Cable Machine Exercises: Adduction

Video Transcript

"Adduction with the cable pulley system is going to require you to have some type of ankle apparatus on here to clip your weight on. We're working on inside thigh, so you want to make sure that you've got yourself in a stance where you're lifted right up to the top of the head. Find something that'll keep you from losing your balance. And again, we're just taking it and we're crossing it to the point of peak contraction without letting that posture come out of neutral. And contract and release. So it's a slight diagonal across the mid line of the body with the supporting leg slightly bent in that knee joint. Don't lock it out. It's not going to take a whole lot of weight that's going to keep that muscle to fatigue within that active range of motion. There's no sense in swinging out, we're not hitting adduction here. And as you can see, that basically involves low back. We want to keep that out of the picture and just to focus in on the inside thigh. Contract and release, contract and release, working with very short range of motion. Ten to fifteen reps, one to three sets."