Inner Thigh

Teaching points

• Lay on your back with your knees bent and soles of your feet facing each other
  
  
• Place the ball in between your legs so your inner thighs are against the ball
  
  
• Squeeze the ball with your inner thighs and hold for 5 seconds
  
  
• Relax for up to 5 seconds and repeat

Variations and progressions

• Hold each rep for up to 10 seconds

Muscles worked

• Adductor Magnus
  
  
• Adductor Longus
  
  
• Adductor Brevis
  
  
• Pectineus

Alternative exercises

• Hip adduction using a resistance band
  
  
• Hip adduction using body weight
  
  
• Inner thigh machine

Related injuries

• Groin strain
  
  
• Gilmores groin