Taming the MOST HATED Muscle in the Body: The Psoas
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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
Bro the arms of the spine illustration is equally genius and unsettling
Yeah that was 1980’s practical effects horror level unsettling
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Perfect comment
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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).
Good to know!
Lunges are crazy good. I really based my training on them for about 5 weeks. I started to feel like i am flying while walking. But they are not fancy so people dont talk about them.
I find them better than squats for building muscle too.
Would reverse lunges work or it has to be walking forward?
@@NaruteetheFodderPianist first comment said that u can do reverse lunges for 15 min
You’re the best, man! 💪🏻💪🏻
You're pretty good also...
Wassup Bioneer!
Wow, look who is here! Watched some of your videos earlier today :)
How's your back doing bro?
Damn bioneer out here too?
Psoas I was saying -
Psoas to not leave you confused.
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Did I just find the best muscle anatomy channel on youtube?
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Indeed you have.
wow, just got it in my recommended ... indeed excellent
I'm also rly impressed with the detail, great work
I think so
The art in this video is fucking phenominal
The incremental art layering is so satisfying and aesthetically pleasing.
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
I love the art
that reverse curl analogy was amazing and really helped my understanding
Glad it helped out! It was how I had to imagine in in the beginning to really start engaging my psoas during hip flexion.
Why is it a reverse curl and not just a curl? What do mean by reverse curl
@@SoulDelSol Just the position of the hand. The regular curl you grab the bar with palms up and in a reverse curl you grab it with palms down. The psoas attaches to the inner thigh so I had to show it with a palm down grip in order for a hand to get ahold of the inner thigh.
Was thinking the same, haha
I have severe injuries to this muscle and have been trying to rehabilitate it forever. It’s not this simple
If you squat too heavy you'll have a Psoas.
keep your day job
Ba dum tss
Good thing or bad thing to squat heavy?
sore ass 😧
@@elvistolentino.8047you’ll have a sore ass
The visual graphics and art really increased my understanding of the different functions of the muscles and the great references to other techniques and traditions is a fantastic way of building a holistic understanding and outlook on the body, excellent video!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the comment.
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.
It's always been the same for me. Creative and informed infographic material always helped my mind interface with my body better. A lot of people exercise without ever even realizing they have a poor mind to body connection and far less control than they should have. I'm glad you're enjoying the content!
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) 😂
Miracle? No, not in this cursed Life. It's a diseased DISASTER if you were paying attention.
@@squirelova1815lol what
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@@squirelova1815settle down and go to the gym
@@brandonwood3442 I have "settled down" into FDNY Board Certified Total Disability so, yeah, just getting back and forth from the toilet is plenty of "gym" for me even after years of Physical Therapy and Orthopedic Chiropractic sessions too that I was later told would not have "cured" me anyhow.
I'm so impressed with the illustrations. they convey so much more information than just saying it. the detail is so very appreciated.
This is next level, in terms of both art and articulation of concept. Excellent job, I'm happy to share this
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for sharing!
TRUTH. This video is the shizz... those animations should have been in play for every demonstration video, ever. Like WTF, it takes until 2024 for someone to finally implement such an ingenious feature?!
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
awesome channel, animations are so cool
i was having real bad lumbar pain and tightness, started to stretch on my own two months ago in a yoga-like way, and have been getting some relief. after seeing this channel, i'm nearly 100% positive it's a psoas tightness problem, and am excited to better target it with these recommendations
Glad it helped out, good luck with your training!
This video is insanely slick, well animated and explained. I royally screwed my left psoas when I was about 7 years old. I heard a loud pop and spasms of pain for the next few days meaning I was unable to walk. It was only about 10 years later I went to see a specialist and they told me I had a large amount of scar tissue around my psoas, and that my injury had also ruined my other psoas as my body had tried to compensate.
To this day, any hip exercise is pretty unpleasant and my hips grind whenever I do them. I have to pop my hips several times per day to release tension. I do find runner's stretch helps a lot, along with a good amount of yoga!
these animations are so well done this channel's content is beautiful
Your mention of the psoas-diaphragm connection was the most incredible AHA experience I had since years ago! THANK. YOU. SO. MUCH. for this video!!!
