Exercise
Couch Stretch
Place your knee on a couch or elevated surface and fold your torso forward to intensely stretch the hip flexor. Keep your hips level and avoid excessive arching of the lower back.
Also called: Wall Couch Stretch, Rear Foot Elevated Hip Flexor Stretch · Equipment: stretching
How to do it
Step by step
- Position a couch or elevated surface behind you and kneel on it with one leg.
- Keep your other leg in front of you with foot on the ground.
- Slowly fold your torso forward while pressing your hips toward the ground.
- Feel the intense stretch along the front of the hip of the elevated leg.
- Hold for 30-60 seconds and repeat on the opposite side.
Muscles worked
What it trains
Mainly Hip Flexors, Quadriceps.
Programming
What the research says
Alternatives · VALDA FLEX
Swap it mid-workout
- Hip 90/90
- Scorpion Stretch
- World's Greatest Stretch
- Deep Squat Hold
- Hip Flexor Stretch
- Standing Quad Stretch
With VALDA Pro, FLEX offers alternatives like these when you swap an exercise mid-workout.
Log the couch stretch in VALDA, with these cues one tap away while you train and your history for it in one place.
General information about exercise technique, not medical advice. If you have an injury or a health condition, your healthcare provider is the right person to ask.