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Keeping your legs together
One of my recurring issues is keeping my legs together when I paddle. I am mindful of keeping my knees touching, feet crossed, etc.. But I have a chronically tight left hip flexor and psoas and sometimes it feels like I am fighting against my body’s natural inclination to separate my legs while paddling.
Any suggestions on what I can do out of the water to help with this?
I’m thinking of maybe trying to hold a small ball between my knees and lie in the prone position. That and continue to stretch my psoas and hip flexors which I try to do several times a week.
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A bungee cord should fix your problem!
But in all seriousness, I do have this same problem and have yet to remedy it. I know for me it’s just going to be consciously thinking about it and hope that the habit sticks
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Hey Paul!
You definitely don’t need to keep your knees touching eachother if that’s what you meant – maybe i misinterpreted!
We do however want to keep our knees, at the very least, on the board and our feet within the width of the board
I have super tight hips but when I was younger I used to bend my knees whilst paddling, crossing my ankles and letting them hang over my hamstrings…
This was much softer on my hips-
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Thanks! Will give that a try next time I get out.
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