I hope it helps out! The hip hike posture gets even more in depth, but in my experience the psoas is the most important element.
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.
Well duh, that is why good posture is important.
@@AaronYeomans-u2r you can have good posture and your feet can still do a lot of damage to the rest of the body..and what's the proper posture for walking?
By default, not healthy.
I just think functional activity is so inspiring, actually...like this gives me so much hope for us to actually live better longer...look up how to fix these issues...squat university for example...it's wonderful! Chiropractic and physical therapy can be amazing!
@@ashleybryant305 yeah I know what you mean I guess
I love the examples from yoga and Chinese martial arts. So interesting to see them side by side.
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
Side lying or back?
I move around a lot while sleeping. I start on my side to fall asleep but later end up on my stomach. Stomach sleeping on a mattress causes problems for my lower back. However stomach sleeping on the floor does not cause any ill effects or pain or etc and I can’t believe it took me this long to figure it out. Just my own experience though.
I also sleep on my stomach and whenever I start feeling these pains my solution is to sleep on the floor. I recently tried getting a new mattress that is medium firmness and it helped a bit but I think I probably need a mattress that is extra firm. So to anyone with a similar experience who wants to still sleep on a mattress, maybe try an extra firm mattress if your spouse is cool with it.
I had constant lower back issues for decades. Tried the same things as you. 3.5 years ago I got my hands on some thc edibles and they helped me too feel my body. I discovered that my psoas was tight on one side. I started stretching them with a lunge while also rapidly flexing the same side glute. I got some immediate relief and after daily stretching for a few weeks my back pain and tightness receded to almost zero. I think tight muscles might be a cause of disk degeneration.
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.
Literally the best educational video I’ve ever seen in my life!
that walk with your hips first tip just changed everything for me!!! I instantly noticed the difference. I was a bodybuilder previously and it's been very hard ot break the rigidness I grew used to from being too big and not flexible enough as well as the movements we use are typically more rigid than yoga type movements.Glad I've left that part of my life behind but it taught me a lot!
Glad it helped out! Weight lifting, as helpful as it can be, is often terrible for healthy movement. Bodybuilding especially seems to be the healthy movement killer. Though I have seen a lot of people trying to create forms of functional bodybuilding that take care of the problem. Guess we'll see if it works out.
Barbell training stiffens up my movements, too. Many people related barbell weight training to injury prevention via strength. While i get stronger, the stiffness makes me more injury prone as my mobility slowly becomes arrested.
For mechanical health, there's no replacement for a lot of random, variable, natural movements such as sensible physical labor.
Necessary range of motion beats unnecessary strength at the cost of range of motion, no question.
Probably my favorite channel on TH-cam. Please NEVER stop making content
Highly unlikely. Entropy entails that the entirety of the universe slowly falls apart. This channel and all you know of will end up in void and utter emptiness. Even light and time will end👍
@@jonber9411 Then what happens? 🤣
@@hareeba5879 There will be no 'Then'
Time ends. 'Then' is a reference to time 👌
@@jonber9411 Thanks for the correction .
Thank you.
This video is beautiful and (more importantly) has answered everything I needed to know about my hip / lower back discomfort.
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.
Glad it helped!
This video illuminates a lot of tips that I've heard before, such as when walking to "lead with your hips." Very useful info here! Thanks!!
Thank you for these amazingly styled videos. Very creative and great artwork. As a LMT and muscle nerd, these videos are very informative and entertaining.
Please make a video on upper back and posture correction.
The world needs it🙏
I think athleanx covered that a while back in the anterior pelvic tilt video.
I really think this is my problem!! Omg it makes sense that popping my back does nothing, but lying on my back with my legs pulled up, slowly letting them down as someone pushes right about my belly button feels like it releases something and I can walk tall again (shown at 5:49 I believe) Man I hope I'm right!!
Try out one of these psoas release techniques and see how it treats you. A lot of back problems are actually psoas problems, probably upwards of 40-50% of the back issues that I see in the clinic.
