Muscle imbalances including tight glutes, tight abs and weak hip flexors can cause our pelvis to tilt. These exercises can help.

Muscle tightness is the difficulty you have moving and can range from discomfort to cramping to pain and can be limiting, frustrating, and sometimes painful. It can be reduced by improving our posture, exercising, moving more, stretching and reducing stress.

Muscle tightness can range from a small sense of tension through to outright pain. It can be caused by prolonged inactivity or static activities such as typing, by stress and during and after exercise. Next time we will look at ways to reduce muscle tension.

Anterior pelvic tilt means it is tilted forward and is caused by shortened hip flexors and a lengthening of the hip extensors. Our sedentary lives can a major cause of type hip flexors. An anterior tilt forces our lower spine to curve leading to back pain and the leg bones to rotate in causing hip and knee pain. Here are some things you can do to help.

The delts are situated around the top of your upper and arm and shoulder. They help us lift and rotate your arm as well as working to stabilise our shoulders. The lateral deltoids are primarily responsible for this. Because of this they are also the muscle primarily responsible for any everyday activity where we push something upward like lifting shopping to a high shelf.