Are there good stretches for the Sartorius that I can do at home? In spinning class last night my right Sartorius became quite cranky after the first hour. It was not pain, but became very tight. Then I backed off, and it relaxed, picked up the pace, it tightened up again - pretty much the entire length of it. Arrrrgh! So I just relaxed and lightly spinned for the rest of the class. Things feel fine today.
I am pretty sure it happened due to the kind of exercises I did before my 90 minutes of spinning. I didn't do much in the way of heavy lower body work outside of two sets of leg presses - but I DID do a fair amount of lateral movement for my hips. I seem to remember this happening a few weeks ago - but I did not do so much lateral work that day so there was less of a problem.
Today I want to ride so badly I can taste it (before the storms arrive) but instead I am going to do some good stretching before heading out for the evening. I know of some good abductor/adductor/piriformis stretches that I will do, but didn't know if there is something else I can do that might specifically target that muscle.
I will be glad when I've more Pilates experience because I suspect that some of what we do there will help...
