It’s important to always think about the whole being and the different linking areas in the body.
And when you want to work with those areas, work on the tissue that gives you the biggest bang for your buck. The Iliopsosas is one of those muscles. Since it affects three linking areas of your body, hip, pelvis, and spine, it would behoove you to start working on this muscle and get it down.
Now, you can target 5 different main areas on this muscle, but getting the 1st basic posture down is required and super beneficial.
Parameters:
- Work this for 3 X 30 sec each side
- Pain in your kneeling knee use a pad underneath and/or don’t push that foot so far outside the hip.
- It is normal to feel tension in the opposite front leg in the glute or thigh. It is all part of the chain.
- Factors of progression: Tucking the pelvis, Being tall with a slight lean forward of the upper body, the arms out and externally rotated.
