Taming the MOST HATED Muscle in the Body: The Psoas 

You’re the best, man! 💪🏻💪🏻

Psoas I was saying -

Another thing you can do to fix the Psoas (and a whole heap of other issues) is walking lunges. They not only stretch the Psoas but also strengthen it, lunges also rebalance the hips when muscles in the area are out of balance. There’s a Men’s fitness model guy named Craig Gregory and he’s a big proponent for daily 400m walking lunges (if you can’t go outdoors, do reverse lunges on the spot for 15 minutes) he does them for general fitness, wellbeing, fat loss etc it’s the only lower body exercise I do these days, helped heal my knee, a click in my hip, really increased my hip flexibility, weight loss, posture, core etc, after a while you’d be surprised at how athletically explosive you are cause walking lunges simulate an athletic position over and over. The great thing about them is you can take your time, go fast, go slow, just don’t stop for 15 min (obviously work o to it).

If you squat too heavy you'll have a Psoas.

5:16 what your here for

that reverse curl analogy was amazing and really helped my understanding

Psoas doing a reverse curl animation just got you a subscriber. What an ingenious way to describe the function of this muscle. 👍👍

Man I love these videos. They really make you realise what a miracle the human body is (and all the ways I've been letting mine down) 😂

This is next level, in terms of both art and articulation of concept. Excellent job, I'm happy to share this

I love the examples from yoga and Chinese martial arts. So interesting to see them side by side.

Did I just find the best muscle anatomy channel on youtube?

Literally the best educational video I’ve ever seen in my life!

One of my favorite channels. Not only do I love the info but I also love how y’all draw everything out and give more depth. I find it more intriguing and easier to understand. And there’s really no one else with this kind of style

Ok I just wrote a massive comment and my laptop shut down so I lost it so I'll just shorten this comment. *MOVER'S ODYSSEY* WHERE THE HECK WERE YOU I'VE BEEN SUBSCRIBED FOR AGES AND NEEDED THIS ADVICE. 3:25 This is the exact reason I ended up with functional scoliosis. But no matter how much I searched it all comes up with "no known cause". I injured my lower-back 1, 2, 3 times. And on my 4th ended up with functional scoliosis. This was because of hurting my tailbone, ending up with weak psoas, postier-pelvic tilt. Tight back from deadlifting getting worse over-time without even exercising. Then Squats and because of an imbalance in my psoas and other muscles on my 4th and most recent injury I ended up with functional scoliosis of 27 degrees. Went to 2 other physiotherapists. First just did back massaging, acupuncture, simple stretches. Didn't help much. Second just did simple bodyweight strengthening of muscles around my lower-back (e.g. legs, hip flexors, etc.). Didn't help much except a diaphragm exercise I got with a balloon. Third and most recent, a physiotherapist who focuses on functional mobility and is actually similar to your channel. Who's been helping me train my posture, my legs, back, all to have good posture and a stronger support base. It's made my back way straighter. No more pain but sometimes I do because I don't do my exercises enough because they're kinda hard. But never heard about psoas, this is literally the exact reason I have my problem. I haven't been able to box, or weight lift. At my lowest I couldn't walk or run without very bad pain. PLEASE make more videos on this. You'll be surprised how many people have this back problem. Two of my close friends have functional (not structural) scoliosis or hip-hike from muscle imbalances, past injuries, etc. I do see most people with an anterior pelvic-tilt or posterior pelvic-tilt. These exercises would go a long way.

Literally the video I needed to see

Goated video. I’ve been doing my research on this for a while. Thank you brother.

As a female this seems to be an issue we deal with a lot! It causes terrible cramps. For a long time I thought it was digestive or cramps. Releasing the psoas resloves this issue for me 90% of the time. I wish I knew about it sooner. As usual, great content and such a pleasure to watch the drawings

Thanks for bringing the content that's so important to overall health!!! You're awesome 💯🔥

Top notch content as always man, thank you! Will insert some of those exercises into my APT recovery routine.

Appreciate your videos man, learning about different exercises I didn't know about that can actually help longevity in the way too. Thanks 🙏🏿

Your videos are dope man…what a way to combine your art and bodywork knowledge

Love the anatomy explained and drawn! Amazing work! Thank you so much!

A couple of your videos helped me put my mind to making a change. Thank you bro

Thanks for the psoa releasing tip

2 more exercises that can help strengthen and better connect to the psoas are... 1. Walking lunges but with the intention of dragging the back leg, put a slider under your foot and as you stand pull the back leg back towards you. 2. Sandbags carries. Hugging a sandbags against your abs is a great way to create the right tension for proper walking mechanics and work the psoas

The visualisations you make for these videos are incredibly powerful, they really change my perspective on how my muscles function to the point where in some cases, it feels like by using this visualisation while activating the muscle, I'm actually 100% using it for the first time in my life, just because I'm trying a range of motion that didn't occur to me that the muscle could do.

Superb presentations. Appreciate your time and energy on these, my friend.

