Sentences with phrase «which adductor»

Not exact matches

The one exception to this rule are strains of the adductor muscles, which are the muscles on the inside of the leg that are injured in a groin «pull.»

Call me Mr Last - Minute After being sidelined for six months which a severe adductor muscle complaint, livewire Dortmund attacker, Marco Reus, certainly has come back with a bang.

You'll finish off with side - lying hip adduction, which primarily targets the adductor longus muscle but also works the adductor minimus and brevis.

The adductor muscles include the adductor magnus, minimus, brevis and longus, which are located around your inner thigh region and are responsible for bringing your legs together, so they contract whenever you need to draw your leg toward your body's midline.

The hip thrust actually activates the hams, quads and adductors very thoroughly and efficiently as well, which makes it the perfect all - in - one exercise for building the entire thigh musculature.

This particular sequence goes through: ITB's, hamstrings, glutes then repeat on opposite leg; calves together (you can roll them individually when that gets easy by throwing the other leg on top, as shown); side of lower leg — muscles called the peroneals; tibialis anterior — shin area; inner thighs or adductors; quads; and last the TFL which is between your ITB and quad at the top of your leg just below your pelvis.

Or, you could get the best from both worlds with the sumo deadlift, which is kind of in the middle between these two and allows you to hit the quads, glutes, hams, adductors and lower back muscles.

Wider stance squats will also strengthen the adductors, which is another weakness many cyclists have.

You'll also feel tremendous glute and haunch engagement which is the key to power, and like I said, adductors are now contributing to hip flexion which powers that balance of the pelvis between the flexion and the extension that is key to running and athletic movement and it's key to lifting heavier weights.

While squats can strengthen your adductors, to really zero in on your inner thighs Trink recommends performing lateral lunges and exercise band movements in which the thighs move together against resistance.

However, your body needs strong adductors, which help your thighs move laterally, to perform just about any leg movement both in and out of the gym.

Last but not least some extra exercises that came as some runner ups were L - Sits, L - Sit Iron Crosses, Handstands Push ups, Squatting on the ends of the barbells for instability, and abductor adductor exercise in which you stand on the ends of the barbells and while using a spotter, spread your legs using abduction, and then squeeze your feet back together to a stand.

It's a closed - chain exercise, which simply - defined means that you're moving your body rather than the resistance (the opposite would be open - chain, which is what the adductor machine is where your limbs are moving the resistance).

Then do the same thing... use your adductors and hamstrings to pull your forward leg back, which brings you back up the standing position.

Aside from helping to prevent injuries, there's another reason: thanks to the good old 9 - 5 spent sitting on our tush, most people have weak glutes, tight hip flexors and tight hamstrings, which means if they dive straight into the exercises they don't target their glutes, but rather other muscles like the thighs (quadriceps in the front, adductors on the inside and hamstrings at the back).

This makes the adductor magnus the most effective hip extensor in hip flexion, which corresponds to the bottom of the squat movement.

However, the adductor magnus displayed a much greater moment arm length in 90 degrees of hip flexion than in full hip extension, which may indicate that this muscle has an important contributory role to hip extension moment in this position.

In addition, the hip adductors are subject to age - related atrophy in the elderly (Johnson et al. 2004), which makes programs designed to rehabilitate this muscle group important for both athletic and general populations.

Traditional (not force vector - specific) alternatives include trap bar deadlift jumps and jump squats, and these may also be necessary for developing the adductor magnus, which has a larger moment arm in greater hip flexion.

Puppies with this syndrome have weak adductor muscles which are responsible for pulling their legs together.