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Instead of doing this all the time and only getting relief from your tight hip flexors for only five minutes, try this instead. Set up in the door frame or just off the corner of a wall so that way one foot can be on the wall or the door frame with your shin parallel to the ground. This bottom foot is on the floor with a 90 degree angle in its knee bend relatively speaking. Allow your head to relax back. Feel these three ports of contact on both feet but focus on the downside. Now you're going to push through the ground as you subtly get your tailbone to tuck off of the floor as you move into a relative posterior pelvic tilt. Go to your genuine end range not where you feel like you have to arch your back to going higher. Once you get to your genuine end range you should feel a stretch in your hip flexor and also a little bit of your hamstring and glute engage. You could just hold this but I recommend you dynamically go in and out of reps of this. You may want to play around with the foot position and how close it is to you so that way you can better leverage a push into the floor. Also for some people it's helpful as you go up with this foot to think about dragging this heel down into the wall to accommodate that pelvis rotating back but also up. The reason why this works is it's teaching your foot to connect with the ground to move your hips into a position that's limited by tight hip flexors. Hip extension is the act of the leg coming underneath and behind the body. And flexion is the opposite of extension. So when the hip flexors on the front side of the body get tight they pull the leg and the pelvis closer together into hip flexion and hold it there. A half nearly hip flexor stretch does not educate our body how to properly push through the floor and actually move into a position of hip extension which should be occurring with every single step that we take.