Thanks! Your videos are outstanding. I learn so much and there's so much solid information that I have to watch them two or three times and even take notes to absorb it all. Thanks again.

Wow thank you for such high Quality paintings and whole video

This is the coolest video I've ever seen! The pictures, music, voice.. fantastic

This channel is phenomenal

Wow this is exactly what I needed to know. Thank you sooooo much!!!

Thank you, this is the best and most easily understood psoas explanation I have seen.

Thank you for making this content! I have severe back pain that has troubled me for years!

I have had every symptom listed and started sitting on a yoga ball which was helpful but I'm looking fwd to implementing everything in this video thank you.

Very awesome video. Detailed and cool drawings

Best video on RU-vids. You hit all of the major points and you really know your psoas

The production quality is top notch, thank you

Please make a video on upper back and posture correction. The world needs it🙏

Awesome video on the psoas. One of the more confusing muscles to learn about for me. Learned a lot of new information in this video.

Probably my favorite channel on RU-vid. Please NEVER stop making content

The best explanation for psoas was to make it look like arms doing a curl that was greattttt

The animations / illustration in this video is gorgeous btw

Dude I love these videos great job brother

Love the art in these videos.

Those hips got me acting the wrong way.

Bro I just discovered this channel! Wtf!! These videos are gold bro!! The editing-drawing style is really nice and informative🔥🔥

Another great one ❤

Thanks man my lower back pain this makes a lot of sense now I was wondering why this video popped up had to watch it.

Excellent analysis

Beautiful illustrations

Was a back patient for a decade. Kettlebellswings made my back the strongest part of my body

Awesome video. My psoas has been suffering from my desk job and I just finished a tai chi class that really improved my muscle awareness.

Amazing content, keep it up ❤

Very informative. Thanks!

Love your existence, thank you so much

Nice video keep up the good work CHAMP 🏆👑

Fantastic content❤

Need more of your content, bro. Seriously

As always, superior quality video! Keep it up :-)

AMAZING video. The better illustration about PSOAS I've ever seen. Will surely be conscious about my walking, engaging the core EDIT: just walked today consciously starting the movement from the psoas (core/waist) and felt how under used they were, specially my left one. Felt a little tiring because of how long I'm walking engaging the legs first, having even leg and hips unbalanced. I already started feeling more "flow" in my walking. Will keep on updating.

Great video! I learned a lot.

Thanks for the video ❤

Good job. Thanks for sharing. You could have put more detail into what to do for the psoas, you kind of worked around the issue.

100% psoas cured thanks to this video and passed on ancient martial arts psoas wisdoms that explain humanities bad backs, necks, hip, knees, feet .... amazing cartoons too !

Very well made.

Very good video. First time watching your content. I like it !

Feel like I just got a peek into the galaxy of physical development…I love when learning something knew makes me feel like I never knew anything lol

I could cry. This is the first time I have ever felt release from scoliosis because of this video. Even with 4000 of treatment. Thank you so much I am forever grateful.

Thankyou..God bless you your family and everyone on earth

The most hated? I would like to introduce: Quadratus Lumborum.

Awesome Video!!!!!

Very helpful thank you!

thanks for the video

these have been wanting attention for some time. over here the thing that has healed the most is through use of the Gong Bu and the dantian breathing 😊 good luck out there

6:43 and 7:39 the exercises for reference.

Your videos are so awesome amn

Those videos are great! They're enjoyable and educational. Best fitness vids on RU-vid, by some margin, if you ask me.

Damn this is great! How come I have only just got introduced to your channel?!

The Psoas is responsible for all the grief my body has undergone in my life.

Kettle bell handles work wonders!!😊

Your channel is so fucking premium

The sketch graphics are so cool.

Excellent as always 🙏. Liked and commented for the algorithm.

I love ALL your videos but this one in particular was 🤯

Great video

Your vids always come at the most appropriate time. How the hell do you do it

Bro best legendary demonstration ❤

This is exactly the problem I'm dealing with and I haven't heard it described more clearly. This has been hindering my boxing training!

excellent, thanks so much!

Great video bud 👍

Here after I took a long walk and now I can barely walk from the pain and temporarily can’t stand upright

Great stuff! Matt the pilates teacher

Bridging also works

Had no clue this was so vital. I got stabbed in the Psoas/surrounding muscle/tissue about 4 years ago. Didnt do physical therapy. Dude😕

very good video thank you

Great content and beautiful illustrations, thank you! Could you explain more on why the inhuinal line/ hip crease is a dangerous zone for psosas release?

Babe wake up🗣🗣

The best example of training psoas is so beneficial is me I was overweight and I always had pain near me coccyx pain above the waist on right side but after deadlifting for 1 month 3 days a week I have zeroooooo pain in any part of my body these are same problems which people get with age

Wow thank you for this helpfull video. I figured to learn to do a back bend and mauy thai to train all the muscles around the hip roling side to side fast It’s going really well. Thanks again.