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How to Fix Tight Hips (WITHOUT STRETCHING!)

Balance Body Alignment Secrets That Supercharge Your Mind and Body

Master Balance Body Alignment to Unlock Focus, Strength, and Flow

🧍‍♂️ Your Posture Is Your Power Source

Before I learned anything about business, marketing, or mindset, I had no clue my posture was quietly wrecking my energy, sleep, and focus. I thought I was just tired. Stressed. Normal. My body was out of Alignment, which threw everything off. Once I fixed it, everything changed. If your spine is fighting gravity all day, your brain can’t focus, your lungs can’t expand, and your stress skyrockets. This is why balanced body alignment isn’t just for yoga freaks. It’s a weapon for high performers.

⚖️ Alignment Isn’t a Stretch, It’s a System

I used to think body alignment meant stretching in the morning or sitting up straight for 30 minutes. That’s a joke. Accurate balance body alignment is a system: how you move, how you sit, how you breathe, how your joints stack when you walk, and how your muscles balance across your frame. Once I started focusing on the way my body functioned, not just how it looked, I noticed insane gains in my energy, clarity, and even creativity. When your frame is in sync, your brain kicks into gear.

💥 You Can’t Scale If You’re In Pain

Real talk: I don’t care how many funnels, posts, or products you launch. You won’t scale anything if your back’s screaming or your neck’s locked. Chronic pain is a silent killer of momentum. One of the most underrated secrets of high-level entrepreneurs is that they invest in balanced body alignment: massage, chiropractic, functional mobility, and daily movement breaks. That’s not a luxury; it’s maintenance for the machine. I’ve built better businesses since building a better body.

🧠 Brain Fog Isn’t a Mental Problem

I thought I had ADHD. I’d lose focus after 20 minutes, forget stuff, and burn out by 2 p.m.- the usual. But the fog lifted like magic once I got my hips and shoulders aligned, fixed my posture, and did breathwork. No pills, no hacks. Just oxygen. Just flow. This is what balanced body alignment does. It doesn’t just clear your back; it clears your brain. It’s like getting a software update for your entire nervous system.

🔗 Link the Energy: Your Body Builds the Brand

This spoke links out to https://marketingviralvideo.info, where I’ll show you how a high-energy body powers on-camera charisma, better delivery, and performance that pops on video. Because here’s the truth: when your body’s aligned, your brand voice strengthens. You stand taller, speak clearly, and move with intent. It’s all connected. This is the bridge between health and hustle balance. Body alignment gives you the fuel to show up and win daily.

How to Fix Tight Hips (WITHOUT STRETCHING!)

What’s up, guys? Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com. Today, I’ve got Jesse with me, and we’ll show you what to do about tight hips. Often, guys will say, “Oh, my hips are so tight”, or they’ll even say, “My hip flexors are so tight, and I can’t squat”. Guys, it doesn’t make sense because at no point – yes, your hip flexors should be activated in the descent of the squat, actively pulling you down, but it’s not hip tightness. They’re not being stretched at the bottom of the squat. They’re getting more lax.

So, we want to fix somebody like Jesse, who has some tightness in his squat. Go ahead and squat down. He gets up, and he feels tightness. What’s causing that? I’m going to help you, guys. We’re going to go through three stages.

Stage 1: Look at Skeletal Factors

Number one: We will look at the non-Jesse, Raymond, over here to examine skeletal factors and things you can do immediately to fix your tightness.

Stage 2: Examine the Hip Capsule

The next thing we have to do is look inside the joint. Right around something we call the ‘hip capsule’. A lot of times, we don’t address this. This will have some mobility actions that we could do to try to get to the root of it. And then, if that doesn’t work, we tend to overlook some other things at the muscle level.

Stage 3: Address Muscle Activity and Stability

It’s not just about stretching the muscles. It’s about what the activity of those muscles is and what the stability of those muscles is, because if it’s not there, you’re going to get some compensation in other places that will be causing these tight hips. So, when stretching is not working, you’ve got to look into different areas. This video will help you finally get to the root of it. Many things could be causing that tightness and restriction, but we’ve got to start somewhere to figure it out. The easiest place to do that is to stay on the ground. No, you don’t have me to do this for you, but the good news is, you don’t need me to do this for you. You take your hip through three different ranges of motion.

