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By Marguerite Ogle, About.com Guide to Pilates

Hip Flexors vs Abs

Friday January 16, 2009
hip flexorsAre your hip flexors taking over you ab exercises? It's very possible. Lots of people are working hard at ab exercises but working their hip flexors instead. In fact, you can do 500 situps and not really target your abs the way you want to. A little insight as to how the hip flexors work will help you keep them from taking over your ab exercises. Read: Hip Flexors vs Abs.

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January 18, 2009 at 7:04 am
(1) Lesley Powell says:

Great article. I find the spine corrector a great tool to get people to initiate the roll of the spine through the core. Especially when people are tight and weak in the core, they compensate with the hip flexors.

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