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Hip Adduction

Hip Adduction

Teaching points

  • Lay on your side on the floor, with the top leg either bent so that the foot is on the floor behind the knee of the bottom leg, or raised on an object as shown
  • Lift the bottom leg off the floor as high as possible, keeping the knee straight
  • Slowly lower the leg back to the starting position

Variations & progressions

  • Add an ankle weight to increase the resistance

Muscles worked

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