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
These are great exercises. Sliding lunges destroyed me the first time I tried them, but it exposed some mobility and strength problems for sure.
@@moversodysseyhow did you know I needed this my hip started hurting last week thank you🙏🏿🙏🏿
@@Theoriginalace-cy4dr This whole video was just for you my man. Lol
@@moversodyssey Synchronicity back at it again.
@@moversodysseyI just wanna thank you for your very helpful training videos 🙏🌤⛩
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I’m impressed. This was a lot clearer than some explanations I’ve heard. I’ve been working on getting rid of pain in this area, and have made progress with my trainer and videos like this one. Thanks!
A couple of your videos helped me put my mind to making a change. Thank you bro
I'm glad you found some value in the content, it makes all the effort worth it when I know it's helping.
So I had a whole list of issues with my body, tight cracking hips, right hip impingement, lower back stiffness and pain, and knee pain when squating. Very tight shoulders and traps and mild pain. Golfers and tennis elbow in both arms plus much more. I recently tried a psoas strengthening routine from TH-cam channel Iamlonggevity, and it has completely changed more body. My shoulders feel so good now. My lowerback feels great. Im waking up in the morning with a spring in my step. elbows feel great now. It's honestly been a revaluation. I've been dealing with these issues for a decade and all i had to do was some psaoa work. The routine is very different from what you prescribe, though, and one exercise in particular i feel did it for me is one where you are in push up position and do donkey kick backs with straight legs on an angle. It works the back of the psoas.
Best video on TH-cams. You hit all of the major points and you really know your psoas
I'm recovering from being in a coma. Everything fkng hurts. I'm so glad I found this video and channel. Subbed for sure!
Look into healing frequencys. I survived a 130 mph rollover. Did lots of physical therapy, then got MS and decided to try things I had heard about. I've had great results with just youtube crystal singing bowl videos.
@@marcussmart3275 Thanks, I'll look it up. If life has taught me anything, it's that everything deserves a try if there's nothing to lose.
Don't do what the commentator above me said they're a complete imbecile. The only thing you need to do is get moving again, slow steps at a time never overdoing it. Lots of physio, building up until hopefully you can do resistance training
Thank you for making this content! I have severe back pain that has troubled me for years!
Hope it helps, best of luck!
Wow, thank you for this video. I have had problem with my lower back forever. I had things that helped but for the first time I think I understand it. I have watched so many videos about lower back pain, fitness, working out etc and this is the first time I have ever heard anyone even mention the Psoas.
Thats crazy. It's not the only muscle that contributes to back pain, but it's so common and I can't understand why no one mentions it.
another piece of the puzzle. thanks, brother.
Love the anatomy explained and drawn! Amazing work! Thank you so much!
No problem, thanks for the comment!
As always, excellent information and graphics.
Literally the video I needed to see
spectacular!! many thanks to you all 😊
Your videos are dope man…what a way to combine your art and bodywork knowledge
Your art, articulation makes visual thinking the muscles so easily. Fabulous work thank you!!
I'm glad it helps out, thanks for the comment!
Goated video. I’ve been doing my research on this for a while. Thank you brother.
Wow this was an instant sub for me, great find, cheers!
Top notch content as always man, thank you! Will insert some of those exercises into my APT recovery routine.
I use a lot of your videos to teach my joes about physical fitness. Your simple, to the point but also illustrative videos have improved my teams fitness scores.
That's awesome to hear, I'm humbled you find that much use in the videos. I'll keep in mind I have military watching when I make future videos.
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
How do you rrlease it?
This is top notch information presented in a professional manner, and the sketches are amazing. Bravo!
Excellent, the graphics are so helpful. Thanks a lot.
this is actually such a life saver. I have scoliosis that just randomly developed, hip pain, and as a result due to being a baseball player elbow pain. Im hoping this can help me because all of these issues were so sudden and its been a battle to get through them.
Usually this creeps in over time and once a hiked hip gets about half an inch above the other side or the functional scoliosis starts to get around 10 degrees of curve, the symptoms start up quickly. Releasing the psoas will help a lot, but if it's been going on awhile you will probably have other muscles that are out of whack as well. The next most important after the psoas is usually the glute medius. It's usually really weak on the high side of the pelvis and really tight on the low side. Give it a shot and let me know if it helps out.
