Abductor/Adductor Strengthning Exercises for Track Athletes

In this video I will show you some exercises to help improve one's Abductors and some Adductor exercises using exercises that mainly focus on the use of Abduction and a slight bit of external rotation.

Your abductor and adductor muscles are in your hips and thighs, working in sync to enable you to move your legs sideways. Your abductor muscles are responsible for moving your leg away from your body's midline, while the adductors are responsible for moving the leg back towards your body's midline.

Anatomy, internal rotation (also known as medial rotation) is rotation towards the centre of the body. External rotation (or lateral rotation) is rotation away from the centre of the body.

The abductor's muscles are important guiding muscles in track events more so in Sprinting. and interact with the glutes on a number of different movements that are required in sprinting and running. They also make up the posterial chain.

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