But combine weak glutes
with tight hip flexors and tight hamstrings from sitting down most of the day, and when it comes time to drop it like a squat: it's more like a glute fizzle than the bonfire you'd hoped for.
Studies have shown that dogs with looser hips (excessive hip laxity) are at higher risk to develop hip dysplasia than
dogs with tighter hips (minimal hip laxity).
Exercising with tight hips can easily lead to knee pain caused by overcompensation, while improving your hip mobility can help you fully engage your posterior chain in squats, deadlifts and kettlebell swings and significantly improve your overall performance.
In addition to an improvement in your flexibility, aches and pains will start to disappear, which is often
associated with tight hips, lower back, and rounded shoulders from sitting long hours at a desk.
With tight hip flexors, generally comes weak lower abdominals and conversely, the muscles on the opposite side, the lower lumbar muscles and the glutes get weakened and can't do what they are meant to do.
However, if you are among
those with tight hips, then you are bound to hate those postures practice in a yoga class.
Combine
this with a tight Hip Flexor and you've got yourself a game a muscular tug of war and no matter who wins, you're lower back loses.
For those of
us with tight hips (including yours truly), these pushy muscles like to hijack ab exercises.