was probably still causing problems. After all, I never really fixed it.
That’s when I decided to really take matters into my own hands and started doing research on what caused the problem and to fix it. This eventually led me into a conclusion that I had really tight hip flexors (as the physiotherapist had concluded too), and that I need to find a sustainable way to get them back to normal flexibility. Aaand that’s precisely when I found out the Unlock your Hip Flexors program.
With a tight psoas from sitting all day your hips will become fixed in a forward thrust position causing your pelvis and leg(s) to rotate. This forward tilt will cause your hip socket to become compressed leading to pulling and shifting of joints, tendons, and muscles pulling on your lower back. This pulling on the lower back WILL decrease blood flow and circulation as well as delayed nerve response to the hips.
The pros of the program:
* The main PDF is 63-pages long and clearly explains the functions of the psoas and why it’s one of the most important muscles in the body
The cons of the program:
* The claims that tight psoas will ruin your life and that you MUST unlock them are ridiculous, I lived just fine with them for years
Original article and pictures take unlock-hipflexors.blogspot.com site
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