# @elastaboy on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYr3iNiPAwI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65875194-elastaboy-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/8721e3e9dc.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-05-23T15:00:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jake Blundell (@elastaboy) — https://gondola.cc/elastaboy

## Caption

Your hip flexors shorten by up to 30% after 6 hours of sitting. 4 exercises reverse the damage.

Sitting for eight hours a day doesn’t just make you stiff. It systematically shuts down the muscles that keep your hips functional.

Your hip flexors shorten into a permanently contracted position. Your gluteus maximus and gluteus medius stop firing because they’re compressed against a chair all day. Your deep external rotators lose their ability to stabilize the femur in the socket. The result is a hip joint that feels jammed, a pelvis that tilts forward, and a lower back that picks up all the slack. That’s the “9 to 5 body” and almost everyone reading this has some version of it.

This reel gives you four exercises that directly reverse desk damage: the 90/90 hip switch, the standing hip flexor march, the Cossack squat, and deep squat lateral shifts. Each one targets a specific layer of the problem, from shortened flexors to dormant glutes to locked rotators. Done consistently, you’re looking at hips that actually move the way they were designed to.

Save this for your next session.

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Drop BASICS in the comments. I’ll send you my Grade 1 Mobility programme. Pure follow-along, 15 minutes a day, designed for any starting level. No guesswork, just press play and copy what I do.

#Elastaboy #Reboryn #Mobility #HipMobility #DeskWorker TightHipFlexors

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## Tags

hipmobility, mobility, elastaboy, reboryn, deskworker

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