Strecth It Like You Mean It: 5 Tips to Improve Your Lumbar Flexibility

Are you tired of feeling like your lumbar region is made of lead?

Here's the deal, folks, we've all been there. But fear not! With these five tips, you too can become a limber ninja.

Tip 1: The Psoas Major Psoas Minor Psoas Psoa

Engage your transversus abdominis. No, not that. Engage your psoas major. Not that either. Engage the one in between, the one that's like, 'Hey, I'm not doing anything.'

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Tip 2: The Lumbar Lord of the Flies

Find a fly, and then find your lumbar lordosis. Now, stretch that thing like you're trying to get your fly back from that one pesky spider.

Read on for more Lordly Stretching

Tip 3: Cat-Cow Frenzy

Get down on the floor, and get into the cat-cow position. Now, imagine you're a cat with a cow in your stomach. Frenzy, indeed.

Cat-cow for more stretching

Tip 4: Psoas Minor Stretching

Now, this is the easy one. Just stretch the psoas minor, the one that's not major. Easy peasy. (Just kidding, it's still hard.)

Psoas Minor for the win

Tip 5: Pelvic Tilt

Get your pelvis in the game. Tilt it like you're trying to get that last piece of pizza off the counter.

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