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Stiff when you stand up? It is not your age

The stiffness you feel standing up is not age. It is arithmetic. Muscles adapt to the length you keep them at. Sit for most of a working day and the hip flexors, the psoas and iliacus running from your lower spine to the top of your thigh, spend those hours in a shortened position. They get comfortable there. Prolonged sitting is linked with measurably less hip extension, which is the range you need to actually stand up straight. The fix is unglamorous and it is thirty seconds a side. How to do it properly, because most people do the front half and skip the part that matters: kneel on one knee, front foot flat. Now tuck your tailbone under and squeeze the glute on the kneeling side. That tuck is the whole stretch. Without it you are just arching your lower back and feeling something that is not your hip flexor. Thirty seconds is the evidence-based minimum. Sixty seconds was not better than thirty in the foundational work, so you are not missing out by keeping it short. Most people give up around forty five seconds anyway, which is fine. Do it once, on the floor, before you pick your phone up.