Hip Flexor Stretch Benefits. Strong hip flexors can improve speed explosiveness and even increase your squat max. This exercise will increase the extensibility of the adductor muscles.
This mobility exercise combines a passive stretch and an active stretch for the hip adductors inside legs. Hip flexors aid in lower body movements. The stretch is typically felt deep into the front of your hip.
Yoga can help relax these flexors.
Strengthening and increasing hip flexor flexibility can also increase performance. It is recommended that you hold this stretch 20 30 seconds and repeat 2 3 times a day. Yoga can help relax these flexors. For example one study found athletes who did hip flexor exercises as part of their routine both improved their hip flexion strength by 12 2 percent and cut their run times by as much as 9 percent.