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#7 What The Heck- Abductor & Adductor

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Uploaded by on Jul 29, 2010

These two machines work the inner and outer thighs. The Adductor machine works the inner thigh while the Abductor machine works the outer part of your hips and glutes.

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  • The hip is really secondary since you are using ur thighs to pull and and pull out, but they are definitely being used and helps in strength and shape.

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  • This thing clusterfucked me for a whole weekend. Thursday I worked out and by accident played some outdoor hockey on Friday. Immobilized me for the entire weekend hahaha. Never again.

  • To specify: the abduction action is done by the gluteus medius and minimus, lesser glutes more on the outside that we are less familiar with.

    The better known gluteus maximi do not perform this action, they would probably help with the adduction movement if anything.

    She looks like she should slide the seat forward a bit so more of the knee joint is supported by the pad, it seems like there'd be a lot of pressure on her inner patella this way.

  • @SmashFit Wrong Smash, the hips can't be secondary in a HIP exercise. The muscles that act on the hip joint attach on the thighs and the pelvis, so it's really a false dichotomy asking which this hits more.

  • @MinasCrepes It builds both. These are exercises for the hip JOINT. The muscles that do it run from the thighs to the pelvis, so tissue is built on both places.

    As far as which it builds more on, that really depends on the muscle. A good comparison would be the brachialis and brachioradialis which are elbow flexors that assist the bicep. Both muscles run from the ulna to the humerus. The difference is that the brachialis has most mass on humerus, attaches high on ulna. BrachioRadia is opposite.

  • so it actually does not build the hip but just the inner and outer thighs?

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