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DM #522

Friday, October 27th, 2017

DM #522: Your hip flexor, as the name implies, is designed to primarily flex the hip. Lack the proper reflexive core stability and suddenly that hip flexor becomes a spinal stabilizer, and clunking becomes a regular part of your life.
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Posted a video earlier today about that clunk, and figured it warranted its own DM based on the incredible number of comments it received. What I wanna chat about briefly is the fact that in order to get rid of that clunking, you need to figure out ways to regress the exercise in question so that you don't clunk while you do it!
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Working on core stability is how you're gonna get rid of the clunk (because proximal stability allows for distal mobility), but if the stability drill is so challenging that you're clunking, you're basically just using your hip flexor and reinforcing less than ideal patterns.
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Go slower, support the legs, use one leg at a time, allow the arms to help the core better contract, WHATEVER, just make sure that you're actually working on what you're trying to work on.
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Like the video stated, the clunk tends to come from the hip flexor being unable to relax at the appropriate speed/time, and therefore snapping over a boney prominence on the pelvics (the iliopectineal eminence). When the “core” does it's job, the hip flexor can do its job and now instead of staying tight to protect the spine, it can lengthen eccentrically to lower the leg/move the hip. Proximal stability…distal mobility.
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So, take-home: if you want to stop clunking, make sure you're not clunking when you exercise ?. Stay tuned for some video suggestions on just what the heck I'm talking about.
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