Hip Flexor Muscles Used in Sports Training
There are 7 hip flexor muscles on each side of the body and they are prominent in nearly all sports activities, such as running, kicking, jumping and play a role in swinging a bat, golf club or tennis racket. Before we identify them, it might be helpful for some of you if we also refer to them as thigh flexor muscles. This is because it may be easier to visualize the movement of the thigh at the hip joint rather than trying to figure out what is taking place deep inside the hip joint itself. With that in mind, the first two muscles, the psoas and iliacus, are perhaps the more popular ones as they are heavily involved with doing situps and hanging knee raises. Sometimes these two muscles are referred to as the iliopsoas since the muscle belly of the psoas and the muscle belly of the Iliacus converge together and form one common tendon of insertion. The next two muscles, the Sartorius and Rectus Femoris are the longest of all of the hip flexors, or thigh flexors,