Psoas Stretch: 3 Hip Flexor Stretches & Anatomy -- Let’s find your hip flexors! From a standing position, lift your knee up toward your chest. The main muscles that contract to make this movement possible are the psoas, iliacus, and rectus femoris. The sartorius and pectineus also play a smaller but important role in flexion too (we'll cover those in a future video). VIDEO CONTENTS 00:11 Hip Flexor Tightness Check 00:42 Psoas Anatomy 01:22 Iliacus Anatomy 02:05 Why Your Hip Flexors are Tight? 03

==HOW TO STRETCH YOUR PSOAS== The Psoas Major is a long muscle that runs from your spine, over the front of your pelvis, to your thigh; connecting the front of your body to the back. This long range of influence means if you never open up your front, you can actually end up feeling a tonne of tightness in your back! It's normal to stretch the place that feels tight, but because the tightness is actually being caused by restriction in the front, stretching your back won’t help long term, it will