Taming the MOST HATED Muscle in the Body: The Psoas

Over 600 muscles in the human body and each one can experience strain, pain or injury and radiate problems to surrounding musculature and joints. Yet none has quite the impact of the psoas. This single muscle sits at the very center of the body and it's dysfunction is capable of altering the biomechanics of the entire body. In fact, it's so pivotal to posture and movement that one can't even stand in a neutral and healthy position without a sound and functional psoas. This video covers the functions of the psoas, including some controversy over it's primary purpose, as well as how to train the psoas for function, performance and health.

#psoas #posture #backpain #lowbackpain #coretraining #hippain

[davidec.]

Bro the arms of the spine illustration is equally genius and unsettling

[RollinBoy]

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).

[beefcake]

The art in this video is fucking phenominal

[dongleyliam]

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

[Atlas_]

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

[appasbiggestfan]

The art on this channel is seriously so illuminating, it’s always perfectly demonstrating what you’re saying and having the imagery really helps it stick in my brain, thank you

[ari]

that reverse curl analogy was amazing and really helped my understanding

[noh]

Understanding that the psoas has two parts solved my asymmetrical psoas strength and other related problems for five years in ten seconds.

[alexmarriott]

I've been having pain in this area of my body for the longest time without being able to identify why. Thank you so much my friend.

[imjustmekai]

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

[jaydnhughes]

It sucks how fragile people can be. Someone could be perfectly healthy but just walk or stand incorrectly their whole life and it causes a problem later on.

[tenniszerg]

You've combined so many of my interests (art, anatomy, biomechanics, Chinese martial arts, yoga) into one video while also teaching me how to tame my hip issues. This channel is the best, thank you!

[TexasRedOutlaw]

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.

[bendawson]

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

[michaelvanmastrigt]

I suffered from low back fatigue, tightness, soreness, aches, muscle spasms, the whole nine for years. I bought an inversion table and began using that regularly. I saw 2 or 3 different chiropractors over a period of years as well. All gave me partial or temporary relief here and there but the problem never fully went away.
A few months ago (maybe 3) I began floor sleeping every night. This has COMPLETELY solved my problem 100%. While it’s by no means a perfect solution as my wife sleeps on the bed, it has been life changing for me as my chronic back problems are gone

If you haven’t tried it yet, give it a try. It will take a few nights to become accustomed to the hard floor but you’ll quickly get used to it

[pranakhan]

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

[Alex-ckin]

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) 😂

[barefoot]

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

[pedrogabrielribeiro]

1:10 perfect analogy, took me hours of reading a textbook to get that same insight and you explained it in less than ten seconds.

[-Wust-]

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