Something wrong with my body

Seriously folks. I'm not the perfect beast of a woman you all think I am. Just kidding. of course I am. ;)

I have....Tight hip flexors....duh duh duh...

And they are the cause of every other thing that's wrong with me. My hip issues, my back pain, a flat butt, my tmj disorder, cracking knee joints, blisters on my feet, big legs, lower belly fat, greasy hair, circles under my eyes, poor work ethic, and tendancy to exaggerate. Seriously.

So what is tight hip flexors and what does it mean for you? well maybe nothing, but maybe something. If you experience any of the above symptoms (well up to the knee one, the rest hasn't been proven by science yet) you may also have tight hip flexors. Chances are you do. Know why? Cause most of you are women, most of you run, jog or walk regularly for exercise, and the big one that gave you away, you're on a computer. Apparently sitting for a living isn't good for your body. huh.

Hip flexors are the muscles that connect your legs to your hips in the front. Like at the very, very top of your thighs. So when you're sitting, they're shortened, when you do this they're lengthened:

Right, so sitting at a desk all day can make them shorten permanently. As can running etc. So I need to make them longer. ok. what does that mean?

Well it means doing stretches, and massages and stuff. And it means strengthening my butt. What? Yes. My butt being a dud is apparently a side effect of this. So because my butt sucks, my legs are doing more than their share = big quads? and my back is picking up the slack too = sore back and shooting hip pain? yes. and yes.

How did people live before the internet? Like how the hell would I have figured that out before google? Seriously, I was thinking of that the other day. April fool's in fact (because in grade 4 we had a research topic for 1 class to look up Loof Lirpa and find out everything we could about it/him or whatever. So we were in encyclopedias in the library and we had Encarta for the computer but there was no google. So we spent way way too long looking this up ineffectively, until class was over and teach told us it was April Fool backwards so we were all dumb. But if we had google we'd have known in 1 second.)

Righto, self diagnosis. me=genius.

So I'm doing all these bridges and stuff, really focusing on the old derriere. And doing some nice stretches (just google hip flexor stretch). And it's gonna make all my problems go away and yours too. And i'm going to be faster and stronger and prettier and more outgoing and funnier. Way way funnier. Because I'll come out of my shell, I mean it's taken quite a toll on my self esteem living with this dark shadow for so many years.