{"id":769,"date":"2014-04-08T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2014-04-08T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T14:23:10","slug":"kneeling-lunge-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/kneeling-lunge-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kneeling Lunge Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Collage-34fitted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-770\" alt=\"Collage (34)fitted\" src=\"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Collage-34fitted-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Collage-34fitted-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Collage-34fitted-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Collage-34fitted.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hip flexors are a bit tricky in that they tend to be really tight or really loose. Either scenario can produce posture imbalances and or back pain. A dead giveaway that you have tight hip flexors is that you have a <i>Donald Duck<\/i> posture in your hips i.e. your butt sticks out excessively. On the other hand if you have a <i>Pink Panther<\/i> type posture where your hips project forward in relation to your shoulders you most likely will have loose hip flexors. If you perform the lunge stretch with proper form and do not feel the stretch deep in the groin area you may have loose hip flexors and will need to go to maintenance mode with the lunge stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hip flexors are a bit tricky in that they tend to be really tight or really loose. Either scenario can produce posture imbalances and or back pain. A dead giveaway that you have tight hip flexors is that you have a Donald Duck posture in your hips i.e. your butt sticks out excessively. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}