LIFT & STRETCH TOGETHER Reciprocal inhibition simply put is muscles working with and against each other to create movement. If muscles contract on a certain part of the body, there must be muscles that lengthen on another part of the body. There are isolated aspects of reciprocal inhibition and integrated aspects of reciprocal inhibition. For example, a more isolated form would be if the glute muscle contracts, then the hip flexors should lengthen. A integrated example of this would be the examp