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 look...