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Hip Flexibility Solution Review

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Hip Flexibility Solution Review

First of all, coming from a martial arts guy, I love the concept. If you want to get the most of your potential, this is a must. I think it can benefit the MMA community as well as the power lifter community. A lot of people have problems with their hips and they don’t even realize it. If you sit down all day at the computer or in a bus, you are not using your hip flexors. The hips problem can take many form: back pain, flexibility problems… This hip flexibility solution program can be for those who want to release their tight hips or for those who do not want hips problems.

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Why did I chose this Hip flexibility system?

I discovered Eric Wong in 2013 because I was searching for a conditioning program for MMA fighters. I have been following his blog since that time. Eric is an expert on flexibility, and he is also the creator of the new Shoulder Flexibility Solution. I practice martial arts since I am 7 years old and let’s say that I am not the flexible type. It was nearly impossible for me to throw high kicks with my right leg. With the knowledge I acquire since that time, I know that a lot of movements comes from the hips so I wanted to increase my hip mobility.

Let’s take a look inside Eric Wong hip flexibility program

The moment you buy the product, you will receive all that you need to fix your hips: The Bioenergetics Routine, The Kneeling Routine, The Standing Routine, The Advanced Mobility Exercises, The Core Exercises and The Active SMR(self myofascial release). I suggest that you do a little hip flexibility test before and after Eric Wong program.hip-flexibility-solution

You can start with the 60 pages Master Manuel to educate yourself. You will find good stuff inside: Reasons we get tight, 3D Flexibility Factors, 3D Flexibility System, teaching about the body, flexibility literature, hip kinesiology, anatomy, back story… Then, after the theory you can make your way to the Techniques Manual where you are introduce to the “how to”. You can also take a look at Eric Wong’s website: PowerDojo.com. His blog is full of useful information.

The key to all the exercises regarding to your hips problem is, when you get into the different range of motion, you have to strengthen the muscles all around them and mobilize the joint capsule and take care of any kind of restrictions that is limiting your flexibility.

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Personally, coming from a martial arts background, the program helped me to improve my kicking power. The lateral leg drop worked like magic on my body: my movements are more fluid, my kicking speed have increase and it has improve my strength. I was also suffering from low back pain… well guess what? Almost disappear (except in the morning).

Hip Flexibility Solution:

The 6 Powerful Hip Flexibility Solution Routines:

  • The HFS Bioenergetics Routine
  • The HFS Kneeling Routine
  • The HFS Standing Routine
  • The HFS Core Routine
  • The HFS Advanced Mobility Routine
  • The HFS Active SMR(self myofascial release) Routine

What equipment do I need to complete Eric Wong’s program?

You will need rubber bands, massage ball and foam roller. That’s it. If you don’t have any equipment, your local gym should have all you need.

PROs

  • Eric Wong is doing every exercises along the way
  • Nice teaching in the videos
  • Quality stuff that really help

CONs

  • Its a bit expensive
  • You need a gym for some of the exercises

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Unlock your hip flexors

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Our hip flexors are the engine that makes our body move. Everything goes through the hips. When our hip flexors tighten it causes a lot of problems for people active like me. A lot of people end up having tight hip flexors and do not realize it.

Tight hip flexors are the root cause of problems such as:

  • Walking with discomfort
  • Hips locking up
  • Bad posture
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Digestive problems
  • Circulatory issues
  • Loss of sexual performance
  • Lack of Explosiveness in the gym or sports

Your hips are the bridge link between your upper body and your lower body. They are at the center of your body’s movement.

Even if you are a top athlete, you can suffer from a tight psoas due to the amount of time you spend each day planted to a chair. The psoas is the only muscle in the human body connecting the upper body to the lower body. You have to go beyond simple static stretching. Holding a few static stretches for a period of time to try and gain hip flexibility is not the solution to unlock your hip flexors.

You need to strengthen the muscle from multiple angles using a variety of exercises in order to unlock your hip.

According to Mike Westerdal (creator of “Unlock Your Hip Flexors” and national best-selling fitness author), there is some specific techniques you need to unlock your hip flexors. Some of these techniques include:

  • Proprioceptive Peuromuscular Facilitation Stretching: It is a technique where you are activating a specific muscle in order to relax the muscles around a joint so you can decrease the stiffness around a joint.
  • Dynamic Stretching: This is where you are activating the muscle around a joint and moving that joint through its full range of motion in a progressive manner.
  • 3-Dimensional Core Stability Exercises: These exercises are targeting the muscle in all planes of movement so the core and abdominal muscles have good activation, endurance and strength in all planes of movement.
  • Mobility Exercises: These exercises are targeting the joint and doing movements and exercises that help the joint function optimally.
  • Fascia Stretching: This technique is targeting the tissue that muscles are surrounded in and working on loosening and lengthening the fascia.
  • Muscle Activation Movements: With this technique, we’re targeting those muscles that are not are not working properly and activate them in order to help the body move more efficiently.

Source: (Unlock your Hip Flexors by Mike Westerdal)

Some of the specialists like Rick Kaselj are using a sequential flow method. The injury specialist Rick Kaselj helps to learn how to work through the right sequence of techniques to unlock the tension and tightness in my muscles to properly solve problems. Even if you know all the movements, you must do the movements in the right order.

There is a program called Unlock Your Hip Flexors made by Mike Westerdal and Rick Kaselj. This program is divided in two parts. The first is a Coaching Instructional Video where Rick takes you through each exercise in detail, so you fully understand why you are doing that exercise. The second part is a step by step format made so you can do the flow alongside the video.

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