Adductors (Hip)
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Adductors - Muscles of the inner thigh that pull your legs together. They attach the pelvis and the femur (or thigh bone). You use these muscles when inline skating, skate skiing or swimming the breaststroke.
Adductors: Muscles that draw a part toward the medial line of the body.
ADP (Adenosine Diphospahate): A compound of adenosine containing two phosphoric acid groups. It is used to synthesize ATP with the energy released in cell respiration.
Adductors
Muscles that pull your legs together into the midline of the body.
Atrophy ...
Tight Adductors
Since women most often sit with crossed legs the adductor muscles commonly develop tightness especially in the bottom of a squat in which the hips are almost fully flexed.
Adductors superset with abductors
4 sets, Superset with weighted machine crunches, 4 sets
Glute Machine for my tight buns and da ladiez ...
The adductors are on your inner/upper legs and add a great deal of mass to your lower body! That's what this exercise works.
Hip Adductors
The 3 Adductors are used (especially in beginners) to control the width of your ski track, and strength here is very important.
The Adductors are the muscles of the inner thigh. This muscle group runs from the pelvis to the femur and tibia. The Adductors are composed of 5 muscles.
adductors, thigh several muscles located in the upper part of the inner thigh whose function is to pull the legs towards the midline.
Hip abductors and adductors - These are the muscles of the inner and outer thigh. The abductors are on the outside and move the leg away from the body. The adductors are on the inside and pull the leg across the centerline of the body.
Easy - every time you squat down, your adductors contract hard to stabilize the legs and hips.
In the video below, the model's adductors (inner thigh area) cave in towards each other on the first few practice reps. Don't allow that to happen. You'll see the model correct the issue once she performs the full 12 reps.
Shoulder flexors and adductors
Elbow extensors
Coach's Technique Checklist
Correct technique is very important when using weights, if you wish to avoid injury.
The quadriceps on the front of the thigh, the biceps femoris on the back of the thigh, the leg adductors on the inner side of the thigh, the leg abductors on the outer side of the thigh.
Inner thighs, also known as your adductors, can be isolated with leg adductions -- in simple terms, crossing one leg over the other.
At the gym ...
If you squat with a very wide stance, your adductors (inner thighs) tend to assist the quads. This can result in stress to the medial collateral ligament, abnormal cartilage loading, and improper patellar tracking.
Works the front (quadriceps) and back (hamstrings) of the thighs, the inner thighs (adductors), and buttocks (gluteus maximus).
Exercise: ...
Perform eight steps to the right and eight to the left.
Repeat the cycle four times.
Work your inner thighs or adductors by stepping out with one leg, and crossing the opposite leg in front of your lead foot.
Plyometric Training ...
work your abs, but for the biggest benefits, you need to work your entire core, which is made up of the four layers of the abs (rectus abdominis, external and internal obliques, and transverse abdominis), hip flexors, spine extensors, hip adductors ...
As a personal trainer, thereis one thing I am certain about - women like to have toned inner thighs! It is a problem area for most women. The muscles of the inner thighs, also called the hip adductors, respond to a very specific exercise routine. It..
The machine functions by allowing you to gradually increase the "stretch" in your adductors (inner-thigh muscles) through manual adjustments which increase the degree of the angle between the legs.
Do not swing your leg so hard that you cannot keep your upper body from moving.
4. Repeat for 10 full swings and repeat on other leg. 5. You can also swing your leg across your body stretching the abductors and adductors.
Hips - Hip adductors, abductors and flexors are smaller muscles used to push the legs from and pull them to the body. Sufficient work for the hip muscles can come from the compound weight lifting exercises for the leg as well as abdominal work.
Because even though the quadriceps reached total failure on the leg extension exercise, other lower body muscles that are used in a squat are still fresh and strong (glutes, hamstrings, adductors and different sections of the quadriceps group.) By ...
Gluteus medius and minimus - located at the side of the hip
Gluteus maximus, hamstring group, piriformis - located in the back of the hip and upper thigh leg.
Hip adductors - located at medial thigh.
 See also: Exercise, Lower, Glute, Work, Muscle group
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