by Tim Harwood | Oct 30, 2024 | Exercises, Lower body
This movement is a way of lengthening the psoas muscle (one of the hip flexors) which has a number of key steps to it. These are using the mechanics of the body to try to focus the movement into the psoas and countering typical avoidance movements. This is an...
by Tim Harwood | Jul 10, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
This movement is really quite simple, but somehow really quite powerful in soothing a grumpy psoas. This can be the muscle that gets tight over a day being sat down in a chair, so it can be really nice to do just as you settle down to sleep. Equipment None, except...
by Tim Harwood | Apr 8, 2020 | Exercises
Th following stretches look to get to the side of the body, and also the side of the lumbar spine. The muscles that is particularly targeted is the Quadratus Lumborum (QL for short, and because it’s easier to say). The QL runs from the lowest ribs, the...
