Exercise
Cable Hip Adduction
Also known as: standing hip adduction, cable inner thigh, adductor pull
Cable Hip Adduction is a isolation exercise for the adductors. Main target: adductors. Also works: vastus medialis. Equipment: cable.
Muscles worked
How to do it
- Stand in front of a low pulley facing forward with one leg next to the pulley and the other one away.
- Attach the ankle cuff to the cable and also to the ankle of the leg that is next to the pulley.
- Now step out and away from the stack with a wide stance and grasp the bar of the pulley system.
- Stand on the foot that does not have the ankle cuff (the far foot) and allow the leg with the cuff to be pulled towards the low pulley. This will be your starting position.
- Now perform the movement by moving the leg with the ankle cuff in front of the far leg by using the inner thighs. Breathe out during this portion of the movement.
- Slowly return to the starting position as you breathe in.
- Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions and then repeat the same movement with the opposite leg.
Similar exercises
One-Legged Cable Kickback
Cable
Gluteus maximus
Cable Deadlifts
Cable
Vastus lateralisVastus medialisGluteus maximus
Pull Through
Cable
Gluteus maximus
Alternatives with other equipment
Thigh Adductor
Machine
Adductors
Copenhagen Plank
Bodyweight
Adductors
Adductor
Foam roll
Adductors
Lateral Box Jump
Other
Adductors
Plie Dumbbell Squat
Dumbbell
Vastus lateralisRectus femorisGluteus maximus
Barbell Deadlift
Barbell
Lower backGluteus maximusBiceps femoris
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