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.
Glad you're enjoying them! Thanks for commenting!
Thank you, this is the best and most easily understood psoas explanation I have seen.
Love your existence, thank you so much
The graphics and drawings on your videos are so cool! Kudos to the artist
Thank you, Glad you're enjoying them!
Superb presentations. Appreciate your time and energy on these, my friend.
Thank you kindly!
Psoas doing a reverse curl animation just got you a subscriber. What an ingenious way to describe the function of this muscle. 👍👍
That part gave me attack on titan vibes
The best explanation for psoas was to make it look like arms doing a curl that was greattttt
Thanks for the psoa releasing tip
Thanks for bringing the content that's so important to overall health!!!
You're awesome 💯🔥
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.
Best most in depth video of the psoas man respect ❤
Was a back patient for a decade. Kettlebellswings made my back the strongest part of my body
Just made a similar comment. You’re so right. I just started doing them about a month ago and I feel great (and exhausted) after doing them. My hips and core feel completely balanced out and limber when I’m done as well.
😮Could you tell me details or a link? Like how long how often how heavy
@@daveschnee9249 Dude, just look up kettlebell swings on youtube with your desired specifics. It's not that hard.
@@daveschnee9249 first go see a good coach who can teach you the right technique ( hardstyle swing). Once you mastered that look into the " greasing the groove princeple ".
These videos cut through the enormity of crap out there - they're informative, clear, and very useful. It took me years to discover my psoas was the source of my lumbar issues, and so many PTs and osteopaths told me to stretch rather than strengthen. I wish I'd seen this video years ago. Might I be able to request a video on the lower traps - another area, which is little understood and is important in modern day posture. Also the soleus would be great! Thanks again
Glad it was helpful! And thank you for the suggestions. Soleus and lower traps are certainly among the more dysfunctional muscles I often see. Might just do a video on common issues of the scapula and toss pec minor and the rotator cuff muscles in with the lower traps.
Thank you for another amazing video
Bro I just discovered this channel! Wtf!!
These videos are gold bro!! The editing-drawing style is really nice and informative🔥🔥
Nice video keep up the good work CHAMP 🏆👑
Thankyou..God bless you your family and everyone on earth
this video deserves over a billion of views
The explanation, drawing, information, tips and examples in this video is brilliant. Refreshing to see content like this. Completely forgot about this muscle.
Another great one ❤
The animations / illustration in this video is gorgeous btw
Amazing content, keep it up ❤
Love the illustrations, great video. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 I’ve avoided lots of psoas strengthening exercises for many years because I have hip snapping and pain when I do them. I didn’t realize that was abnormal 😂 until TH-cam videos clued me in recently. I have lots of work to do… I’m just focusing on core stabilization for now, gradually working towards gentle hip flexor work. It’s pretty messed up.
Usually means the pelvis is out of position when you're doing the exercises. Could be falling into some anterior pelvic tilt or the psoas may just be really tight. Hope you get it worked out, good luck
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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
Excellent analysis
Love the art in these videos.
Very awesome video. Detailed and cool drawings
These drawings and animations are amazing.
Fantastic content❤
Incredibly clear explanation and instruction. Thank you 🌸
Very good video. First time watching your content. I like it !
Welcome to the channel, happy to have you as a viewer!
Love your videos man! I usually watch each one 2-3 times to fully absorb it all haha. Keep em coming!
Very helpful thank you!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Great vid. Liked. Training Psoas and TA is a great way to stay injury free and improve in other movements
Those hips got me acting the wrong way.
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x-ray shot 😩😩!!
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Wow this is exactly what I needed to know. Thank you sooooo much!!!
Need more of your content, bro. Seriously
Very well done sir!
Very informative. Thanks!
So much excellent information 💜
I feel people like this man need to start teaching in medical universities
Istg such a wonderful explanation !!
So true! The world need better teachers
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.
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.
Yea, the video was getting too long towards the end so I tried wrapping it up. Probably a bad section to gloss over though.