Self-Check: Hip Flexion

You could do this yourself, again, by grabbing onto your knee and pulling up. Jesse has good flexion. He can get well past his waistline, and it doesn’t feel hard. You want to ensure it doesn’t feel like he’s running into a wall, but it has some bounciness.

Self-Check: Internal Rotation

The next thing to do is check internal rotation. Even though the foot is moving that way outward, the hip is going into internal rotation. You want to see how much rotation you can get here. 30 to 45 degrees would be great. Jesse’s got a good rotation. Again, you don’t need me to do that.

Self-Check: External Rotation

With external rotation here, we’re going in this direction. I’m looking to see if this lower leg can cross your waistline parallel to yours. Run east and west. Many of you may know that you’re having some restrictions here. Still, if you find this restriction hard and feel a restriction on internal rotation significantly, combined with some of this flexion limitation here, that would indicate that you’ve got some bony, arthritic changes.

Addressing External Rotation Limitations

That’s precisely what we find here with Jesse. His external rotation on this side is nowhere near getting to the waistline. He’s nowhere near parallel to his waist. He’s not running east to west. He’s lacking in external rotation. So, we need to figure out what’s happening here.

Simple Modifications for Squats

We will look at the skeleton in the easiest of changes because we know we can do some things, just with his posture and how he sets up for a squat, to help alleviate that and create more room. But if that persists, you’ve got to start looking deeper. You’ve got to start looking into the hip itself and the capsule, which we will do.

Dive Deeper: Hip Capsule and Muscles

Then, interestingly, looking at the muscles. But not just from stretching them out, how can we use the activation of that muscle, or the inactivation, that’s happening here, causing the tightness in the hip? So, I will explain step by step how to use the skeleton. All right, guys. Let’s begin anatomically here.

It’s the easiest thing. The thing you can do, just like this, is change position. But it helps to understand what’s happening inside your hips when you go to squat. One of the requirements is to get into hip flexion. That’s what a squat is. You’re getting into a deep hip flexion. You want to be at the proper depth. The first thing you can do to help yourself is realise that to get into flexion, you want to make sure you have external rotation because it will be easier to get deeper into flexion if you have external hip rotation.

Practical Tips for Improving Hip Mobility

If I were to take my hips and internally rotate them like this, then try to go into flexion, you can see I get limited in how high I can go. We get bony stops inside the acetabulum here, the ball and socket of the hip. That gets cleared substantially more when I externally rotate the hip, and I can keep going up here. That’s when you see kids get way down into a deep squat. You have to rotate the hip to get there externally. So, you’re doing yourself a favour if you realise that and set yourself up to do that.

So, the easiest way to set yourself up is twofold. Number one: you take a wider stance. If you go into a narrow stance squat, you’re already starting to cause some impingement in the hip here and the inability to get past this bony block. You can see it getting stuck. It’s getting stuck right here on the pelvis.

But if I take my leg out wider and go down there, I’ve cleared that. There’s a clearance here. Anatomically, I’ve created a better opportunity to get down. But then I could also turn my legs out a little bit. It’s a necessary part of squatting. We talk about it all the time, guys. If you want to squat effectively and adequately, turn your legs out. Not just your feet. Your feet don’t mean anything because you can turn down here and do some rotation of the tibia that won’t impact the hip. It’s about getting the entire leg turned out, keeping those knees over the toes, and that’s when you hear that because you want to keep the whole leg out. So now, when I go into that squat, I’ve got external rotation.

So, if you’re already having problems, let’s say you do this, but you still feel tight inside; we’ve got to move on to the next part.

Exploring the Hip Capsule

That is examining what is happening in the hip capsule at the head of the femur in the acetabulum. So if you’ve tried to make those skeletal modifications where you’ve opened up your hips, and you squat, and you’re still finding that you’ve got the tightness, and you can’t identify where it is, but you’ve got the tightness; you’ve got to start looking a little deeper inside the joint.

Again, when people start pressing here, it’s really because they can’t get to what’s bothering them. That’s the ball and socket joint. What they’re talking about there is the capsule. The surrounding ligaments and structures that hold the hip joint together. It’s like a series of seatbelts and straps, and it acts like this. If this is the ball and socket, if I have a tight capsule over the top, and you try to create movement – come on, Jesse. Get some movement. JESSE: It’s tight. JEFF: Right. So, the idea is that you’re limiting the freedom of motion here.

But if I could use this – the head of the femur here – as a mobility tool to create more space by pushing into these areas of tightness, so I loosened it, now all this freedom of motion is back. We want to…

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