#179: Q&A: Inner thigh toning, the effectiveness of minimal equipment workouts, and muscle confusion
The Dr. Shannon Show
Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to fit body happy joints today I've got Dr. |
| 0:04.2 | Payton and Dr Jill with me we are going to do another installation of these little |
| 0:08.7 | Q&A episodes that you all have been loving so we're taking questions that we get from the community either on |
| 0:13.6 | Instagram or comments on our classes or dums or whatever it is and answer them. So let's |
| 0:19.5 | start with question number one. What Evello exercises work the adductors? |
| 0:25.0 | Good question. |
| 0:28.0 | We get this one, I feel like fairly often or kind of in waves, but one, answering the question just outright. |
| 0:36.0 | From an envelope perspective, pretty much any time we're doing single leg lute work, |
| 0:40.9 | quad work or hamstrings work, you're working the adductors as well. |
| 0:44.0 | Your adductors are your inner thighs. Some people might be saying, what is an adductor? |
| 0:48.0 | It's five adductor muscles that make up the inner thigh. |
| 0:52.0 | And whenever you're doing single leg glo the five adductor muscles that make up the inner thigh. |
| 0:53.0 | And whenever you're doing single leg glute work, |
| 0:55.4 | those adductors are working to make sure |
| 0:57.6 | that your knee isn't going, displaying out to the side. |
| 1:00.5 | It's pulling you back in towards center line. |
| 1:03.0 | When you're doing hamstring work like our kneeling hamstring curls |
| 1:07.0 | or even the chair hamstring bridges, |
| 1:11.1 | the adapter Magnus specifically will really get loaded because it runs right alongside the |
| 1:15.8 | medial hamstrings. |
| 1:17.1 | So pretty much anytime you're loading the hamstrings, those adductors are going to be |
| 1:20.2 | loaded as well, especially your really big adductor muscle. |
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