Ever heard the words abduction and adduction in relation to your workouts? These two similar-sounding terms describe opposite ...

Located on your inner thighs, the hip adductors are a group of five muscles—adductor brevis, adductor longus, adductor magnus, pectineus, and gracilis. Their primary function is to “adduct ...

It’s called the Copenhagen Hip Adduction—why, we’re not sure—and it’s one hell of a tough move. “This is great for the adductors, the obliques, and shoulders,” Thurman says.

Background The FIFA 11+ was developed as a complete warm-up programme to prevent injuries in football players. Although reduced hip adduction strength is associated with groin injuries, none of the ...

Therefore, a simple hip-adductor strengthening programme for prevention of groin injuries is needed. Objective We aimed to investigate the effect of an 8-week hip-adductor strengthening programme, ...