Favorite Hip flexor stretch?

[tulip]

Any stretches that don't involve being on your knees?

Look at that YouTube video.

[jessmarimba]

Warrior 1 & 2. Make sure your front foot is as far forward as you can balance with the knee directly above the foot (so make sure the knee isn't coming forward of that foot)...you'll get a good stretch through the opposite hip flexor.

[snapdragen]

Look at that YouTube video.

Can't right now - youtube not allowed at work.

Warrior 1 & 2. Make sure your front foot is as far forward as you can balance with the knee directly above the foot (so make sure the knee isn't coming forward of that foot)...you'll get a good stretch through the opposite hip flexor.

That sounds too close to a lunge position, those aren't allowed either. Bad knees suck.

[OakLeaf]

The side lying one and the table lying one don't involve getting on your knees. The table lying one doesn't even require you to bend the knee of the leg you're stretching, other than just to relax the quads and let it hang.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I do fitness walking to keep my hip joints movable and non-aching.
When you fitness walk properly, the idea is not to lunge forward as you take each step, but rather the goal is to keep your back foot on the ground as long as possible before you bring it forward to take each new step. This stretches the leg back past the straight-with-the-back angle, like the guy hanging his leg down off the table in the stretching video. When I walk properly for 3 or 4 miles, I feel wonderfully afterwards and my hip joint areas feel really good.
I have found that biking won't do this at all, and if I only bike for fitness and ignore my walks, then after a couple of weeks my hips start feeling creaky and aching again.
Even when your leg in on the downstroke and your knee is almost straight while pedaling, your hip joint is still bent as though you are sitting, so it doesn't get your leg back to keep the hips fully flexible.
just my own experience.

[NbyNW]

Another variation on the tabletop stretch from Tulip's video, if you don't have a table, is to lie down with a thick, firm pillow under your hips so you can pike your legs in the air, then scissor one leg forward, one back. It's great if you have a friend to help you with the stretch, but if not you can just breathe into it and let gravity do the work.

If you don't have a pillow and your neck and shoulders can handle it, you can prop hips up with your elbows on the ground and hands on your butt. But that's a pretty extreme position and I don't think I get as much benefit out of it.