Why Your Psoas Feels Tight—and Why Stretching Isn’t the Solution

Do your hip flexors feel perpetually tight, even after stretching? The psoas, your primary hip flexor muscle, plays a crucial role in your body’s stability and movement. In this video, we’ll uncover two common reasons why your psoas holds tension and what you can do to address the root cause instead of relying on temporary fixes.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Video:

⏺️The psoas as a vertical stabilizer for the spine—and how abdominal strength can alleviate its workload.
⏺️How a forward femur in the hip socket causes the psoas to overwork, and the postural habits that contribute to this issue.
⏺️Effective strategies for relieving psoas tension that go beyond stretching, including core strengthening and proper posture techniques.

🎥 Highlights:

Spinal Stability & the Psoas:

1. Understand the connection between your psoas and lumbar spine.
⏺️Learn how strengthening your transverse abdominals and obliques can create balance.

2. Hip Socket Mechanics:
⏺️Discover how glute gripping and poor posture shove the femur forward, overloading the psoas.
⏺️Tips to improve hip alignment and release tension in deep hip rotators.

3. Practical Exercises:
⏺️Build core stability with exercises like dead bugs.
⏺️Use targeted techniques for eccentric loading and adductor activation.


🔔 Why It Matters:
The psoas often compensates for weak or misaligned muscles, leading to chronic tension and discomfort. By addressing these underlying factors, you can free your psoas to function as it’s meant to: a powerful and flexible hip flexor, not an overburdened stabilizer.

💬 Join the Conversation:
Have you experienced tight hip flexors? What strategies have helped you? Share your thoughts and questions in the comments! Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more tips on improving movement and reducing pain.

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00:00 Intro - Two Reasons the Psoas Might Be Tight

00:27 The Psoas is a Primary Vertical Stabilizer for the Spine

01:19 More Abdominal Strength Can Help Relieve the Psoas

02:07 Femur Forward in the Socket

02:58 What Causes the Femur to be Forward

03:37 Recap






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